Communication Studies Books

Enables readers to compare three approaches to research - qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. This book presents the preliminary steps of using philosophical assumptions; discusses ethical issues; emphasizes Web-based technologies for literature searches; and offers information about mixed methods research procedures.

Focuses on helping practitioners conduct research in their own organisations. This work pays attention to the theoretical, political and organisational context of doing research, as well as addressing the ethical and practical issues of undertaking research.

Many ageing adults are motivated to undertake research projects in later life or even return to university after retirement. This book studies the effectiveness of collaborative research involving seniors.

Focuses on core topics in quantitative communication research ranging from basic statistical procedures (such as frequency distributions) to more advanced procedures (such as multiple regression). This book also features annotated excerpts from research journal articles illustrating the use of various procedures.

Nonresponse is a threat to the statistical integrity of surveys and active research programs. This volume offers coverage of research in the field of survey nonresponse, the primary threat to the statistical integrity of surveys.

Offers a comprehensive presentation of the design and use of the case study method as a valid research tool.

Offers a road map to those who wish to use calendar and diary methods in their own research. This book is suitable for graduate students and researchers who are interested in calendar and diary methods and who hail from fields such as sociology, psychology, nursing, communication, and education.

Non-linear analysis is a field characterised by a mixture of analysis, topology, and applications. Its concepts and techniques provide tools for developing realistic models for a variety of phenomena encountered in fields ranging from engineering and chemistry to economics and biology. This book presents research from around the globe.

Explores a range of issues that address the challenges of designing and executing high quality applied research and evaluation studies. This book offers an understanding of the philosophical, theoretical, methodological, political, and ethical dimensions of gathering credible evidence to answer fundamental research and evaluation questions.

Designing Effective Web Surveys is a practical guide to designing Web surveys, based on empirical evidence and grounded in scientific research and theory.

Designing Effective Web Surveys is a practical guide to designing Web surveys, based on empirical evidence and grounded in scientific research and theory.

Offers an overview of the logic modeling process as applied to numerous organizational contexts. This book examines the structures, processes, and language of logic models as a tool that improves the design, development, and implementation of change efforts within programs and greater organizational initiatives.

Covers how to organize data for analysis, for example, create a code book. This title teaches how to create reports and present them using computers. It includes coverage of human subjects protections - which is an issue about which surveyors must know. It prepares researchers and students to employ the Internet and e-mail in their work.

Suitable for those who work in teaching and learning in universities, this book illustrates what might be done to improve teaching/supporting learning by carrying out action research. It offers readers practical advice on how to research their own practice in a higher education context.

Offers an understanding of the history, theory, philosophy, and implementation of applied social research ethics. This book addresses those ethical issues that arise in the theory and practice of research within the technologically advancing and culturally complex world in which we live. It is suitable for researchers and practitioners.

Presents information and examples from the field of survey research. This encyclopedia covers various facets of survey research methodology, from selecting the sample design and the sampling frame, designing and pretesting the questionnaire, data collection, and data coding, to the thorny issues surrounding diminishing response rates.

Presents a simple and general model for statistical power analysis that is based on the F statistic. This book includes a chapter on Complex ANOVA Designs that demonstrates the use of power analysis in split-plot and randomized block factorial designs. It is suitable for students in the social, behavioral, and health sciences.

Offers information about various aspects of survey research and features coverage of online surveys. This book is suitable for researchers who are seeking to increase response rates and obtain high-quality feedback from survey questions.

Covers the underlying logic of single-case (and its relations to applied behaviour analysis) designs, specific design strategies and tactics, data presentation and interpretation. This book also covers the general advantages of single-subject research for those working in applied settings - particularly courses in psychology, and social work.

Focuses on key concepts and techniques in quantitative data analysis using SAS commands and programming language. This book provides students with a hands-on, exercise-heavy method for learning basic to intermediate SAS commands while understanding how to apply statistics and reasoning to real-world problems.