Introducing Communication Research - International Student Edition

Paths of Inquiry

Author: Donald Treadwell and Andrea M. Davis

Introducing Communication Research - International Student Edition

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Teaching students the basics of communication research in an accessible manner, this fourth edition demystifies the theories and applications through its focus on methods in practice.

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Teaching students the basics of communication research in an accessible manner, this fourth edition demystifies the theories and applications through its focus on methods in practice.

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Introducing Communication Research: Paths of Inquiry teaches students the basics of communication research in an accessible manner by using interesting real-world examples, engaging application exercises, and up-to-date resources. Best-selling author Donald Treadwell and new co-author Andrea Davis guide readers through the process of conducting communication research and presenting findings for scholarly, professional, news/media, and web audiences.

New & Key Features

New vignettes introduce a theoretical or methodological topic using language and contexts that students new to research can easily comprehend.
New and updated content includes:
- "First Decisions": expanded discussion of basic research perspectives, worldviews, communication metatheories, and communication research traditions.
- Bibliographic research: new content on identifying and assessing fake news.
- Survey methodology: new content on "big data" and surveys.
Application exercises help students learn to make decisions about research practice.
Ethics panels with questions facilitate discussion of research ethics in practice.

About the Author

Donald Treadwell earned his master’s degree in communication from Cornell University and hisPhD in communication and rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.He developed and taught communication research classes in classroom and online settingsand also taught courses in organizational communication, public relations, and public relationswriting. He is the coauthor of Public Relations Writing: Principles in Practice (2nd ed., Sage,2005).He has published and presented research on organizational image, consumer response tocollege names, health professionals’ images of AIDS, faculty perceptions of the communicationdiscipline, and employers’ expectations of newly hired communication graduates. His researchappears in Communication Monographs, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, PublicRelations Review, Journal of Human Subjectivity, and Criminal Justice Ethics.He is professor emeritus, Westfield State University, and has international consulting experiencein agricultural extension and health communication.