Why Communication Concepts Are Related Paper
Course Learning Objectives Met By This Assignment:
- Ability to Formulate Claims: Demonstrates ability to articulate researchable claims specifying the interrelationship among variables.
- Ability to Conduct Scholarly Research: Demonstrates ability to locate and appropriately cite and list recent, relevant, and reasonable scholarly research, consisting mostly of peer-reviewed journal sources.
- Ability to Select Research Topics Relevant to the Course: Content demonstrates relevance to the assignment and to the communication discipline.
Instructions
The purpose of this assignment is to develop a set of three (3) hypotheses that explains how and why communication concepts are related. The paper is different from a typical literature review or research assignment in that most assignments ask students to summarize research. In contrast, the syllogism paper attempts to develop an explanation for why/how communication variables are related via a set of three hypotheses that are supported by prior research.
Papers are primarily graded on five areas:
(1) Proposition wording/claims: Conceptual soundness of the three hypotheses, including their wording and collective organization;
(2) Scholarly research: Quality of the scholarly journal research used to support each hypothesis;
(3) Topicality/integration of course content: relevance to communication and course learning objectives.
(4) Writing: Proper use of APA formatting.
(5) Originality: Does your set of hypotheses offer a new explanation for how communication concepts are related, or does it simply restate what is already known.
Formatting & Requirements
- Document Format: See Example Papers (available through Canvas)
- Content & Length: 1 page.
- Minimum Number of References: At least 2 scholarly journal articles for each of your first two hypotheses, and therefore a minimum of 4 total scholarly journal articles.
Off-Limits Topics/Variables:
- Relationship satisfaction
- Self-disclosure
- “Amount of social media usage” (e.g., as social media use increases, _________ increases; specific communication behaviors via social media okay – see example on template)
- “Amount of communication” (e.g., the more communication, the more _____).