Research Across the Disciplines: An Introduction
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2019
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2019
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Doing research is like being a detective. Both researchers and detectives are trying to find out something. Both are asking and answering questions. Both are trying to put together a puzzle to come up with a solution. In both, answering questions leads to more questions. And, in both, seeing patterns is crucial to solving the puzzle.
Research Across the Disciplines: An Introduction provides students with information about the foundations of research methods, the choices as scholars make, and the methodological decisions driving to balance the desire to know and inquire into interesting communication questions while instilling an enthusiasm about the process.
Preface
About the Contributors
CHAPTER 1
Approaches to Research: Why Point of View Matters
CHAPTER 2
Reviewing and Sourcing Material: Narrowing Your Topic
CHAPTER 3
Praxis: How Theory Informs Action and Research
CHAPTER 4
Ethics in Research: Essential Conversation
CHAPTER 5
The Sciences: A Survey of Approaches
CHAPTER 6
The Humanities: A Survey of Approaches
CHAPTER 7
The Creative Arts: A Survey of Approaches
CHAPTER 8
Designing a Research Proposal: Writing the Script
Index
Dr. Kristen Hark is an Assistant Professor of Corporate Communication at Penn State Lehigh Valley. She has worked with and studied communication for over 20 years and talked with people for even longer. All that communication led her to understand that the heart of communication, whether strategic, philosophical, interpersonal, or digital, relies on the understanding of bias so that we can week and engage people with differing, and at times competing, worldviews. Through years of teaching, speaking, and researching, Dr. Hark has become increasingly motivated to reach people three things: that “it’s not the critic who counts,” that the process should never be wasted, and that healthy, interdisciplinary communication can make an incredible difference.
Why this specific research project? Because Dr. Hark believes that well-supported ideas inform constructive dialogue and that theory IS practical and that both the academy and marketplace are better for it.
Dr. Hark is dedicated to the belief that we can be, and should be, life-long learners; that there is a process to learning well, and it begins with a commitment to well-supported ideas.