Applied Communication Research Methods: Getting Started as a Researcher

A hands-on guide for applying research methods to common problems, issues, projects, and questions that communication practitioners deal with on a regular basis, this text demonstrates the relevance of research in professional roles and communication and media careers. The second edition features updated material that covers major communication research methods including surveys, experiments, focus groups, and observation research while also providing key background information on ethics, validity, reliability, concept explication, statistical analysis, and other current topics. It continues to foster student engagement with research through its numerous features and practical activities, including: <ul>
<li>Research in Depth―examples of methods as applied in scholarly research </li> <li>Reflect &amp; React―problems and issues that promote reflection and discussion </li> <li>Voices from Industry―Q&amp;As with professionals working in communication industries </li> <li>End-of-Unit Activities―exercises that reinforce concepts and content </li> </ul>
The text is ideally suited to both undergraduate and graduate courses in mass communication research methods. Online resources, including sample syllabi, PowerPoint slides, and test banks are available on the companion website: www.routledge.com/cw/boyle.

Politics & Social Sciences

Schmierbach, Mike

Boyle, Michael

Social Sciences

Routledge

Applied Communication Research Methods: Getting Started as a Researcher demonstrates how to apply concepts to research problems, issues, projects, and questions that communication practitioners face every day. Recognizing that students engage more directly with research methods when they experience research through hands-on practice, authors Michael Boyle and Mike Schmierbach developed this text to demonstrate the relevance of research in professional roles and communication careers. Along with its distinctive approach to research methods instruction, this text also serves as an enhanced glossary and a superior reference. Students can easily navigate key concepts and terminology, which are linked to practical exercises within the context of the instruction. In-unit activities and features provide numerous opportunities to delve further into topics covered in class, including: <ul>
<li>Research in Depth – examples of a concept being used in scholarly research</li> <li>Reflect and React – thought-provoking problems and issues that promote reflection and discussion</li> <li>Voices from Industry – Q&amp;As with professionals working in communication industries </li> <li>End-of-unit activities – exercises that reinforce concepts and content </li> </ul>
Online resources, including sample syllabi, test banks, and more, are available on the companion website: www.routledge.com/cw/boyle.Applied Communication Research Methods is a concise, engaging work that today’s students and industry practitioners will embrace and keep on-hand throughout their careers.

Applied Communication Research Methods

This third edition is again a practical introduction to communication research methods, foregrounding the role research plays in communication and media industry careers. 
Covering major methodologies such as surveys, experiments, focus groups, in-depth interviews, content analysis, and others, the book takes the reader through the research process from beginning to end. The text continues to help students link the research methods they learn to practical contexts through its activities and features, which include Voices From Industry boxes written by practitioners that give insight into application of methods; Steps to Success research review checklists; and numerous end-of-chapter activities to reinforce concepts. This third edition contains updates throughout, including an expanded discussion of reliability and validity across both qualitative and quantitative research contexts as well as new Research in Action boxes that showcase how research is used in professional and public contexts. 
The text is ideally suited to both undergraduate and graduate courses in communication research methods within communication, media, and mass communication programs. 
Online resources, including sample syllabi, PowerPoint slides, and test banks are available at www.routledge.com/9781032288819.

Train to perform at the highest level with the lowest risk of injury. New Functional Training for Sports, Second Edition produces the best results on the court, field, track, and mat, not just in the weight room. 
 Michael Boyle, one of the world’s leading sport performance coaches, presents the concepts, methods, exercises, and programs that maximize athletes’ movements in competition. A series of functional assessments help in determining the design of a specific plan for each athlete. Self-reinforcing progressions in exercises for the lower body, core, upper body, and ultimately total body give athletes the balance, proprioception, stability, strength, and power they require for excelling in their sports. Sample programs assist in the customization process and ensure each aspect of preparation for physical performance. 
 Boyle also draws on the latest research and his wealth of experience to offer programming advice and recommendations on foam rolling, stretching, and dynamic warm-ups. 
New Functional Training for Sports goes beyond traditional exercise descriptions and explanations, incorporating full-color, high-definition composites of foundational movements as well as online access to video demonstrations, commentary, and analysis of key exercises. 
New Functional Training for Sports is a refined and expanded version of Boyle’s original work published more than a decade previously. This edition offers the most current functional training expertise to apply to your specific purposes.

New Functional Training for Sports

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Human Kinetics

Design a training facility and craft strength and conditioning programs to meet the needs of your athletes.\nStrength and Conditioning Coaching: Winning Methods, Programs, and Facilities will help you make the right choices, apply the best methods, offer superior training experiences and outcomes, and be a more successful professional in a very competitive industry. Leading strength and conditioning coach Mike Boyle filters out the faulty information, failed approaches, and trendy training techniques and simply shares what works best and why.\nInside you’ll find the following: 7 weightroom behavior guidelines 8 rules for successful program design 8 essential mobility, activation, and dynamic warm-up exercises 3 common problems in developing speed training programs and how to avoid them 14 impactful ways to be a more effective coach during training sessions 
Strength and Conditioning Coaching provides a science-meets-practice perspective on the following questions and more: Why does core training keep evolving? Why is off-season aerobic conditioning often detrimental to athletes’ performance? Why are unilateral lower-body exercises so important in athlete performance training? Boyle answers them all in his unique no-nonsense, insightful style.\nThe author also delves into each of the four most common strength and conditioning training methods, their pros and cons, and how to apply them for athletes of all developmental stages and abilities. Learn more about important topics that every strength and conditioning professional should know: Modern facility design Equipment selection Strength and power programming Conditioning programming Speed development 
Strength and Conditioning Coaching is a vital resource that can help you maximize training results for your clients and athletes.\nThis title was previously released as Designing Strength Training Programs and Facilities, Second Edition.

Strength and Conditioning Coaching: Winning Methods, Programs, and Facilities

How to Find Joy Even If You Have a Hole in Your Bucket: Stop Suffering, Start Living, and Cultivate the Only Skill that Matters Most

Religion & Spirituality

Onyx Publishing

In the seven years since the publication of his first book, Functional Training for Sports, new understanding of functional anatomy created a shift in strength coaching. With this new material, Coach Boyle presents the continued evolution of functional training as seen by a leader in the strength and conditioning field.

Advances in Functional Training

On Target Publications, LLC

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Applied Communication Research Methods: Getting Started as a Researcher

Applied Communication Research Methods: Getting Started as a Researcher

Applied Communication Research Methods: Getting Started as a Researcher

Applied Communication Research Methods

Applied Communication Research Methods

Applied Communication Research Methods: Getting Started as a Researcher

New Functional Training for Sports

Strength and Conditioning Coaching: Winning Methods, Programs, and Facilities

How to Find Joy Even If You Have a Hole in Your Bucket: Stop Suffering, Start Living, and Cultivate the Only Skill that Matters Most

Advances in Functional Training