For this step of your final projects development, you will write a literature review on what you have learned from your research about the communication theory that you plan to use in your final project. You should be able to use the material that you develop here in your final project.
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 scholarly information in library;
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 academic journals about the communication theory that you believe is 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 our case, your literature review will become a part of your reports 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. However, it must not be just a description of the information available.
(*Remember, if you are not employed or cannot discuss your workplace, you should be using a communication problem from another organizational setting in which you are involved for your final project, such as school, church, or a community group.)
Locate three peer-reviewed academic journals about your communication theory.
Content: Based on what you learn, write a 2-page, double-spaced essay of at least 500 words in which you explain how the theory that you have chosen relates to your final papers research question. Make sure your literature review uses authoritative resources to cover as much of the following as you can:
Identify your workplace communication problem
State your proposed research question
Explain the significance of your research question
Provide context for your proposed research question
Identify and describe the communication theory you want to use for your final project
Summarize what you learn about the communication theory’s goal(s), approach, and classification
Describe what you learn about the communication theory’s strengths, weaknesses, and/or biases in terms
Assess the communication theory’s relevance to the paper’s research question
Use as many of the evaluation standards to review the communication theory’s concepts and/or assumptions (scope, logical consistency, testability, parsimony, utility, heurism, and/or test of time)
Explain how the theory could be used in the final research paper
Organization: Organize the literature review as follows:
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. Be specific. Use the characteristics of theory that you learned about in the Week 1 Overviews 1.1 and 1.2 as your guide to what you should explain about your communication theory. Do not use any quotes or paraphrases in your writing. Focus on synthesizing and summarizing your understanding of what you learned about your communication theory, and critique its utility for your final project.
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:
2-3 pages (at least 500 words)
Double-spaced
12 point Arial, Calibri, or Times News Roman font
1 margins
APA-style title page
APA-style in-text citations
APA-style end-of-text references
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