Note that this mini-assignment includes almost all the elements of a full communication research study—

developing a focus for your study, writing a specific research question, planning your statistical analyses, deciding what type of data to collect and how to collect it, and presenting your results. Note also that deciding what type of statistical analyses and reporting you will do precedes your data collection. If you are interested in continuous data, you will not design a study that collects only categorical data. You need a defensible and demonstrable connection between your initial theory and research question(s), the data you are interested in, and your research method(s).