I will show how history may have initially created these gender stereotypes, and how the media has helped to keep them alive.  I will also explain why the facts I've collected suggest that this issue of gender stereotypes will always be an issue, especially in sports.

History (gender portrayal)- Why these stereotypes came to be.
Media (How large sports are for the media)***-How it is such a large part of our lives, and how people are affected by it.
Involvement of Sports(fans)-How these stereotypes came to be maybe unintentionally
Leads into
Negative Attitude towards Women-(Whole point)***How these stereotypes have caused a negative attitude towards women, and other groups of people (gay)(race)

The 2 major stakeholders in my issue are the women athletes and the media, but there are also the male athletes, and the fans..  The women athletes have the media coverage on their events, even though there is not much coverage on their events on the first place.  The main reason these stereotypes are created is because of the media coverage so maybe the less the better? Maybe.  The other huge stakeholder is the media.  They have the decision of either televising women events, which could in turn create these stereotypes.  Or else they could choose not to cover those sports which would create a huge controversy with the women athletes.  Overall, the women would like to be televised because it shows that people care about what they are doing.  This is the main conflict in my issue, and if I elaborate it could become a section of my essay, which I am considering on adding!

Revisions

I think to revise my paper I will need to provide more information about the quotes that I included.  I need to try to relate them to my main purpose better so that it is clear to the reader what I am exploring.  Also I think that I need to make better connections between my different sections, I need to make the whole essay flow in a way that it is easy for the reader to understand.  My analysis is also lacking, I need to do more research to find certain quotes that show exactly what I am trying to explain so that I can provide good details to ceonnect with my overall purpose and issue that I am trying to address.  Overall, I need to just work on my essay so that it flows better and so that it addresses the issues that I am trying to explain. 

On the picture I included some of my group liked it and some did not. Personally I think it adds to the essay because it visually shows what I am trying to address, but I will need to think about it later if I would like to include or dismiss it from my paper.

The main claim I would like to address is how women are discriminated against in sports, but I don't think it will ever change because of how people are, and all of the factors that have an influence on why women are not thought of as the athletic type.

I tried to include sources that dealt with the different sections I included in my essay, but I think I will need to do more research to find quotes that flow better throughout my essay, and that show what I would like to show so that I can explain them more in depth and relate them to my purpose.

I think I just need to find sources that make better connections to my overall purpose.  I will use different sources for each seperate section and try to relate them to eachother to make my essay more clear.

I think the sources I have now are good for the sections but I will need to find more so that it makes that connection to the purpose.  I also need to cite my sources better because I had some trouble in that area as well.

8.2

Ruzich uses many different sources to support her claim but also to give background to even the history of coffee, which does not even deal with Starbucks.  She uses 29 different sources, and even though it is a relatively short paper. I noticed that all of these sources have a purpose, and make her paper more effective.  I like the way she used inquiry, and really made a connection between all of her sources so that the reader could not really question anything.  It was very clear, and I think thats what I learned from this essay the most.  The writer needs to make sure that everything is accounted for so that the point they are trying to make is as clear as possible, and makes sense to the reader.  Her sources do a number of things, from just facts and statistics to supporting how Starbucks is so successful in their marketing campaign.

Assignment 8

I really enjoyed the Starbucks essay.  I liked the way that she went about using inquiry, and also the issue that she was exploring was very fun and got me interested.  I think overall this is what I should strive for in my research she really showed all perspectives, and had good detail to back up her research.  She tried to show that even though it may look like Starbucks is a very good coffee shop that actually cares about their customers and the environment, or if it is all a business plan to get the customers to come back.  Overall I really enjoyed this essay, and it helped me to see what I need to do in my research.

The video we watching in class on Thursday really showed me that you need to look at all perspectives to write a good research paper.  If any are left out or can be questioned then the writer did not do there job.  I realized with my paper that I am only looking at the female perspective.  The articles that I have read have been very biased, and my research is very one sided so far.  I need to look deeper into the issue to find out what the male perspective is as well as why this issue is even being brought up, because reading all of these femenist articles is not helping my research. It is just making my paper very one sided and biased.

AB's

Marini, Margaret Mooney. "Sex and Gender: What Do We Know?." Sociological Forum, 5.1 (1990): 95-120.
This article focuses on the differences between the male and female gender.  It does not techically deal with sports but it is useful in the fact that it compares the differences and similarities between the genders, and why some of the stereotypes are made.

Love, Adam, and Kimberly Kelly. "Equity or Essentialism." Gender & Society, 25.2 (2011): 227-249.

