Research Process Overview and Understanding of Literature Review

Research should be:

    • Empirical
    • Systematic
    • Intersubjective and replicable
    • Cyclical and self-correcting

Research terms you should know:

  • Relationship
  • Variable
  • Prediction
  • Unit of analysis
  • Unit of observation  
  • Nomethetic
  • Ideographic
  • Quantitative vs. qualitative
  • Bias – systematic distortion
  • Objective
  • Replication
  • Triangulation

Other questions to consider about the research process/paper:

1. Under what circumstances can you make claims about causality in your findings?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COM 582 Descriptive and Experimental Research in Communication

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