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Abstract

College sports are one of the most talked about debate in the United States. This study examined 20 student athletes at University of Louisville to see if college athletes should be paid. All players varied between different sports and that put more of an impact on the results. The results that have been taken show that most students strongly agree with getting paid for playing their sport.

Introduction

Currently in the United States some college players are getting paid on a scholarship. This Varies on how good of a player you are in your sport coming out of high school, however in recent research college athletes are needing more than just a scholarship. In this experiment we are seeing if it’s a struggle or their happy with the treatment of money they get.

Method

Participants:

For this experiment there were 20 participants total in the survey. Seven of them were females and thirteen of them were males used in the data research. All participants were various ages of college athletes at the University of Louisville. All participants were to fill out a printed out survey about their opinions on whether or not college athletes should be paid. They were given the option strongly agree, agree, disagree, and strongly disagree. After asked the main question they were then asked if they should be paid in scholarships or in a salary payment. Then asked lastly what sport they personally play at school.

Observation:

These groups of students were face to face asked questions that were put together, over a period of days. After all 20 students were asked the same question, and while most people said strongly agree a couple said strongly disagree. When interviewed on why the couple said no they said they don’t need more than there school paid for.

Results

In this table it shows the results of the students being asked the question “should college athletes be paid?”  It shows that most students strongly agree on topic and a few agree and just a couple strongly disagrees.  Out of the 16 that fell under the strongly agreed column, 5 were basketball players, 7 were football players, 1 was cheer and 3 were soccer.  Under the agree column 2 of them were swimmers and 1 was a football player. Lastly under the strongly disagree column there was one Person that voted and they were a cheerleader.

Figure 1

·         Amount of students

that surveyed 

Figure 1:

In figure one it represents the amount of students that’s believe college athletes should be paid.

Discussion

This study suggests that the more time put into the sport the more strongly you agree on getting paid for the sport that you play. With a bigger variety of sports that our played on campus that could of been interviewed could possibly change the average of how many people agree on college athletes being paid. Further research could happen by having more questions asked and more students participating.

research questions

Should College athletes be paid?
yes or no
If yes,

Scholarship or real salary?
yes or no

All sports or just some sports?
yes or no

topics

My first research question is should college athletes be paid? Im going to ask the class and get there survey and then im going to ask 5-10 college athletes on campus and see there point of view.
My other question will be do you think domestic violence happens beteen lower income people or higher income people? I'm going to survey the class for this question and this is what i wrote my last research topic on so i have alot of research on the topic.

reflection on remediation

There were some challenges while changing my research paper into a media presentation. i changed my paper into a powerpoint presentation. It would of been really hard to get all the detail out of my paper just using the presentation but having the voice over really helped me explain what i was trying to say because i didnt want to write to much on the powerpoint to loose a person attention.

My audience didnt really change from the paper to the powerpoint because it was both directed to people that wanted research on domestic violence. there were pictures and talking to help someone more clearly understand what i was explaining but overall it was directed to the same audience.

My resorces in my powerpoint were ore pictures. although my pictures werent describing what i was trying to say it was a better image to tie back my main points that i was talking about on the slides.

IMRaD

IMRaD stands for introduction, methods and discussion. both of them relate back to a research topic but just set up and formatteed diferrently. the introduction and results are a little bit the same. both states what your topic is, and also your findings, data, and evidence you found to backup your topic goes in results.

Some things that are different is that in the IMRaD, you are coming up with a hypothesis. it could support or not support your topic. something else is the discussion part. its discussing if you yourself has got the research needed. to make comparisons with other studies. theses paragraphs talk back to what you've been writing about in your paper.

media

media blog

In the reading  about remediation  there are a bunch of different muti media ways to show my paper and we talked about many in class. For mine i have decided to do a power point. its what i see as easiest and clearest way to portray information without getting confused but also involved.

 I'm trying to do the voice over now so I'm hoping that works. I'm going to make each slide different so it catches the audiences attention in more of a media type of way then me just reading my paragraphs. I'm also going to add in some pictures with it to show examples of my text to make it seem more realistic.

Remeditian

Remeditian is transforming text into media form. like when they make a movie over a book alot of people are reading.

the best way i can make my paper into remediation would be making it a power point. i could have put bullet points of my main arguments i found in the research in the beginning of each slide and then my detail of each paragraph on the rest of the slide. i could also add in pictures to make it more in a media way.

another way is that i could record myself talking about my paper to a audience, i could add in more detail talking out loud and showing examples rather than a paper

refection #2

This paper was harder for me then the last paper.both papers weren't biased and both had to come from some type of research. i was directing the informational one to a group of kids so my audience was very easy to go off of rather than the basic general field of the research paper. i didn't get to the final draft because we haven't met so i cant touch base on that. i picked the topic domestic violence and narrowed it down to social standards and age. i broke it down with an outline and found things to disagree and not disagree with, i was trying to had in controversy with certain situations, i was looking for a lot on scholarly and non scholarly articles but i was finding just more scholarly then non. without having the peer repose it was more difficult for me to look and see how someone else is set up.

outline of paper

Thesis- domestic violence shouldn't be ended
add in controversy

Source 1 – agree or disagree

2 – agree and disagree (counter argument)
which states it is in the highest rate. 

