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Bryman: Social Research Methods: 3e

Chapter 27

http://www.kent.ac.uk/psychology/studying/studyskills/writeup.htm
This an entertaining, relatable and encouraging article to read if you are faced with the task of writing up your research and feel stuck! Dr Andrew Colman wrote this paper for the British Psychological Society postgraduate students’ newsletter in 1993, and it has been reproduced online by staff at the University of Kent. Colman addresses some of the anxieties you might have about writing and provides some useful practical tips that will help you to plan a successful research report.

http://www.rdinfo.org.uk/flowchart/Dissemination.htm
This link considers "writing up” research in a more general way, including preparation of presentations as well as academic papers. It provides practical help (usually through other links) at every stage of the writing process. The resource is a portion of "The Research Process Flowchart”, which is available at http://www.rdinfo.org.uk. All of these resources are produced by the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals for the National Institute for Health Research.

http://sru.soc.surrey.ac.uk/SRU5.html
This “update” paper (also included in the web links for Chapter 17) provides a useful overview of the debates surrounding writing about ethnographic research. Martyn Hammersley from the Open University summarizes some of the key texts about ethnographic writing, such as the works of Atkinson, Clifford, Denzin, Geertz and Van Maanen. It also serves as a helpful example of how to write a short literature review!

http://www.britsoc.co.uk/equality/
Bryman stresses the need to avoid "sexist, racist, and disablist language” when writing up your research and refers to this website (p663).  Downloads are available in ’word’ format to guide our writing according to different headings.  All are interesting and useful.  You should refer to your own institution’s ethical guidelines and your research proposal to see if this website is likely to contain essential advice for your own work.

http://www.sociology.org/content/vol001.002/fox.html
This is an interesting article, written by Nicholas J. Fox at the University of Sheffield. It considers the impact of postmodernist social theory upon writing in the social sciences, and in particular the way in which texts can be deconstructed and reconstructed in “layers”.