Cheyenne Mead English 3450

In my outline, I carefully made a plan of what I could do if I were to perform this research. I think that my ideas for how I would perform the research are pretty solid and I do not plan on changing that. Jay was my peer reviewer on my outline. He commented that he would reccomend I specify that each sample group in my research would have a 30 + size. This advice was very helpful and I plan to be more specific with that in my final report. He also added that too small a sample size would make it easy to link demographic to the results of my research. This could setback my research because it could potentially invalidate it. I definitely agree with this and I plan on making these revisions to my final draft.

 When writing my literature review about climate change science communication to the public, I found that there is a research gap in studying the use of "trigger words" in communicating climate science. I was able to find a PTW journal discussing the use of different trigger words in governmental documents. Some examples of trigger words when it comes to talking about climate change can be the words, "climate change", "global warming", "fossil fuels", and many more. These words can make some sociopolitical groups feel like they are being left out of the conversation on climate change. They can also make some sociopolitical groups completely disregard the importance of the information being presented in front of them. This research gap is an important topic to look at in more depth for several reasons. The main reason being that making a wide variety of groups feel included in the conversation about climate change is a key part of affectively comm...