Basic Steps of Research
Rhetorical Criticism
Quantitative Methods
Qualitative Methods
Vocabulary
100
Step 1 of conducting research
What is identifying focus of research?
100
This method uses Aristotle’s ideas to evaluate rhetorical acts.
What is Neo-Aristotelian?
100
This approach uses the principles of research in the physical sciences to conduct experiments that explore human behavior.
What is experimental research?
100
While there are 7 basic steps of research, qualitative research has these many steps.
What is five?
100
According to Berg, this is a method of qualitative research “for discovering, from records and accounts, what happened during some past period”.
What is histography?
200
Step 3 of conducting research
What is defining key terms?
200
Credited to Ernest G. Bormann, this type of analysis is a more contemporary rhetorical method.
What is Fantasy Theme?
200
This type of research is used to ask people a number of questions about particular topics
What is Survey Research?
200
This method “places researchers in the midst of whatever it is they study".
What is ethnography?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This type of study involves gathering significant information about particular people, contexts, or phenomena to understand a particular case under investigation.
What are case studies?
300
Step 5 of conducting research
What is establish a sample population?
300
This rhetorical research contends that people learn through the sharing of stories.
What is Narrative Criticism?
300
Researchers use this type of analysis to count the number of occurrences of their particular focus of inquiry.
What is Content Analysis?
300
Researchers who use this type of interviewing meet with groups of people to understand their communication characteristics.
What is focus group?
300
The actual process of doing research is this term
What is methodology?
400
Step 6 in conducting research
What is gather and analyze data?
400
Foss defines this type of criticism as "the analysis of rhetoric to discover how the rhetorical construction of gender is used as a means for oppression and how that process can be challenged and resisted".
What is feminist Criticism?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This type of research seeks to combine the results of a series of past studies to see if their results are similar, or to determine if they show us any new information when they are looked at in totality.
What is meta-analysis?
400
This type of research seeks to create positive social change through “a highly reflective, experiential, and participatory mode of research in which all individuals involved in the study, researcher and subject alike, are deliberate and contributing actors in the research enterprise” , according to Berg.
What is action research?
400
This term refers to research in which we can quantify, or count, communication phenomena.
What is quantitative?
500
The last step in conducting research
What is interpret and share results?
500
This type of criticism is a collection of values, beliefs, or ethics that influence modes of behavior for a group or culture.
What is ideological?
500
This diagram has these many steps, unlike the 7 basic steps of research.
What is four?
500
Berg defines this method as, “to some extent, all the unobtrusive strategies amount to examining and assessing human traces”
What is unobtrusive research?
500
Kenneth Burke explains that the pentad criticism contains these five elements.
What are act, agent, agency, scene, and purpose?