Introducing communication research : paths of inquiry

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Treadwell, Donald (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousands Oaks, California : SAGE , c2014
Edition:2nd ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Getting started : possibilities and decisions
  • 2. First decisions : what, why, how?
  • 3. Ethics : what are my responsibilities as a researcher?
  • 4. Reading research : to boldly go where others have gone before
  • 5. Measurement : research using numbers
  • 6. Summarizing research results : data reduction and descriptive statistic
  • 7. Generalizing from research results : inferential statistics
  • 8. Sampling : who, what, and how many?
  • 9. Surveys : putting numbers on opinions
  • 10. Experiments : researching cause and effect
  • 11. Watching and listening : qualitative research for in-depth understanding
  • 12. Content analysis : understanding text and image in numbers
  • 13. Rhetorical and critical analyses : understanding text and image in words
  • 14. Writing and presenting research