Communications Project Plan
For your final project in this course, you are to present a communications study or research proposal and post in our Blog Forum (right below this instructions). You may use any of the following virtual presentation tools:
1) PowerPoint presentation with your voice insertion.
2) Voice thread (visit: www.voicethread.psu.edu)
3) Jing screen cast by subscribing to a free Jing account from www.techsmith.com
Your project study or research proposal should address the following:
1. What topic or issue in Communication? Will it be an issue on interpersonal communication or an issue on organizational or mass media?
2. Why? [explain the rationale or reasons why you believe the study would be beneficial and significant to society]
3. What research questions do you hope to answer about the communication issue you have chosen for your study?
4. What communication theories would most likely fit in and would be helpful to explain the questions about the communication issue you are going to study
5. In addition to conducting a literature review, what research methodology would you use in order to gather data for your study? Choose one or a combination of two or more from the following methods:
a. Interviews (online or face to face or both)
b. Survey (online or face to face or both)
c. Case study method
d. Experimental
e. Participant Observation
Submit your write - up in the Drop Box and POST your presentation link in the blog forum thread below.
For your final project in this course, you are to present a communications study or research proposal and post in our Blog Forum (right below this instructions). You may use any of the following virtual presentation tools:
1) PowerPoint presentation with your voice insertion.
2) Voice thread (visit: www.voicethread.psu.edu)
3) Jing screen cast by subscribing to a free Jing account from www.techsmith.com
Your project study or research proposal should address the following:
1. What topic or issue in Communication? Will it be an issue on interpersonal communication or an issue on organizational or mass media?
2. Why? [explain the rationale or reasons why you believe the study would be beneficial and significant to society]
3. What research questions do you hope to answer about the communication issue you have chosen for your study?
4. What communication theories would most likely fit in and would be helpful to explain the questions about the communication issue you are going to study
5. In addition to conducting a literature review, what research methodology would you use in order to gather data for your study? Choose one or a combination of two or more from the following methods:
a. Interviews (online or face to face or both)
b. Survey (online or face to face or both)
c. Case study method
d. Experimental
e. Participant Observation
Submit your write - up in the Drop Box and POST your presentation link in the blog forum thread below.