RJA #15b: Reflection on What You Learned

I learned a lot about how to use the online databases. As my career as a student, learning how to use the databases will be vital for my work as I continue my studies.

RJA #15a: Word Cloud

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RJA #14: Annotated Bibliography, Part 2

1) English, Jane. Sex Equality in Sports. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2001. 211-18. Print.- This is one of the books that i used for one of my sources. It supported my arguments better than any of my other sources. It explains how everyone is eligible to basic benefits. For example, Sports are about having fun, good exercise, and the ability to learn from the experience.

2) Berlow, Lawrence. Sports Ethics. Santa Barbara, Ca: ABC-CLIO, 1994. 41-44. Print.- This is one of the books that I used as a source. It was great because it supported many of the arguments that I presented. It was basically about sexism in sports and how everyone has an equal right to play, not because of build, strength, or anything like that, but ability.

3) www.infoplease.com/spot/womeninsportstimeline2.html- This was an online source, I will properly format this in my final paper. This was a website that showed a timeline of all the great things that women have accomplished in sports.

4) www.hayleywickenheiser.com/bio.html -this website was a bibliography of one the women that I use in my paper to support women's competition in sports.

5) (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/extramustard/03/28/25.toughest.athletes/1.html) -this website gave me a list of some of the toughest athletes around. Among these MEN in the list, one woman showed up, Hayley Wickenheiser.

6) Gender and Sexual Equality in Sports- this periodical helped me out a lot. In this periodical, it mentioned things that had to do with equality. It had many points that supported my arguments and also showed me the opposing views that I am going to use in my paper.

RJA #13a: Field Research Report

My field research was basically a survey conducted on athletes on campus and random students. My survey was simple.

1a. Do you think women should be able to compete with men in sports?
1b. Why?

I asked 10 female athletes and 10 male athletes. After I asked the athletes, I asked 10 random students.

It surprised me to see that most of the girls didn't want to compete with guys. Not because they were afraid to lose or anything like that, but that they enjoyed just playing with girls.

Many of the male athletes responded in the same way. "It isn't about who's better, but it's about who you play with." A male athlete said this because he really didn't care if they played together or not. He was more interested in just playing the game with friends and other class mates.

Many of the random students didn't really care, so many just responded with a, "yea, i guess." Which really didn't help me at first. Then made me realize that I can use it to my advantage in my paper.

RJA #13b: Annotated Bibliography, Part 1

English, Jane. Sex Equality in Sports. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2001. 211-18. Print.- This is one of the books that i used for one of my sources. It supported my arguments better than any of my other sources. It explains how everyone is eligible to basic benefits. For example, Sports are about having fun, good exercise, and the ability to learn from the experience.

Berlow, Lawrence. Sports Ethics. Santa Barbara, Ca: ABC-CLIO, 1994. 41-44. Print.- This is one of the books that I used as a source. It was great because it supported many of the arguments that I presented. It was basically about sexism in sports and how everyone has an equal right to play, not because of build, strength, or anything like that, but ability.

www.infoplease.com/spot/womeninsportstimeline2.html- This was an online source, I will properly format this in my final paper. This was a website that showed a timeline of all the great things that women have accomplished in sports.

www.hayleywickenheiser.com/bio.html -this website was a bibliography of one the women that I use in my paper to support women's competition in sports.

RJA #12a: Progress Report

I am making great progress. My paper is almost done. I had a minor set back by losing my flash drive and having to retype everything, but now I have mostly all my things back on track. Things I need to work on are just my work cited page and making sure I get 3500 words in my paper. I will have my paper done before December 1st.

RJA #12b: Presentation Plan

For my presentation, I will most likely just talk about my view on the topic first. After that, I plan on telling both sides of the argument. I will first go through the arguments of the people who are against women competing in sports. Then I will explain the arguments of the people who are for women competing in sports. After that, I plan on just wrapping up with my sources.

RJA #7a: Internet Research Tools

I usually use the search engine "Google". The reason why I use Google is because that was the only search engine I knew. At school, Google was the search engine that all my teachers recommended that I used. I also use Google because it is easy to use. Some things that I don't like about it is that the results that show up are so vast.... I don't know where to start. I also don't ahve the willingness to go past 3 pages, I might be able to go up to 5 pages if I really needed something. Now that I have been introduced to many more search engines, I will start testing many of them out.

RJA #6a: Periodical Articles

Name(s) of author(s): Bethany Shifflett and Rhonda Revelle

Title of article:GENDER EQUITY IN SPORTS MEDIA COVERAGE: A REVIEW OF THE NCAA NEWS

Title of periodical:

Volume and issue number (if available): Vol. 18, No. 2,

Date: 1994

Pages on which article appears: 144-150


http://jss.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/18/2/144

RJA #6b: Search Strings

women AND non-contact sports, discrimination AND professional sports AND women, women AND job opportunities+women+non-contact sports, +women+salary+professional sports - contact sports,

RJA #6c: Protopage

My Protopage

RJA #5c: Checking Search Strings

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RJA #5b: Finding Books

I haven't actually looked for books... I have just looked for internet articles and journals, I was going to look into the books this week.

RJA #5a: Finding Reference Articles

I went to Delicious and looked up Gender Sports and Gender Equity. I came to find some sites that interested me and so I decided to bookmark them.

http://delicious.com/sammmmju

A couple of the sites that I bookmarked are in my delicious account.

RJA #4c: Checking Research Questions

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RJA# 4b: Writing Search Strings

women AND non-contact sports, discrimination AND professional sports AND women, women AND job opportunities



+women+non-contact sports, +women+salary+professional sports - contact sports,

RJA #4a: Generating Keywords

Words that are related to my main words.

Should women be allowed to compete with men?

Females
Permitted
Against
Males

Entertainment>Professional Sports> Gender> Discrimination.

RJA #3c: Developing Research Question

"Should women be able to compete with men in professional sports?"

"Should women get paid the same salary as men do in professional sports?"

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RJA #3b: Narrowing Research Topic

My original topic was professional sports, but that topic is way to broad. I decided to narrow it down to four main topics: gender discrimination, drug use, media, and pay. As I started writing down ideas I decided to put pay and gender discrimination together, due to the fact that women get paid much less then men and men get paid way too much for throwing a ball around. Afterwards, my topic became gender discrimination within the sports. Not with pay, but the fact that women do not compete with men. So I decided to research why women are not allowed to compete with men.

RJA #3a: Exploring Research Topic

When researching, I usually use google. Ms. Clark has introduced the class to a several sites that may benefit my researh such as: Google Scholar, Google Blog Search, Technorati, Ice Rocket, Addictomatic, Citizendium, Scholarpedia, and Debatepedia.


As I go on, I will add more sites to my list.

RJA #2b: Research Topic

The topic I chose to research was gender discrimination in sports. I chose this topic because I enjoy sports and at the same time with a culture that is yearning for equality between male and female, I thought that it would be interesting to research this topic. I also want to see if my view on this topic will change after doing research. I will be looking into things such as: pay, preformances,etc.

I know that female pro sports players are paid drastically lower than men. I also know that there is the debate whether women can't even keep up with men when it comes to athletic preformance. I know more, but nothing is coming to mind at the moment... as time goes on, I will add more.

I don't know alot about this topic as well. I don't know the current arguements of both sides. I have no idea if women are making any progress in eliminating this gender discrimination in professional sports. What actions are they taking to overcome this?

RJA #2a: Possible Topics

I first chose gun control, but I decided to change my topic. I have changed my topic to professional sports. Professional sports is my general idea, my topic would be gender discrimination in sports...

RJA #2c: Delicious Account

My Delicious Account...

Research Journal Assignment #1: Areas of Academic Interest

• Religion
  
• Capitol Punishment
  
• Discrimination
  
• Environment
• Gun control
• Abortion
• War
• Education
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