Showcasing research projects that led to academic and professional papers, this practical supplementary text is an indispensable resource for advanced students in communication and related disciplines. Feeley investigates the entire research process, including the writing skills needed to present research accurately and convincingly for different audiences. Through the exploration of actual studies and inverviews with investigators, this text reveals the pitfalls, discoveries, and synchronicities that can happen when conducting research.

Preface to Exemplary Research

1. Beginning Research: An Introduction
2. Using Multiple Requests to Gain Compliance: Dillard, Hunter, and Burgoon's (1984) Meta-Analytic Review
3. Shoemaker's (1996) Biologically Based Theory of Why We Need News
4. The Media as Cause and Consequence in Communication Research: Slater's (2007) Spirals Model
5.Managing Uncertainty in an Uncertain Organizational Environment: Kramer, Dougherty, & Pierce's (2004) Case

6: The Measurement of Arousal in Interpersonal Communication: Sparks and Greene (1992) Respond
7. Uncertainty Reduction in Interpersonal Communication: Berger and Calabrese (1975) Study Communication in

8. Brummans and Colleagues (2008) Attempt to Make Sense of Intractable Multiparty Conflict: A Mixed Methods 9. How Media Influences an (Un)Informed Citizenry: Prior's (2005) Adaptation of Knowledge-Gap Hypothesis
Appendices
Appendix A: The Selection Process for Exemplars
Appendix B: Citing Information on Exemplary Studies
Appendix C: Interview Dates with Exemplary Authors
Appendix D: Final List of Exemplary Articles
Appendix E: Lessons Learned from Exemplary Research