ABSTRACT

Designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, Research from the Inside Out is an insider's guide to conducting empirically-based research. Showcasing eight research projects resulting in academic and professional papers, this practical supplementary text is an indispensable resource for those intending to further their academic studies in communication or other related social science disciplines.

In the text, Thomas Hugh Feeley guides students as he "looks under the hood" of the entire research process, including the writing skills needed to present research accurately and convincingly for different audiences. Feeley provides real conversations with communication researchers, often quoting directly from interviews he conducted with them.

Showing students and future researchers in communication what they learned during each of the eight exemplary studies, the researchers candidly reveal the pitfalls, discoveries, and synchronicities that can happen when conducting research.

chapter 1|13 pages

Beginning Research

An Introduction

chapter 2|20 pages

Using Multiple Requests to Gain Compliance

Dillard, Hunter, and Burgoon's Meta-Analytic Review

chapter 4|19 pages

The Media as Cause and Consequence in Communication Research

Slater's Spirals Model

chapter 5|17 pages

Managing Uncertainty in an Uncertain Organizational Environment

Kramer, Dougherty, and Pierce's Case Study of an Airline Merger

chapter 6|16 pages

The Measurement of Arousal in Interpersonal Communication

Sparks and Greene's Response

chapter 7|15 pages

Uncertainty Reduction in Interpersonal Communication

Berger and Calabrese's Study of Communication in Initial Interaction

chapter 8|14 pages

A Mixed-Methods National Study

Brummans and Colleagues' Attempt to Make Sense of Intractable Multiparty Conflict

chapter 9|15 pages

How Media Influences an (Un)Informed Citizenry

Prior's Adaptation of the Knowledge-Gap Hypothesis