1. Your Names COMM 2223 / SPCH 2203 Foundations of Communication Date
Name of theory
Your Names
COMM 2223 / SPCH 2203
Foundations of Communication
Date

2. Unit Name
Chapter # and title

3. Who? Name(s) of theorist(s) with photo(s) Brief credentials
Brief background
(one slide for each theorist)

4. Defining theory: what’s in a name?
Brief summary
See Theory Summaries file
(only slide that may be word-for-word text)

5. Features of theory
Level of generality
Grand?
Mid-range?
Narrow?

6. Components
Concepts?
Nominal, real?
Relationships?

7. Goals
To explain?
To understand?
To predict?
To effect social change?

8. Approaches to knowing: how do you see (and talk about) the world?
General approaches
Empirical?
Interpretive?
Critical?

9. Approaches to knowing: what questions do you ask about the world?
Ontology?
Epistemology?
Axiology?

10. Approaches to knowing: how do you go about theory building?
Guidelines
Covering law approach?
Rules approach?
Systems approach?

11. The research process
Step 1: Methods
Deductive?
Inductive?

12. Step 2 : Operationalizing concepts
Making observations?
Collecting data?

13. Step 3: Conducting research
Reliability?
Validity?

14. Step 4: Evaluating theory
Scope?
Logical consistency?
Parsimony?
Utility?
Testability?
Heurism?
Test of time?
(One slide for each)

15. Conclusions What do you think?
Do you agree or disagree with what the textbook authors say?
How does this theory relate to your career field and/or personal life?
(One slide for each of you)

16. Scenario
Mediated or face-to-face demonstration of the theory in action
As it applies to your career field?
As it applies to your personal life?