Article analysis

The goal of this assignment is to become familiar with important scholarly journals in the field, to

identify communication research articles/books/book chapters that are relevant to a topic of

your interest, to understand the basic structure of communication research articles, and to learn

the basics of how to cite them using the APA citation style. The assignment involves the

following steps:

?1.? ?Explore a few journals from the following list (Note: these are the titles of academic

journals) and find one research article (no “book review”) that you find interesting from

one of the journals:

?1.? ?Communication Theory

?2.? ?Journal of Communication

?3.? ?Human Communication Research

?4.? ?Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (Open access)

?5.? ?Communication, Culture, & Critique

?6.? ?Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

?7.? ?Communication Education

?8.? ?Communication Monographs

?9.? ?Critical Studies in Media Communication

10.? ?Journal of International and Intercultural Communication

11.? ?Journal of Applied Communication Research

12.? ?Quarterly Journal of Speech

13.? ?Social Media + Society (Open access)

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?3.? ?Read the article and write a 2–3-page paper that reports the research. Your paper should

address the following points: rationale of the research, RQ/H, methods, and results.

Conclude the paper with your reaction to the research and how it connects to our course

readings. As you write your paper, please make sure that you incorporate in-text citations

(direct quotations or/and indirect quotations) using the APA citation style.

?4.? ?List the article and course readings you used in the reference section using the APA

citation style.

?5.? ?Once you finish writing the article analysis, identify three additional scholarly sources

other than our course readings that will allow you to learn more about the topic (e.g.,

journal articles, book chapters from edited books, books). Please use the database

Communication and Mass Media Complete available through the Franklin library website.

Make sure to click “scholarly only” to filter out non-scholarly materials although this

filtering function does not completely eliminate non-scholarly materials. For books and

book chapters, our library catalog should be useful.

source is about and how it connects to the article you analyzed) at the end of paper.

?7.? ?Present it in class (details TBA)

https://journals.sagepub.com/action/doSearch?AllFi…

this is for the main essay choose one article

https://web.p.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/advanced?…

this is for the three articles