For all courses in criminal justice.
This comprehensive book is designed to accompany the primary text in any criminal justice class where writing is emphasized, or can be used as an excellent primary text for a criminal justice course in writing administrative and technical reports.
The Criminal Justice Student Writer's Manual, 6e is designed to help students learn how to research and write in criminal justice, and improve their writing ability in general. While helping students with every aspect of the writing process–formatting, source citations, grammar, sentence structure, research, and utilizing available sources–it relieves instructors from the time consuming job of teaching these skills, and allows them to concentrate on the subject matter of the course they are teaching. This book is the most comprehensive book on the market that deals specifically with writing criminal justice papers. It gives specific directions for writing a variety of papers in criminal justice, from introductory to advanced, while also providing instructions on “how to write,” and how to format the paper and cite sources following the American Sociological Association’s and the American Psychological Association’s guidelines. There is really no other book on the market that provides the comprehensive directions to writing papers in criminal justice that are found in The Criminal Justice Student Writer’s Manual.
Teaching and Learning Experience
This comprehensive manual can be used throughout the reader's college and professional careers to help improve research and writing skills. It provides:
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A writing manual designed for the criminal justice field: Includes common types of criminal justice papers
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Coverage of the writing process, grammar, writing mechanics and page formatting:
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Coverage of the research process: Focuses on strategies and effective research methods
Features
A writing manual designed for the criminal justice field:
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Teaches students how to research and write in criminal justice—relieves professor from having to teach these skills while still allowing writing to be an important part of the course
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Gives students a discipline-specific guide—shows students how to become competent writers in their field
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Fulfills the need for clear, direct communication in an increasingly complex criminal justice system—makes students more valuable in whatever line of work they pursue
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Introduces students to common criminal justice papers—includes reaction papers, article critiques, police reports, agency case studies, and policy analysis papers
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NEW! Examples of police reporting and writing probation and parole reports—Included in Chapter 12
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UPDATED! Material on criminal justice on the world wide web—provided in Chapter 7
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REVISED! Chapter 14, Criminal Justice Policy Analysis Papers—extensively revised
Coverage of the writing process, grammar, writing mechanics and page formatting:
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Offers solid coverage of basic writing techniques—provides a quick and useful reference students will use throughout college and their careers
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A valuable aid for criminal justice teachers who believe their students should be competent writers—makes assigning papers easier than ever
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Demonstrates proper paper formats and citations—explains the importance of formatting the research paper properly (the title page, table of contents, etc.), along with citing and referencing sources using the American Sociological Association’s Style Guide and the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
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UPDATED! Material on Citing Sources in ASA Style in Chapter 4 and updated material on Citing Sources in APA Style in Chapter 5—keeps students current
Coverage of the research process:
