Start Time: 4:48 p.m. Sun is beginning to go down and it’s a bit windy so it’s probably getting colder outside. Mother is sitting with her two little chicks in the nest. Little chicks observing their surroundings at 4:51 p.m. Mother looks like it’s starting to fall asleep at 4:56 p.m. End Time: 5:01 p.m.
Author: jdecrisantis
Start Time: 3:40 p.m. Weather appears to be sunny and a little windy. Both little chicks in the nest. Parents must be out looking for the chicks’ next meal. Chick #1 is sleeping at 3:45 p.m. and Chick #2 is awake. At 3:51 p.m., Chick #1 is still sleeping while Chick #2 is looking around at it’s environment. End Time: 3:52 p.m.
Learning Outcome 5: Document their work using appropriate conventions (MLA). Learning Outcome 6: Control sentence-level error (grammar, punctuation, spelling).
By clicking below you will find how I integrated sources into my writing.
Learning Outcome 4: Be able to critique their own and others’ work by emphasizing global revision early in the writing process and local revision later in the process.
Introduction: Below is an entry I have written based on the reading “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers.” This story explains how to review an essay to allow a person to understand there’s a deeper story to their writing that should be shown.
Journal Entry: Based on Nancy Sommers selection on revision, the importance and significance of peer revision is examined and explained. Sommers states how some reviews are just going through a paper and rewording some sentences. This isn’t really that helpful because the sentences are just stating the same exact ideas except in different words. But with a fresh set of eyes, the ‘something larger’ can be better identified by sensing what was wrong and working from there.
Learning Outcome 3: Employ techniques of active reading, critical reading, and informal reading response for inquiry, learning, and thinking.
Journal Entry:
Motivation for physical activity: Differentiating motives for sport and exercise
Participation is an experiment to compare the motivation of college students both male an female to do team sports vs to work out. The purpose of the article is to extend the comparison of sport participation and exercise motivation. By doing this, the article is trying to indicate the need to study physical activity, motivation, and behavior. The study shows a relation between the two instead of a cause and effect. The article provides statistics that show evidence towards less motivation for exercise and more motivation for sports.
The results of this experiment supported the hypothesis, that college students are more prone to participate in a team sport rather than independent exercise. Their findings showed subjects were more likely to report intrinsic motives for playing sports versus exercising. These results were important because it affects a large population consisting of college students. The findings indicate that more studies on physical activity and behavior must be done in order for researchers to develop better programs.
Q1: “Analyses also revealed significant gender…” (page 91)
Why did the study use these five affects?
Q2: “Respondents were more motivated to…” (page 92)
Why do they think this?
Q3: We suggest the measurement of…” (page 93)
Why was the sample so highly differentiated?
I1: “Follow-up analysis of stress management…” (page 92)
I2: “Women’s greater concern for weight..” (page 93)
I3: “One of the underlying foundations…” (page 93)
C1: “This is the highest rated motives for…” (page 92)
I feel as though these motives relate to me on a personal level.
C2: “Again, this finding may well…” (page 93)
I seek to workout and to play sports.
C3: “Suggest that the motives associated…” (page 93)
I feel as though having a sport allows more motivation to get exercise more than lifting.
Learning Outcome 2: Be able to integrate their ideas with those of others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources.
Introduction: Below shows an annotated bibliography that I made in the early stages of my research paper to help guide me with supporting articles for my research. For each annotation, I have provided the claim I used in the article with support from my paper.
Annotated Bibliography:
Merga, M. K., & Booth, S. (2017). Investigating Debates Around Racism in Sport to Facilitate Perspective Transformation in the Secondary English Classroom. Journal of Transformative Education, 15(3), 184–202. https://doi.org/10.1177/1541344617692773
This article examines how the english classroom can be a place to explore different viewpoints through texts and how in sport, racism can be expressed in front of everyone quite abruptly.
Claim: I will be using their information about racism in sport to back up one of my viewpoints. Youth sports could be have a lasting impact in which discrimination would be out of the picture.
Support: Merga and Booth (2017) point to Carrington and McDonald (2002) who suggests that “sport is a particularly useful sociological site’ for examining contemporary racism, as ’it articulates the complex interplay of ‘race’, nation, culture and identity in very public and direct ways” (p. 2). Knowing that they believe in something completely opposite to what you believe in really means nothing if you’re working together to get points on your side of the scoreboard.
Ramón Spaaij (2015) Refugee youth, belonging and community sport, Leisure Studies, 34:3, 303-318, DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2014.893006
This article goes into detail about how refugee youth are given the opportunity to become apart of a community through sports.
Claim: This relates to the third solution of my essay which is the thought that communities can be brought closer together through sport and everything that comes along with sporting events.
Support: According to Ramón Spaaij, the forms of belonging that brought about by sports are from face to face experiences with other athletes as well as the way media and politics interpret images of ethnic minorities. Spaaij states the fact that interactions between people in sports are face to face. Guarding somebody on defense or trying to get by someone on offense. As well as communicating with the people on your team.
Rauscher, L., & Cooky, C. (2016). Ready for anything the world gives her? : A critical look at sports-based positive youth development for girls. Sex Roles, 74(7), 288-298. doi:10.1007/s11199-014-0400-x
This article explains the development of young girls participating in sports at early ages.
Claim: I think this can be very helpful in my essay because I can touch on the fact that girls and women deserve equal rights and sport is a great place to show that.
Support: Rauscher and Cooky state, “many programs have informally operated on the philosophy that sports programming itself can reduce risky behaviors and protect girls from the social problems they may encounter in their communities, such as gang activity and teen pregnancy” (Rauscher and Cooky, p. 290, 2016). I think this is huge because if sports have the ability to keep young children safe, then why not open up more sports centers and get kids involved from all ages.
Learning Outcome 1: Demonstrate the ability to approach writing as a recursive process that requires substantial revision of drafts for content, organization, and clarity (global revision), as well as editing and proofreading (local revision).
Introduction: By clicking the screenshot of my PowerPoint below, you will find how through sports we can limit and ultimately abolish discrimination. My first solution is having youth sports teams with players of multiple races and ethnicities. This will make teammates of different skin colors feel like brothers and sisters. My second solution is having youth sports coaches being of different races. Coaches can be seen as father or mother type figures. My third solution is the fact that sports have the ability to bring communities together. Kids coming from different backgrounds working together. This provides the opportunity to have fun and make friends.
