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NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY (COM 4930 )
LIBRARIAN: Dr. Darlene Ann Parrish

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The selected sources listed below are useful for finding books and articles on nonverbal communication in a diverse society.

FAU LIBRARIES CATALOG
 

• Subject searching:  Go to the "Basic Search" screen and from the "Browse Organized Lists" menu and select "Subjects, All."  Type in the following Library of Congress subject headings (with dashes for subheadings):

Nonverbal communication

Nonverbal communication--Cross-cultural studies

• Keyword searching:  Go to the "Advanced Search" screen and type in your keywords using "Title Keyword(s)." (Example:  ethnicity and communication)

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Electronic Databases are available from the FAU Libraries home page at http://www.fau.edu/library by selecting "Research Resources" or "Quick Links" and then "Indexes/Databases". When accessing the databases remotely, be sure to select the link for the "EZproxy" server.

• Communication Abstracts
  Provides references to articles on nonverbal communication located in journals, books, papers and reports, primarily.
   

• Communication Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
  This database gives access to full text articles from approximately 19 journals covering various topics, such as nonverbal and verbal communication.

• Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History  Gives access to articles in journals, magazines and newspapers from ethnic, minority and native presses, with some articles in Spanish.
   

• Expanded Academic ASAP
  This general index gives references to articles (some with the full text) on communication across cultures, from a wide range of periodicals.
   

• GenderWatch  Provides references to articles on women's issues in scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, regional publications, books and special reports.

• Humanities Full Text  This database includes some full text articles on subject areas including communications, gender studies and many others.

• Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  Provides access to articles (some with the full text) on subject areas such as family studies, child development, cross-cultural psychology, educational psychology, sociology of race and ethnicity and many others.

• PsycINFO 
  This electronic resource is very comprehensive and provides references to articles in the area of psychology and related disciplines in the international literature.  The coverage is from 1806 to the present.
   

• Social Sciences Full Text
  This database includes articles from journals, books, and papers on such subject areas as ethics, family studies, gerontology, minority studies, gender studies and others.
   

EVALUATING INFORMATION

If you are not using one of the "Electronic Databases" listed above or other databases via the FAU Libraries Electronic Collection, you need to consider some of the following questions when evaluating information from the Internet:

1. How authoritative is the source of information?

2. How accurate is the information?

3. How reliable is the information?

4. How current is the information?

5. How relevant is the information to my topic?

CITING REFERENCES

• REF LB2369 .G53 2003  Gibaldi, Joseph.  MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  6th ed.  New York:  Modern Language Association, 2003.

• MLA Style Electronic Formats (by Dr. Mary Ellen Guffey)
  This "quick" guide to citing sources found on the Internet provides the important components of a citation, with examples.

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