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Introducing Communication Research Fourth Edition For Charlotte, James and Joseph Luke and Owen And for Kristina Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. Table of contents : Half Title Acknowledgements Publisher Note Title Page Copyright Page Brief Contents Detailed Contents List of Exhibits Preface 1 Getting Started: Possibilities and Decisions 2 First Decisions: From Inspiration to Implementation 3 Ethics: What Are My Responsibilities as a Researcher? 4 You Could Look It Up: Reading, Recording, and Reviewing Research 5 Measurement: Research Using Numbers 6 Sampling: Who, What, and How Many? 7 Summarizing Research Results: Data Reduction and Descriptive Statistics 8 Generalizing From Research Results: Inferential Statistics 9 Surveys: Putting Numbers on Opinions 10 Experiments: Researching Cause and Effect 11 Quantitative Understanding of Content: Content Analysis 12 Qualitative Understanding of Content: Rhetorical and Critical Analyses, and More 13 Qualitative Understanding of Communication Behavior:Interviews, Focus Groups, and Ethnography 14 Research Results in Print and Online: Writing and Presenting for Scholarly and Other Publics: ASA Comments Glossary Index About the Authors Citation preview