3- agree
1.men or women are abused more

4- agree
African Americans or Caucasian

5-another disagree- some people were saying some people over react on what domestic violence is. i'm going to add in all aspects
6- agree –
what age is domestic violence 

7- agree
the facility that are opened 

Restate thesis and end with a detailed conclusion 

APA vs MLA

APA and MLA are similar because they are both citing information from a article, webpage or book. the use quotations in the beginning and the end of there cite.. they both have the same information as for example the author and date.

For the differences in the two at the end of the page MLA is presented "work cited" and MLA is presented "references". MLA you put the page number and APA you put the year . Arts and humanities are for MLA and social science papers are for APA. in MLA all major words are capitalized in APA on first words are capitalized.

research topic

Since we are doing a research paper on the topic of our degree. My research topic is how to lower Domestic violence.Crime rate has raised a ton. im going to show the facts of domestic violence and statics of it and the facts of ways to possibly lower it.

Reflection

        From writing this essay i learned various different things. i learned a lot about the criminal justice papers i would be writing but i didn't learn much about writing itself other than what i've already known or already learned. touching base back on the difference of academic and scholarly was probably the most useful thing that i have learned while writing this piece.
      What i had in mind for this degrees writing strategies were almost right on what i had in mind. they do a lot of informational research papers and use APA format, and more academic then scholarly papers.
       The most challenging thing when right this paper was probably relating the interview back to the articles that i found online. but the more in depth i went into reading the article you could start to see the similarities and then it became easier to write the paper. but at first i was confused on what i was really looking for.
         my main weakness in writing this piece was my transition and my introduction. i had a lot of trouble starting off paragraphs because i was mainly just stating what i did. after you pointed that out to me i went back and changed a lot of it and you can definitely see the change. also my thesis statement was a strong as it should be and i usually have a hard time writing those for some reason. i think i did a good job on directing back to the audience that was selected which was high school student and i think i did a good job a the work cited at the end of the essay and using good quotes and quotations.
         the conference was helpful but it wasn't so much a group conference for me because my partner couldn't make it. i think i got a lot of information out of it that i went right back and could change. it made all your comments on the word document understandable and making it easier to make my writing piece better. i personally think that group conferences are better than individual conferences though because you have someone else's mistakes to look off of then just your own. some things that you might not of got in your paper you might catch in theirs to make your own paper better. and even good things in the paper that you might want to touch base on in your own.

Thesis

The thesis was that the government should be able to make the decision on organ sales. Her major reason was donors need the money and that all should be fair. They had a lot of different arguments but over all it was very detailed.

Kyra Pelstring
Eng 102
Febuary 2nd 2015
       Wanting to have a criminology degree when you’re older took a lot more writing experience than I thought. I know coming into college you might think there’s a lot of writing pieces in general; which there is, but have you ever thought about the different type of writing pieces you might actually have to writing? Informational, persuasive, academic, nonacademic, scholarly? When I was picking this major I was thinking there would be a lot of research and statistic type papers. I interviewed 2 professors and a graduate student.
       I had a very good face to face interview with a graduate student from the University of Louisville that I’m going to mainly talk about. She majored in criminology just like me. I asked her a few questions that persuaded her writing experience. I asked first the main question “what type of writing pieces do you write overall”. Between her and the other professors I talked to they came back with very excellent responses. There Reponses and what type of papers they write are similar to what I had in mine. They write academic informational research papers and summary papers. Usually under the department of sociology or criminology.
        I also asked the graduated student what kind of format she usually wrote her papers in and she replied with “most of the time APA”. All of my life I have pretty much wrote MLA format and I’m sure most of you high school students do the same, but there’s never a hard adjustment in the two. She mentioned also how you list or bulletin in most of your papers trying to get your information across.
        An essay that I found from online I used to compare to some of the essay you would be writing if you were trying to be in the criminology major. One was a scholarly, I used
http://umm.edu/health/medical/reports/articles/stress . It was a academic based research. In the article it didn’t have any pictures and was more bullet with main factors and results. It wasn’t biased and was straight to the point. It had research database just like if were writing a paper for criminology major. There are also other options though
        
