Chapter 2: Topic Flashcards
1
Q
How do you start to choose a topic?
A
- Something you are interested in
- Something that happened to you, in front of you, or to your family and friends
- Something in the news
- A dilemma, problem, or question
- Something you read in a “future directions” section of an article
2
Q
What are preliminary questions (truck drivers)
A
How do long-haul truck driver communicatively maintain family relationships?
3
Q
Evaluating your topics?
A
- Is it clearly focused?
- Phrased in a non biased way towards an answer or solution
- Is there some way to observe or measure the phenomenon?
- WHERE IS COMMUNICATION
- Why is this research necessary?
- Does your research include protected populations?
- Is it doable in your given time frame?
- Is it ethical?
