A Customized Version of Straight Talk about Communication Research Methods: Designed Specifically for Andrea Scott at the University of Central Florida
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 364
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 364
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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
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