Research Methods in Communication (390)

Fall 2016 Syllabus

Lecture Fill-Ins

• Background Research
• APA Formatting & Research Papers
• Research Basics
• Reliability & Validity & Error
• 1 Qualitative Basics
• 2 Qualitative Methods
• Quantitative Basics & Methods
• Finding Participants & Sampling
• Doing Experiments
• Doing Surveys
• IRB
• IVs/Focus Grps/Observations
• 1 Qualitative Data
• 2 Coding
• 1 Descriptive Data Info
• 2 Descriptive Data SPSS
• 1 Relational Data Info
• 2 Relational Data SPSS
• 1 Difference Data Info
• 2 Difference Data SPSS
• Methods/Results/Discussion

Activities/Assignments

• Syllabus Quiz
• CITI Training Instructions
• APA #1
• APA #2
• Data Collection Project Instructions
• Extra Surveys
• Extra Consent Forms
• Survey Coding Template
• FAKE DATA for Stats Assignments
• Descriptives Assignment
• Relationships Assignment
• Differences Assignment
• Final Methods Paper

Readings

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• Tramifow (2014)
• Huff (1954) Ch. 1 & Ch. 4
• Jackson et al. (2007)
• Robinson (2014)
• Babbie (1990)
• Danko (2013)
• Herschberger (1948)
• Huff (1954) Ch. 8

Study Guides

• Mini-Quiz #1
• Mini-Quiz #2
• Mini-Quiz #3
• Mini-Quiz #4
• Mini-Quiz #5
• Mini-Quiz #6