COM 6605 Strategic Communication Theories
Expectations for Theoretical Approaches Assignment
How do we know what we know? Can we know the truth objectively? Or is truth largely subjective and meaning highly interpretive? Explain and defend your response.
Then, to apply your perspective, imagine an organization that wants to retain employees has hired you to find out why so many of their employees are quitting. Explain how would you go about discovering why employees are leaving the organization. If you take quantitative, empirical approaches (for example, surveys) to discover this knowledge, defend your approach to someone with an interpretive perspective. If you take qualitative, interpretive approaches (for example, using interviews or ethnography), defend that to someone with an objective perspective. If you combine empirical and interpretive approaches, then defend use of both.
Each student’s paper is expected to be original work the student personally researched and wrote for this class. Most of this assignment should be written by the student, not just quoting sources. No more than 20% of a submission should match something already in the Turnitin database. If the originality report for a submission indicates more than 20% matches material already in the database, students may revise and resubmit their submission until the deadline. Cut quotations and paraphrase. Turnitin typically gives an originality report immediately for a first submission but may take 24 hours or longer to generate originality reports for subsequent submissions.
The assignment is expected to be uploaded by the deadline as a single Word document, double-spaced and at least 1,200 words long. Emailed assignments are not acceptable. Students who have difficulty uploading an assignment are expected to contact Canvas help before the deadline. Do not include an abstract. Do not include footnotes or endnotes. References are expected to be listed at the end of the paper in the style of the American Psychological Association (APA). Anonymous websites are not acceptable as references. Students are expected to know sources of information.
Students are expected to put effort into their academic writing. Everyone makes mistakes, but there’s a difference between a couple of mistakes and careless work full of errors, misspellings, run-on sentences, sentence fragments, or expressions that make no sense. Sloppy writing distracts from what you are trying to say and conveys that you don’t care about the quality of your work.
