Drafting Ideas

My first and second draft are total different papers with the same concept. In my first paper, it was just a bunch of ideas thrown together. All the information I collected was just piled up together. I was letting all my ideas out without really organizing the paper. But most of my work is really repetitive in my first draft. Leaving me with a lot more work during my second draft to find other information and find out why it is useful. 

During my second draft I recollected all the information I had and the new sources I found. I went through my first draft and organized information together that was closely related. I moved things around and added new information that was more relevant to my topic. I also had to get rid of useless information and repetitive information as well. There was a lot of rewording of the same topic and I had to figure a way to change that so it wasn’t that way. But there is still some work in progress, but I am trying to make my second draft has more ideas than my first, so I can complete it and make it final.

As for my product for my capstone, there are some ideas that are being considered. I would like to create an album – somewhat - of what all the facial expressions looks like and what key signs make them recognizable all over the world. I would gather headshots (pictures) of someone making the faces then use Ekman’s research to help me identify what makes it that face.

Another idea I was considering was making a video; first playing it without sound. I would ask the viewer what their idea of the video was and what they think the person is feeling during that scene. After getting an idea from what they know about facial expressions from my presentation, I would hope they could get an idea of what they are feeling. Then after asking a few questions, I would play the video with sound and see how closely their answer was correct. I could even just do the opposite. I could play a video with just sound (of two different people) and see what the viewer thinks is happening. This could show them how important facial expressions are because they won’t be able to tell the true emotion of someone when they aren’t looking at their face.

Those are only a few ideas that I have come up with so far. Hopefully, I will be able to narrow down my product idea for my presentation soon.

New Findings...

Some of my new findings have been that not only doctors learn how to understand nonverbal communication, but other health care professionals should also learn these techniques as well. Many facial expression research has been done to recognize common expressions. There are many universal facial expressions, especially the 6 basic ones-- happy, surprised, disgust, content, sad and fear. Even though 93% of communication is presented through nonverbal, do we really understand?? It is hard for some to truly get a since of what someone is feeling when we can not recognize basic emotions and their meanings. 

This is what many health care professionals do not understand when they are talking to their clients. Sometimes doctors do not see the results that they truly want for their patients because they are not understanding how the patient is really feeling. For doctors to have the best results for their patients, they should take the time out to see how they react to certain questions and get a feel about what they are truly feeling about certain tasks the doctor is willing to take to help them.

This leads me to believe that doctors don't understand their patients as well as the nurses. Only because the doctor is there to assign what the patient should and should not do to get better. But the true care taker are the nurses. I believe that all health care professionals should be able to read facial expressions so they can receive true results and more confidents from their patients as well.