Experiential Excercise

My research topic was non-verbal communication, which I learned goes on constantly with humans without recognition all the time. We use non-verbal communication with facial gestures, body gestures, and eye movements. Non-verbal communication is used too display messages of superiority or dominance, messages that don't want to be conveyed verbally, and to enhance meanings or emphasis on verbal communication. At first I started with the csueastbay library catalog, because it is generally the easiest database for me to use and generally gives back the most results with the most relevancy to myself. I am also the most comfortable with using the csueastbay library catalog. After finding useful information relating to my topic in the library catalog I moved on to using ProQuest Newspapers because newspapers also tend to have very useful information in them that you can generally rely on. Newspaper sources in my point of view tend to be more scholarly oriented and the journalists or authors that write the articles in newspapers are doing research themselves, which is what I'm doing on non-verbal communication. In the library catalog the search terms I used were (non-verbal)AND(communication) with the search results limited to all available texts, the location was any, the material type was any, and the language was marked as english. I decided to use these search terms so I could try and get material directly related to non-verbal communication and so I could get materials related to both sides rather than materials that were one sided. In ProQuest Newspapers the search terms I used were nonverbal communication AND behavior searched in the citation and abstract, limited to full texts, I chose to use these search terms so I could get results related to the behavior aspects of non-verbal communication. Then I used Academic Search Premier with the search terms (communication)AND(body language) in all text, with boolean/phrase selected for search mode, publication type was selected as periodical, documentation type was selected as all, and the search was limited to full text. I changed up my seach terms and form so I could get some more results in my search and I could encorproate a different take on nonverbal communication by labeling it as communication and body language. I then searched in a subject specific database called Sociological Abstracts, with the search terms (non-verbal+communication). The search was searched with the keywords, in the social sciences area, with the date range from 1999-2008, limited to english only, with results in full format. I chose to change my search up this way so I could get more recent results that include all aspects of non-verbal communication which is why I chose to use the + sign between non-verbal and communication. When using the web I used google's search engine and typed in (communication)AND(body language) because I liked the results that I got when using it before. I then selected a .org webstie due to there being more trustworthy material on .org websties. These are the ways I evaluated and revised each search, including how I adapted to each different tool I used and solved problems with too many results being returned back to me. Cited sources are as follows:

from the catalog- Philippot, P., Feldman, R. S., & Coats, E. J. (2003). Nonverbal behavior in clinical settings. Electronic resource, 12(3), 324. Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com/lib/csueastbay/Doc?id=10084844. from ProQuest- Carolyn Y. Johnson (2008, August 18). The winners' body language - it's biological. Boston Globe,p. A.11. Retrieved November 25, 2008, from ProQuest Newsstand database. (Document ID: 1533964461). from Academic Search Premier- Goman, C. (2008, August). Watch Your Language. T+D, 62(8), 94-95. Retrieved November 25, 2008, from Academic Search Premier database. from sociological abstracts- Muhammad, K. (2007). Non-verbal communication. NUML Research Magazine, 2, 51-64. Retrieved from http://csaweb101v.csa.com/ids70/view_record.php?id=5&recnum=11&log=from_res&SID=rk3l6dblnuflq5pcte30pk30e6&mark_id=search%3A5%3A30%2C10%2C20. from the web- Messina, J. J., & Messina, C. M. (1999-2007). Nonverbals. Retrieved from Coping.org website:http://www.coping.org/dialogue/nonverbal.htm Two complex research questions that I came up with are how does non-verbal communication affect how people react to others, and how much of our comunication with others consists of non-verbal communication. Two other databases that I would use to search for more information would be britannica online and google scholar.