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Research Projects --
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All assignments should be well‑researched,
well‑written, and free of grammatical and spelling errors., They
must include appropriate citations and references. All research
papers must adhere to APA format. Information about research
sources, writing style, and APA format is available in the Publication manual of the American Psychological
Association, currently a required CJ 300 text also available
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Your reports should build upon the
theories and skills developed in this and prerequisite courses,
including Research Methods and other core courses as well
as the organizational communication courses you have completed or
are taking concurrently. Your reports should also draw from a
variety of research sources including articles from scholarly
journals and books, from trade books, and from training
materials. You must cite the source for any materials you use
which you did not create; if you copy or adapt something from
another source, give credit. Although it would be fine to
interview other faculty as part of your research, please do
not expect them to provide you with materials. Some will be
nice to you but will then tell me how lazy you were for expecting
them to do your research for you or how arrogant you were for
wishing to appropriate their materials and pass them off as your
own. |
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Written
Assignments -- Basic Expectations |
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Written Assignments
should be well‑researched, well-written and free of grammatical
and spelling errors. They must include appropriate citations and
references, and should conform with APA stylistic guidelines
covered in CJ 204 and CJ 300. |
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Papers are due
at the beginning of class on the date specified Late papers may be
turned in to me during my office hours or placed in my mailbox.
Please do not slide them under the door to my office. Written
reports and case analyses must include appropriate citations and
references. |
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Team Projects -- Basic
Expectations |
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You and your team will work together
on classroom exercises, on a report of a communication audit
instrument/procedure, and on a communication audit term project.
You and your team may also need to coordinate your individual
reports on communication instruments uses to assess communication
competence, communication style, group communication, source
valence, etc. |
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Team presentations will be
evaluated by the instructor; your individual contributions to
the group effort will be evaluated by the instructor and your
fellow group members. The instructor will consider all data
before assigning your individual grade for group presentations. |
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Cohn's Law |
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In any
bureaucracy, paperwork increases until you spend more and more time
on the less and less you are doing. |
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Stability is
achieved when you spend all your time reporting on the nothing you
are doing. |
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