Introduction to Communication Theory COMM 230 - Resource Guide
Introduction to theory, methodology, analysis and criticism. Skills learned in this course are the beginning foundation of those required to complete the capstone course and the major senior project.
Research and reference resource for journals in communication, mass media and other closely-related fields of study. Both full-text articles and abstracts.
This program discusses the concepts of source, message, channel, receiver, encoding, decoding, noise, and feedback. It also considers context,filters, paralanguage, and nonverbal communication.
Literature Reviews Made Easy by Paula DawidowiczThis book is designed to help you achieve one specific goal. It's not designed to give you the philosophies of conducting research. It's not designed to give you a background in a specific academic discipline or a specific topic. It's not designed to give you theory. It's designed specifically to instruct you in the practicalities of the writing process used to create strong, thorough, and potentially bulletproof literature reviews. This book is the culmination of years of research experience. It's also the culmination of several years of teaching writing and critical thinking to doctoral students. Although it began as a tool for doctoral students, it has been expanded to be useful for everyone from senior high school students through doctoral candidates working on developing their first literature review or a larger literature review than they normally develop. It has been created for everyone from academics to new business entrepreneurs with good ideas who are trying to write their first reviews to support the new idea they're proposing.
This book is a step-by-step guide to writing a literature review, and includes tips for modifying the process as needed depending on your audience, purpose, and goals. The lessons in this book can be applied to writing the background section for a thesis or an original research publication.