        Another was a summary article I found; it was non academic, http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bul/98/2/310/ . They have straight to the point of what there trying to say. They cite all there information at the top of their page in APA format. In the article it says “(1) whether a measure assesses support structure (the existence of relationships) or function (the extent to which one's interpersonal relationships provide particular resources) and (2) the degree of specificity (vs globality) of the scale. Special attention is given to methodological characteristics that are requisite for a fair comparison of the models.” They use a away off talking about what they want to say by making a number list and putting information in parentheses.
        Academic sources and scholarly sources are very similar but scholarly sources are a peer reviewed academic sources. If you’re going to be end up going into the same major I set myself to go into you will mainly be using a lot of academic research papers.
"Stress, Social Support, and the Buffering Hypothesis." APA PsycNET. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Feb. 2015.”
"Stress." University of Maryland Medical Center. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Feb. 2015.”

sources

on of the sources im picking to had into my paper is an informational report article. this article is under the university of Maryland medical center. the main purpose pf this a whole article is talking about stress. it had many statistics and wasn't a biased report. everything was labeled where it was supposed to be and gave good information has if it was a paper/article i would be writing for criminal justice

another one i had picked was from NY times and was an academic writing piece. it relates back to helping me realize what ill be doing later into my career.

the final essay i will use is called the internet journal of criminology. its a paper set up as if i was writing one in criminal justice and shows a lot of detail of what i would be doing. it has questions and answers from team members outside that have been asked so that its not just coming from there own knowledge and has back up. it was an academic writing

interview

            i have emailed all 3 of the people i was planning to interview. one of them have got back to me and  i'm having an interview with them by email. my profession that I'm planning on going into is criminal justice. i asked a professor here from Louisville a few of the questions i came up with. she came back with kinda elaborate answers but not the best as if i got to talk to her in person. she said that they do a lot of research papers and statics papers. she said papers are not there main strength as if it were like an English major but that it still takes an important role in getting your masters or bachelors degree in this major. that they analysis everything that there writing about most of the time. she said her her classes that she has taught that they usually write 3 to 4 papers a semester. which is understandable for a class. i'm hoping to hear back from the other 2 professors i have emailed so i can get more elaborate details but as of right now i only have the one professor

questions

1. What genre you typically use/ what type
2. how much time do you spend writing on a piece
3. how do you revise your essays
4. writing for bachelors or masters
5. how is your writing special to your field and different to other fields.

genre source

My source for this up coming essay is an informational report from a professor. it a non fiction report and has many resources in it to rely back to. another genre its kinda basing its self off is realistic fiction, based of what has happeded in true life and how papers are actually written, It has to do with criminal justice profession.  This will help me with my paper because it has a view point form other students in it. and since im writing to high school students it will relate back alot. The topic that im reading on relates back to a lot of hat ive already been writing so it shouldn't be hard to go off what there saying and my personally experience

First Paper

       For the assignment my goal is to write a informational report. i will be analyzing two academic and 2 non academic samples. I am going to be interviewing 2-3 writers and find there similirites and differences. I'm directing my whole paper towards a group of high school students and freshman college students, and wring this paper for them. my purpose is to increases there awareness of whatever profession i picked, if they have the same profession.

Rhetorical Situation

Rhetorical Situation,
         *communication to modify the perpective of atleast one other person,
         *speech that is persuasive to other people
         * helps us evaluate all situations

Old english paper

       I picked a essay i wrote called Summer Days. It was on a poem where she was telling her life and life experience’s through something else. This something else was a grasshopper. I directed my whole essay towards other people there were struggling with problems, younger teens especially because the essay talked about what death was. i had to bring up certain topics like metaphors and similes because i was reading and doing my essay off of a poem. i say in my essay "the grasshopper is metaphoring the way she lives". i also talk about how she’s reaching out to someone and looking for someone to talk to. i read it from her point of view and quotes of what she is saying specifically in the poem. i analyasis specific parts such as how its eyes wonder around looking at all of his surroundings. The grasshopper then washes his face and spreads his wings and fly’s away. The author Mary was trying to describe how much a human and grasshoppers and actions are the same.

Syllabus Questions

Kyra Pelstring

Eng 102

January 12 2015

        Reading through this syllabus I got the same general idea as to most classes I've taken here at Louisville. There are 2 most important things I look at on a syllabus. Those are the amount have days you can have absence or if you can have any. I don't want to go over those days and fail the class. The other main thing I look at is the assignments. I like to get a general view of what I'm going to be working with all semester long. In this course I didn't see any homework's that were too challenging, but did realize that a homework was due every class period. I will come to your office hours on Tuesday and Thursday from 11 to 1 if I have any questions through the semester.

            I didn't really have any specific questions over the syllabus. I think we will end up going over most in class. Except one. Do we get to re do any of the homework assignments if we get a bad grade on them, or is it just formal writing assignments?

               I look forward to being in this class on Tuesday and Thursday and meeting you and everyone else in the class!

Kyra, Introduction

Hi, my name is Kyra Pelstring. I'm 18 years old and a freshman here at Louisville. I came here with all of my best friends so they have made the experience here alot easier. I don't have a major picked out but right now i'm thinking about sociology or criminal justice. I'm not the best writer but English in general as never been to hard for me.