BookKurt Lindemann.
Summary: "Writing is an aspect often overlooked in the quest to provide students with the necessary skills to embark on a career in the increasingly important field of communication. For many students, putting one's thoughts and understanding of a topic onto paper can be a daunting task. Composing Research, Communicating Results: Writing the Communication Research Paper provides communication students with the knowledge and necessary tools to compose a variety of course-required papers that are scholarly, accessible, and well-written. Chapter coverage includes common myths associated with writing a research paper, brainstorming and researching topics, making and supporting arguments, style and formatting issues, writing the literature review, application and personal reaction papers, empirical research papers, presenting and publishing your work, and more. Each stage of the process is broken down into easy-to-follow steps supported by writing exercises and numerous examples drawn from published and student-written papers in the field. Composing Research, Communicating Results: Writing the Communication Research Paper fulfils an important and underserved niche in the classroom curricula, and is an essential resource for all students in communications-related courses"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
1. So you have to write a research paper...
2. Brainstorm and research: formulating and answering questions
3. Making arguments, providing support
4. Style and format: how to say what you want to say
5. Writing the literature review: arguing for audiences
6. Application and reaction papers
7. Writing empirical research papers
8. What next? Presenting and publishing papers.