TY - BOOK AU - Pettey,Gary R. AU - AU - Bracken,Cheryl Campanella AU - Pask,Elizabeth B. TI - Communication research methodology: a strategic communication science approach to applied research SN - 9780415507448 (pbk.) U1 - 302.20721 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Florence : Taylor and Francis PB - Routledge KW - Communication KW - Research KW - Methodology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1: Reality, What a Concept: Definition Is Everything; Chapter 2: Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other: Explication, Validity, Reliability, and Measurement; Chapter 3: Ladies and Gentlemen, Place Your Bets: Probability, Sampling Theory, and Hypothesis Testing; Chapter 4: Ask It in the Form of a Question, Please: Developing Questions and Creating Groups; Chapter 5: Are They Apples and Oranges, or Fruit?: Describing Groups; Chapter 6: Getting to Know You: Empirical Qualitative Approaches; Chapter 7: Intelligent Design: Basic Approaches to Design; Chapter 8: Kids, Don't Try This at Home: Experimental Design; Chapter 9: Survey Says: Survey Methodology; Chapter 10: Is It a Boy or a Girl? Are Those the Only Choices?: Content Analysis; Chapter 11: And What Does It All Mean?: Analytic Principles; Chapter 12: The Count Says: Quantitative Approaches; Chapter 13: Who Are You Calling a Deviate?: Group Differences, ANOVA and the F ; Chapter 14: We Need To Have a Talk About Relationships: Correlation, Simple Regression, Multiple Regression ER -