Chapter 6 Self-Grading Quizzes

Researching Documents and Texts
. ______ is the literal, or surface, meaning of the message.

. Which of these counts as a text?

. If you want to determine when key events happened and who was involved in making decisions, you should conduct a:

. If you want to conduct a quantitative analysis of what terms politicians from different parties use to talk about refugees, you should conduct a:

. If you want to understand the meanings behind the prime minister's statements of taxation, situating them in current political context, you should conduct a:

. The process of converting information from the texts into themes or variables for analysis is called:

. Whereas _____________ refers to the literal statements in the text, ___________ refers to implications and connotations embedded in the text.

. Which of these is the first step of conducting a content analysis?

. Which of these is true of discourse analysis?

. One of the benefits of textual analysis is non-reactivity, which means that _________________.

. A politician's post on Twitter is an example of a text.

. It is straightforward to exclude confounding variables when using documents and texts.

. It is not important to specify the population of study for a textual analysis.

. Coding only addresses the structural features of the text, not its content.

. A press release would be an example of a primary source.

. Discourse analysis is primarily a qualitative methodology.

. Textual analysis rarely produces causal claims.

. Content analysis is only used for theory-building research, not theory-testing research.

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