COMM 3030

Research Writing Seminar in Communication

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

Academics are in the business of creating knowledge. The way that academics in the social sciences typically share the knowledge that we create—the way that most often earns us credit in our universities and among our professional community—is through our writing. In the field of communication, specifically, our writing typically takes the form of journal articles, which may be preceded by conference versions of our papers. At times, we also write book chapters, books, and book reviews; increasingly, scholars in our field may turn to other avenues of knowledge dissemination, including lay articles, blogs, social media, and the like (see Boczkowski & Delli Carpini (2020) for a rundown.

When Offered Spring.

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• Pose a research question and articulate its relevance ü Situate your project clearly within existing research on your topic, showing a contribution.
• Construct parts of a paper that can do well their specific work.
• Provide, receive, and revise in response to constructive criticism and peer feedback.
• Use appropriate citation practices and adhere to the norms of academic writing style.
• Present research findings through a variety of academic genres to specialists and non-specialists.

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