A Customized Version of Straight Talk about Communication Research Methods: Designed Specifically for Andrea Scott at the University of Central Florida

Chapter 1—What Is Communication Research?

Chapter 2—Discovering What’s Already Known: Library Research

Chapter 3—Writing a Literature Review

Chapter 4—Understanding Research Ethics

Chapter 5—Research Questions and Hypotheses

Chapter 6—Understanding Variables

Chapter 7—Sampling

Chapter 8—Experiments

Chapter 9—Survey Research

Chapter 10— Quantitative Analysis of Text and Words: Content and Interaction Analysis

Chapter 11—Qualitative Approaches to Communication Studies Research

Chapter 12—Collecting Qualitative Data

Chapter 13—Ensuring Validity, Reliability, and Credibility

Chapter 14— Writing, Analyzing, and Critiquing Quantitative and Qualitative Research

Appendix A—Writing Research Proposals

Appendix B—Random Number Table

Appendix C— How Your Objective, Research Question, and/or Hypothesis Relates to

Your Methodology

Appendix D— Moving Away and Reaching Out: Young Adults’ Relational Maintenance

and Psychosocial Well-Being During the Transition to College

Appendix E— Why Are You Dating Him? Contemporary Motives for Workplace Romances

Appendix F—Advantages and Disadvantages of Sampling Methods