Research Writing Seminar in Communication

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Academics are in the business of creating knowledge. The way that academics in the social sciences typically share the knowledge that we create-the way that most often earns us credit in our universities and among our professional community-is through our writing. In the field of communication, specifically, our writing typically takes the form of journal articles, which may be preceded by conference versions of our papers.At times, we also write book chapters, books, and book reviews; increasingly, scholars in our field may turn to other avenues of knowledge dissemination, including lay articles, blogs, social media, and the like (see Boczkowski & Delli Carpini (2020) for a rundown.