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18 Cards in this Set
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The systematic inquiry into a subject. Points to the need to examine topics methodically rather than to plunge haphazardly into sources
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RESEARCH
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A process by which people arrive at shared meanings through the interchange of messages.
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COMMUNICATIONS
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Concerned with mediated communication and how people fulfill their entertainment or information needs by using technologies such as computers, cell phones, MP3 players, and digital devices.
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COMMUNICATION & TECHNOLOGY
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Communication in groups of three or more persons. Researchers often study how groups emerge, accomplish their goals, and solve problems, and how group leaders function.
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GROUP COMMUNICATION
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Includes all aspects of illness and wellness; effectiveness of health promotion and information campaigns, communication between health care providers and patients...
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HEALTH COMMUNICATION
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Focuses on pedagogy, media effects and communication in the classroom.
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INSTRUCTIONAL COMMUNICATION
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Some focus on how people from different cultures communicate and others compare people's behaviors across different cultures. Compares national communication systems and examines their impact on national growth and progress
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INTERCULTURAL & INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION
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The study of people and their interactions or relationships. Researchers study the use of verbal and nonverbal messages in developing and maintaining relationships between people.
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INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
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Concerened with the verbal and nonverbal communication codes. Focus is on how language and nonverbal symbols are transmitted, received and come to have meaning for people of the same or different courses.
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LANGUAGE & SYMBOLIC CODES
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Communication from a source or organization to many people via mediated channels sch as television, radio, or newspapers under conditions of limited feedback
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MASS COMMUNICATION
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Concerned with the processing and use of messages between and within organizations. Focuses on the complexities of communication in formal structures where many interpersonal and group relationships already exist.
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ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION
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communication in nonmediated public settings and focuses mainly on one to many communication. Topics include rhetoric, public address, criticism, freedom of speech, persuasion, argumentation and debate
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PUBLIC COMMUNICATION
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1. Select, narrow and adjust topic
2. Identify types of sources needed 3. select appropriate databases and other access tools 4. decide what types of searches to do 5. formulate the search 6. examine the results and modify the search 7. evaluate and summarize information 8. read materials thoroughly, taking careful notes and highlighting important sections 9. systematically document everything 10. know when to stop |
The 10 steps of Search Strategy
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the major vehicles for reporting current studies conducted by academic and professional researchers. Usually edited and published by a learned society.
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SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
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These publications emphasize news of events, issues and innovations in the field. Contains articles on new technologies, advertising campaigns, news about people in the industry and professional events.
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PROFESSIONAL & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
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An objective, systematic, empirical, and cumulative process by which we seek to solve theoretical problems and applied problems.
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RESEARCH
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1. Posing and developing a problem in need of a solution
2. reviewing past research and writings about this problem 3. identifying worthy questions that investigators have not yet answered 4. devising the best method to seek answers to these questions 5. sampling the population to gather the necessary information to answer these questions 6. analyzing that information in a valid and reliable manner 7. presenting the results of the inquiry 8. considering the meaning and implications of these results to expand our knowledge of the problem or the underlying theory |
The 8 Stages of Research
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an educated guess or prediction about the relationship between two or more variables.
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HYPOTHESIS
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