CS235 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Critical Discourse Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Literature Review
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Study of verbal and nonverbal communication including a range of modes and systems, processes and technology of communication through systematic research. Many approaches of communications; rhetorical, historical and critical and humanistic, scientifically/ epical traditional disciplines in canada: anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, sociology, communication studies interdisciplinary. Professional associations: connect scholars with shared interests, researchers asses each other to see if they should receive scholarship. Communication research triangle: top point- social sciences, bottom left- arts and humanities, bottom right- natural sciences, communications is in the middle. All methods of inquiry about communication: study how humans encode, transmit and receive symbols to influence one another, follow certain prescribed rules, involve collection and analysis of data, begin by asking a question about something unknown- change lives! Purposes of research: making a generalization about similar phenomenon, observing a group and making a generalization, making a judgement. Easily engage in error if research is not done right.
