To demonstrate a thorough understanding of your communication theory and how it relates to your workplace* communication problem.

Description

Objective: To demonstrate a thorough understanding of your communication theory and how it relates to your workplace* communication problem.

Skills: This assignment will help you refine your abilities to execute the following skills for professional-level research:

identify and formulate research questions that clearly define and focus what you would like to investigate in school or on the job;

locate authoritative information in library and internet resources;

analyze and assess the relevance of information to a research question, and

synthesize new knowledge and establish context for your inquiries.

Background: Please begin this assignment by reading the following information carefully.

A literature review is a critical summary of what subject matter experts have to say about a question or topic. In your case, you will write an account of what scholars have published in peer-reviewed journals about the communication theory that you have determined to be relevant to the communication issue in your workplace.*

Occasionally,

you will be asked in school or on the job to write a literature review

as a stand-alone report. More often, you will use a literature review to

establish the context for a larger business report or business

proposal, or for a scholarly report. In your case, your literature

review will become a part of your report’s introduction where it will

help your readers to understand why the theory is applicable to your

workplace communication problem. You will use your literature review to

disclose the knowledge and ideas that already have been established on

your theory.

Content: Based on what you learn, write a 2-page, double-spaced essay in which you explain how the theory that you have chosen relates to your final paper’s research question.

Your literature review should begin with an introduction that contains your research question, an explanation of its significance, and any other background information setting the context of your research.

Use the body paragraphs to describe and assess what you learned about the communication theory that you plan to use in your final project. Please use Cognitive Dissonance Theory

The conclusion should summarize the major issues that the researchers reported about the theory; it also should evaluate whether the theory accurately explains or can be used to resolve the workplace* communication problem you are investigating.

Format:

2 pages

Double-spaced

peer-reviewed journals for references

12 point font

1” margins

APA-style cover page

Do not use any quotes or paraphrases in your writing. Just synthesize and summarize what you learned about your communication theory and critique its utility for your final project.