Paradigms of Knowing in Communication Research

In the scholarly journal article Paradigms of Knowing in Communication Research by Baxter & Babbie hypothesis is ways to solve the problem people have as public speaker looking into all age groups by looking at it through the lens of a communication scientist. The speaker looks into many experiments tested by others to specify different areas that help find what the problem for public speaker levels of anxiety came from or how it began. Even though the article information is narrow, it provides insight on ways to improve anxiety as a public speaker. The article achieves this by using organization skills throughout the paper, the interpretation of the results was well read and the article helped create significance study on the topic to help those with the anxiety problems.

The main points are that the many different studies done with different experiments came with many different outcomes. Researcher A is curious in searching for the reason people have different anxiety levels. The consequences are that the both groups vary in the outcomes vary in their communication levels and to searching for a reason for this behavior. The researcher approach used positivist research practice. This helps justify the underlying meaning through different methods. However, researcher B wants to look into the way body language effect the speaker behavior compare to the way they speak. This helps to look how this two theme interacts with the other. Researcher C wants to look into the anxiety level as a public speaker and the outcome by looking at what someone will do to not be called upon in class. Researcher D is also interested in public speaking anxiety levels and the results are boys are allowed to speak in public more than girls who are usual...

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... help expand on the project. The author backs up the information using research.

As a conclusion the article was written well using great organization skills, the interpretation of the results were readable and the article help future write further study about the topic. The article helps me learn more about a topic I did not know about. It also helped teach me many ways to look at a topic from someone else is view. By looking at this topic I notice the different levels on anxiety and the way it effects people. I also notice the paper linked many topic such as view from a sociologist perspective by connecting it to results. It also shows how people can view a topic and not always have the same results.

Work Cited

Baxter & Babbie. (2004). Four social science paradigms: An overview (pp. 47-67). In Basics of Communication Research. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth