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commres-literature-positioning

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Use when positioning a Communication Research (CR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a cumulative, theory-testing contribution to communication science. CR reviewers expect engagement with the empirical communication literature and the rival accounts your hypotheses adjudicate. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.

When to use

• Drafting or revising the introduction
• Revising the present study or hypotheses paragraph
• Distinguishing hypotheses from closest prior empirical papers
• Clarifying contribution to communication theory
• Engaging the empirical debate and rival accounts
• Building to explicit numbered hypotheses
• Naming the gap precisely
• Positioning against rival accounts

When not to use

• Writing the lit review
• Providing submission-ready advice without checking official-source-map.md
• Polishing format if a sibling venue owns the contribution

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