Communication Research Methods
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Research - correct answer ✔✔Asking things in a specific way.
Theory - correct answer ✔✔Any organized state of concepts, explanations, and principles of
some aspect of human experience.
What is the relationship between research and theory? - correct answer ✔✔Research leads to
theory leads to research...
Ontology - correct answer ✔✔Philosophic assumptions about the nature of being.
Epistemology - correct answer ✔✔How do we know what we know.
Axiology - correct answer ✔✔The study and theorizing of value.
Paradigm: Knowing by Interpretation - correct answer ✔✔Social construction, reflexivity,
context (not general). Goal: Understanding how meaning is created
Paradigm: Knowing by Criticism - correct answer ✔✔Analyzes the mechanisms of social value
and power. Power, subjectivity, structure. Goal: social change
Paradigm: Knowing by Discovery - correct answer ✔✔Define a concept in measurable terms
(operationalization- defining a concept). CH: Precise (operationalization), systematic (scientific
method), repetitive (replicability). Goal: generalizability
, Parts of a Research Report - correct answer ✔✔1. Abstract
2. Review of previously published literature
3. Methods
4. Results or Findings
5. Discussion
Abstract - correct answer ✔✔A single paragraph of about 100 words that provides readers with
an overview of the study
Literature Review - correct answer ✔✔Scrutinize previously published academic research
studies that are most closely related to your current project.
Methods - correct answer ✔✔Contains descriptions of the researchers data sources, settings,
data collection, and analytic strategies.
Results and Discussion v. Findings - correct answer ✔✔R and D for quantitative and separate,
Findings for qualitative. In relation to hypothesis.
Data - correct answer ✔✔Direct evidence or grounds for a claim
Warrant - correct answer ✔✔Reasons for making a particular claim in view of specific evidence.
The standards used to evaluate whether particular evidence is a good way to support a claim.
Paradigm - correct answer ✔✔Different perspectives or ways of knowing. Dictionary: A
conceptual or methodological model underlying the theories and practices of a science or
discipline at a particular time; (hence) a generally accepted world view.
EXAM 1 questions well solved already
passed
Research - correct answer ✔✔Asking things in a specific way.
Theory - correct answer ✔✔Any organized state of concepts, explanations, and principles of
some aspect of human experience.
What is the relationship between research and theory? - correct answer ✔✔Research leads to
theory leads to research...
Ontology - correct answer ✔✔Philosophic assumptions about the nature of being.
Epistemology - correct answer ✔✔How do we know what we know.
Axiology - correct answer ✔✔The study and theorizing of value.
Paradigm: Knowing by Interpretation - correct answer ✔✔Social construction, reflexivity,
context (not general). Goal: Understanding how meaning is created
Paradigm: Knowing by Criticism - correct answer ✔✔Analyzes the mechanisms of social value
and power. Power, subjectivity, structure. Goal: social change
Paradigm: Knowing by Discovery - correct answer ✔✔Define a concept in measurable terms
(operationalization- defining a concept). CH: Precise (operationalization), systematic (scientific
method), repetitive (replicability). Goal: generalizability
, Parts of a Research Report - correct answer ✔✔1. Abstract
2. Review of previously published literature
3. Methods
4. Results or Findings
5. Discussion
Abstract - correct answer ✔✔A single paragraph of about 100 words that provides readers with
an overview of the study
Literature Review - correct answer ✔✔Scrutinize previously published academic research
studies that are most closely related to your current project.
Methods - correct answer ✔✔Contains descriptions of the researchers data sources, settings,
data collection, and analytic strategies.
Results and Discussion v. Findings - correct answer ✔✔R and D for quantitative and separate,
Findings for qualitative. In relation to hypothesis.
Data - correct answer ✔✔Direct evidence or grounds for a claim
Warrant - correct answer ✔✔Reasons for making a particular claim in view of specific evidence.
The standards used to evaluate whether particular evidence is a good way to support a claim.
Paradigm - correct answer ✔✔Different perspectives or ways of knowing. Dictionary: A
conceptual or methodological model underlying the theories and practices of a science or
discipline at a particular time; (hence) a generally accepted world view.
