This sociology course examines academic writings and publications connecting the social construction of narrative by embracing a multi-purpose perspective on writing as it relates to the process of becoming a manuscript. We will explore ways to see how the monographic infrastructure (sentence, paragraph, chapter, blurb), is woven together by linking the unity of science and art through various linguistic architectures. The course will highlight the social function of the storyteller, the nature of anecdotes and the making of field notes from concept to the finely textured book-in-text. We use current manuscripts and other forms of academic writing (e.g. articles, book proposals and grants) as the skeletal text paradigm which sets the foundational structure for the book and discuss scenes, characters, analysis, cover design and document the inner workings as they evolve in the making of the book. “A book has its absolute truths in its own time. It is lived like a riot or a famine, with much less intensity, of course, and by fewer people, but in the same way. It is an emanation of intersubjectivity, a living bond or rage, hatred, or love between those who have produced it and those who receive it.” Jean Paul Sartre