content analysis

Examples of content analysis in the following topics:

• Interview Followup

  • Content analysis is an essential part of the follow-up, in order to summarize who said what and when.
  • Content analysis is an essential part of the follow-up to any type of interview.
  • Online synchronous interviews use simple text chat functions that can be recorded or archived for later analysis.
  • Once you have completed your content analysis, you will want to consider how to cite or credit the source(s) of the respondents.
  • Explain how the different interview methods influence content analysis during follow-up

• What to Do with Your Knowledge

  • You can use your analysis to create what is called a "theoretical, universal audience. " The universal audience is an imagined audience that serves as a test for the speaker.
  • Imagine in your mind a composite audience that contains individuals from the diverse backgrounds you have discovered in your audience analysis.
  • Next, decide whether or not the content of your speech would appeal to individuals within that audience.

• Sources of Information

  • Depth: How deep and detailed is the analysis?
  • News sources often contain both factual content and opinion content.
  • Editorial commentary, analysis and opinion pieces, whether written by the editors of the publication (editorials) or outside authors (op-eds) are reliable primary sources for statements attributed to that editor or author, but are rarely reliable for statements of fact.
  • When taking information from opinion content, the identity of the author may help determine reliability.

• Career Benefits: Advancement

  • One caveat: you still need to do a thorough audience analysis.
  • You can control the content and tone of a speech more easily than you can dictate the content of a job interview.

• Culture

  • Cultural filters and frameworks may be useful later in an analysis of what someone said, but the starting point of effective listening should be to understand the perspective of the speaker as fully as possible.
  • By meeting the speaker on his or her own grounds and taking care to focus on the content rather than the style of the communication, we can best assure more effective understanding.

• Listening and Critical Thinking

  • The first step in thinking critically about the contents of a lecture is to listen to the lecture thoughtfully and without distraction.
  • Critical thinking skills include observation, interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, explanation, and metacognition.

• The Advantages and Disadvantages of PowerPoint

  • Design power pointless: gives the illusion of content and coherence, when in fact there is really not much substance or connection between the different points on the slides.
  • Too many flying letters, animations, and sound effects without seeing much original thought or analysis can be a real issue.

• Defining a Persuasive Speech

  • If you can make your audience laugh, think about a personal experience, or tell an anecdote that produces emotion, they are more likely to listen to the content of your argument.
  • Audience analysis is an important factor when giving a persuasive speech.

• Dynamic Representations: Video and Multimedia

  • Presenters may use navigation devices such as text links, picture thumbnails, or miniature screenshots to move around spontaneously within and between large collections of interconnected content.
  • Regardless of whether speakers use static or dynamic content, all presentations must present consistent and compelling information within a limited time frame.
  • Presentation software programs provide public speakers with the ability to display video, photography, and other dynamic content in slideshow formats suitable for small and large audiences.
  • Zooming presentation programs such as Prezi present content on one infinite canvas.
  • Presenters often bring multimedia into presentations to make content more engaging for audiences.

• Other Presentation Software Options

  • Prezi is a free application which allows you to create visual presentations by zooming in, out and around your visual workspace.Instead of individual slides, these ZUI's (zoom user interface) are based on one infinite canvas on which all content is presented.
  • This allows for non-linear presentations, richer detail of content, and a better overview of complex visual messages.
  • Using this method, several people revise content or review the changes as they are made by others.