LibGuides: Communication: Guides to Doing Research in Communication

Sage Research Methods

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SAGE Research Methods provides full-text access to more than 1,000 social sciences-related books, reference works and journal articles published by SAGE. Included in SRM are two research methods series known as the Little Blue Books and the Little Green Books.

The Cases sub-collection provides access to more than 500 case studies. Cases are peer-reviewed and come with pedagogical tools including learning objectives and discussions questions.

The Datasets sub-collection is comprised of teaching datasets and instructional guides. These practice datasets are indexed by method and data type, and are designed for use in classroom exercises or in exam papers.

SRM also includes a series of original instructional videos created by SAGE to aid pedagogy in social science research.

Guides to Doing Research in Communication

Building communication theory (Infante et al., 1997)
- Communication theory from the social scientific perspective, emphasizing contributions from theorists.
- Ref P90 .I476 1997
Communication research measures: a sourcebook (Rubin et al., eds., 1994)
- Descriptions of questionnaires, tests, scales and measures used in communication research, with comments on validity and reliability. Indicates what studies have used a particular instrument.
- Ref P91.3 .C62 1994
Communication research statistics (Reinard, 2006)
- This introductory textbook guides students through the statistics used in most empirical research in the field of communication studies.
- P93.7 .R45 2006
Handbook of media and communication research: qualitative and quantitative methods
- P91.3 .H34 2002
Researching communications: a practical guide to methods in media and cultural analysis (Deacon et al., 2007)
- Explains and illustrates methods used for empirical research in the field of communication studies.
- P90 .R376 2007
Sage sourcebook of advanced data analysis methods for communication research (Hayes et al., 2008)
- Introduction to advanced statistical methods applied to research in the field of communication.
- P93.7 .S24 2008
Statistical methods for communication science (Hayes, 2005)
- Introduction to statistical methods, including such "key topics as sampling procedures, probability, reliability, hypothesis testing, simple correlation and regression, and analyses of variance and covariance."
- P93.7 .H39 2005