Com300 week 2 Research Study Analysis

Com300 week 2 Research Study Analysis

Subject: General Questions / General General Questions
Question
Complete this Research Study Analysis by 11:59 p.m. ET Sunday, Week 2. You can submit it using the “Upload” button below or directly to your assignment folder through “Assignments” in the blue navbar at the top of your classroom screen. (Worth 10% of your final grade.)

For this assignment, you will analyze a research study that was published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. This study is typical of how communication research findings are presented in scholarly journals. It follows a set pattern that all research studies in the empirical tradition follow, so you will look more at its “structure” than its content.

Go to “The Impact of Language Variety and Expertise on Perceptions of Online Political Discussions.”

Write a 1,050-word essay in which you describe the study based on the major headings used in the article. Make sure your essay includes answers to these questions:

* What is a literature review? What does it do?

* What terms are defined?

* How many hypotheses are there?

* Where does the Research Methodology appear in the study?

* How many cases or subjects were there in the study?

* How many hypotheses were supported by the data?

* Where are the “conclusions” given in the research paper?

(You will likely be baffled by the statistical analyses used on the data collected by the researchers unless you have had a few courses in statistics. You can skip this section of the study.)

Finally, analyze what you learned about the study. Based on what you have read in our course content, was this study well designed? Why or why not? Make sure to support all your claims with directly quoted, summarized and paraphrased material from your course resources that you have properly cited with APA-style in-text citations and end-of-text references.

Research Study Analysis Rubric

Element

Yes / No

List the study’s elements

What is a literature review? What does it do? Explain.

List the terms that are defined

Where does the Research Methodology appear in the study? How many cases or subjects were there in the study?

How many hypotheses are there? They are usually written H1, H2, H3, etc.

Where are the “conclusions” given in the research paper?

Based on what you have read in the course content, was this study well designed? Why or why not?

~1,050-word essay

College-level grammar

APA-style documentation

Total: 10 points ea.

Grade: / 100%