Communication Final Study Guide
Comm201 Spring 2012 Exam Study Guide
Preliminary Version: Subject to change through 26 April 2012
This version: 12 April
Lectures, Etc.
• Three basic types of metaphor
• O’Keefe’s three message design logics
• Modernism, postmodernism, structuralism and poststructuralism
Lunsford's The Everyday Writer
• Top 20 most common writing errors
• APA citation style (in-text and reference lists)
Muller & Craig, “Introduction”
• Definitions of theory
• The relationship between professional/scholarly theorizing and everyday/lay theorizing
• Metadiscourse
• Practical (approach to) theory/theorizing
• ....Comparison with empirical and normative approaches to theory/theorizing
Craig & Muller, “Introduction to Unit II: Metatheory”
• Four types of metatheoretical assumptions that underlie any theoretical claim. (“The Ologies”)
• Approaches to metatheoretical assumptions:
• practical theory
• empirical scientific theory
• hermeneutic and interpretive theory (discussed as practiced in social science)
• critical theory
• postmodernism or postmodern theory
• Plausibility and interestingness as ways to assess theories
Craig & Muller, all other unit introductions
• You should know what distinguishes each tradition, how communication is traditionally conceptualized in each tradition, and which readings are associated with that traditions.
• Also be familiar with the basic sketches of assigned readings from that unit .
Craig, “Communication Theory as a Field”
• 7 traditions in communication theory
• Dialectical-dialogical coherence
• Practical theory/theorizing, its distinctions from other named approaches to theorizing
• Metadiscourse and metacommunication
• The “constitutive metamodel” for communication theorizing
• Reasons for incoherence or confusion about communication as a field
Golafshani, “Understanding Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research”
• Types of reliability and validity...from both qualitative and quantitative
Preliminary Version: Subject to change through 26 April 2012
This version: 12 April
Lectures, Etc.
• Three basic types of metaphor
• O’Keefe’s three message design logics
• Modernism, postmodernism, structuralism and poststructuralism
Lunsford's The Everyday Writer
• Top 20 most common writing errors
• APA citation style (in-text and reference lists)
Muller & Craig, “Introduction”
• Definitions of theory
• The relationship between professional/scholarly theorizing and everyday/lay theorizing
• Metadiscourse
• Practical (approach to) theory/theorizing
• ....Comparison with empirical and normative approaches to theory/theorizing
Craig & Muller, “Introduction to Unit II: Metatheory”
• Four types of metatheoretical assumptions that underlie any theoretical claim. (“The Ologies”)
• Approaches to metatheoretical assumptions:
• practical theory
• empirical scientific theory
• hermeneutic and interpretive theory (discussed as practiced in social science)
• critical theory
• postmodernism or postmodern theory
• Plausibility and interestingness as ways to assess theories
Craig & Muller, all other unit introductions
• You should know what distinguishes each tradition, how communication is traditionally conceptualized in each tradition, and which readings are associated with that traditions.
• Also be familiar with the basic sketches of assigned readings from that unit .
Craig, “Communication Theory as a Field”
• 7 traditions in communication theory
• Dialectical-dialogical coherence
• Practical theory/theorizing, its distinctions from other named approaches to theorizing
• Metadiscourse and metacommunication
• The “constitutive metamodel” for communication theorizing
• Reasons for incoherence or confusion about communication as a field
Golafshani, “Understanding Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research”
• Types of reliability and validity...from both qualitative and quantitative