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What is communication? - correct answer Using symbols to establish and interpret meaning What is communication inquiry? - correct answer Learning how to study messages What is research? - correct answer Systematic exploration What are research methods? - correct answer Strategies (for systematic exploration) What are strategies for systematic exploration of messages called? - correct answer Communication research methods What are the five phases of the research model? - correct answer Conceptualization, Planning (and designing), Methodologies, Analyzing (and interpreting data), Reconceptualization What are the three approaches to communication research? - correct answer Rhetorical, Critical/Cultural, Social Science What is a personal belief about what is real or "reality" called? - correct answer Ontology What is your belief about how we can know reality called? - correct answer Epistemology (dependent on ontology) What are they ways you try to find out about reality called? - correct answer Methodology What type of epistemology believes reality is independent of our perception of it? - correct answer Objectivist What type of epistemology believes reality is our perception of the world? - correct answer Subjectivist What are the two ends of the epistemological spectrum? - correct answer Objectivist, subjectivist What were the first paid teachers who taught rhetoric in Athens called? - correct answer Sophists Who coined the term Sophist? - correct answer Aristotle What are the three requirements for something to be rhetoric? Must be a(n): - correct answer (as an) action, symbolic action, human action What is rhetorical criticism? - correct answer Systematic analysis What does an act become when it's been recorded? - correct answer Rhetorical artifact The purpose of studying rhetoric is not to learn about the _________, but to learn about the _________ - correct answer artifact, argument/process What focuses on marxist ideas, like the relationship between the rich and the poor, or between gender and race? - correct answer Critical Cultural Studies What is it called since CCS uses aspects from multiple fields to study? - correct answer Interdisciplinary What is it called since CCS cannot ask and answer questions from just one field? - correct answer Transdisciplinary What is Burkes view that all aspects of communication can be seen as parts that compose a dramatic event called? - correct answer Dramatism What are the five parts of Burke's pentad? - correct answer Act (what took place), Scene (background), Agent (who acted), Agency (instruments used), Purpose (goal of act) Who believed that stories are dramatic arguments we use to persuade people to believe our version of life's drama? - correct answer Burke What is a non-directional question that does not predict outcome? - correct answer Research question What is a predicted, directional question? - correct answer Hypothesis What are the five main sections of a research paper? - correct answer Introduction and preview, literature review, method, results, discussion and conclusion What does introduction and preview section cover? - correct answer Who needs to know what and why, connects IV and DV What does literature review section cover? - correct answer Examines methods of previous research, presents new (research) question (or hypothesis) What does method section cover? - correct answer Explain specific procedures, how IV and DV were put into observable terms What does results section cover? - correct answer Discusses (quantitative or qualitative) results What does discussion and conclusion section cover? - correct answer interpret findings, discuss limitation and potential future research, summarizes and closes The _______ ____ is the number of times an article is used as a source - correct answer Citation rate The _______ _____ is the number of published articles over the number of submitted articles - correct answer Acceptance rate The _______ _____ is the number of recent cites over the number of articles used over the number of items - correct answer Impact fac