This article deals specifically with the femenist idea of women being treated unfairly in sports.  This article seems very biased towards women, but can be useful to point out what femenists think and why they come to these conclusions.  This article may be useful for the women's side of the argument, but I will need to do further research to find out the men's perspective on the issue.

Washington, Robert, and David Karen. "Sport and Society." Annual Review of Sociology, 27.1 (2001): 187.

This article is a sociological article for examining the issues of gender, as well as race, and class.  These issues are a very important part of the society.  These issues are also very important to notice in sport because things may effect the way a person thinks or makes decisions.  This article deals with not only race but a variety of different things that people discrimiate about and can be useful because it does not only focus on gender and we can maybe have a better idea of why people think the way they do when we see more issues.

Cooky, Cheryl, Faye Wachs, Michael Messner, and Shari Dworkin. "It's Not About the Game: Don Imus, Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Media." Sociology of Sport Journal, 27.2 (2010): 139-159.

This is a very good article for the question I currently have.  It is a sociological article that explains the image that women athletes currently have, and why men have more media coverage.  This article is biased towards the women's side, but I think for a good reason.  Women do not get as much media coverage as men, and that is the main issue I am trying to explore.

Comeau, Gina, and Anthony Church. "A Comparative Analysis of Women's Sport Advocacy Groups in Canada and the United States." Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 34.4 (2010): 457-474.

This article talks about the same issues of gender in sport, but I think this article is very useful because it is about Candian sports and not in America which puts more variety into my research.

Lemons, Mary, and Monica Parzinger. "Gender Schemas: A Cognitive Explanation of Discrimination of Women in Technology." Journal of Business and Psychology, 22.1 (2007): 91-98.

This is another article that deals specifically with women being discrimated against.  It deals with my question because women are being descrimated against in sports, and not the workplace but it is still the same issue that is being talked about.

Knoppers, Annelies, and Mary McDonald. "Scholarship on Gender and Sport in Sex Roles and Beyond." Sex Roles, 2010, Vol.63(5-6), P.311-323, 63.5-6 (2010): 311-6),.  This article explains the last 35 years, and  shows what differences have been deveolping with women in sports.  This article also shows perspectives from different countries to help get a diverse group to help show how things have been changing.

Buysse, Jo Ann, and Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert. "Constructions of Gender in Sport: An Analysis of Intercollegiate Media Guide Cover Photographs." Gender and Society, 18.1 (2004): 66-81. This article focuses on College sports and how the media depicts women as feminine and much less likely to be active, which is not the case.  It also explains how the media chooses certain photos to show how men are the more masculine and active gender.

Ruel, Erin, Marni Brown, and Stephanie Medley-Rath. "High School Students' Attitudes Toward Providing Girls Opportunities to Participate in Sport." Sociology of Sport Journal, 28.2 (2011): 239-253.   This article explains how stereotypes are made from even high school students.  It explains how the male athletes have a negative attitude towards the female student athletes which overall could have an impact on why people have come to see the stereotyping of women in sport increase.

Assignment 4b

I took your advise and combined two of my questions into one question that I think does show inquiry.  I choose to look at How does technology effect gender stereotypes in sports?  I combined my question How does the media stereotype against gender? and What does technology do to effect sports? I think these two questions alone could be topics for a research paper but when you combine them you can really do alot of research and find alot of things to write about.  I don't think that there will be any problem with trying to find enough information to compose a 10 page research paper on this question because it is so controversial and up for disscussion. 


I used the keyword technology and gender stereotypes in sports and I found an article entitled "Scholarship on Gender in Sport in Sex Roles and Beyond" This article explores the roles of women and sport in the last 35 years.  It explains how and why this stereotypes may have been created as well as how there is room for more research in this topic.  They explore not only the USA but also other countries and also a variety of diffent age groups and skill levels which is very useful.  This article is composed of alot of data and alot of good useful information about women in the last 35 years.  I think this would be a good overall start for me to at least look at why these stereotypes have been made and then go on later to see why technology may or may not have been a contributing factor to these stereotypes.  Overall I think this is a good place to start but I will need more information if I am going to look at all aspects of the question that I have chosen.

I found that rewording and rephrasing my searches helped concetrate my seaches to what I specifically wanted the article to be about.  Also, I knew that I wanted to explore technology in sports but I didnt know the question I wanted to ask so I put technology in sports into the databases, and I found that it helped me find questions and topics that I could write a reasearch paper about.  I also used this same strategy for stereotyping gender sports in the media and it helped me find some information that could be very usefull when I go about starting and developing my research paper.  These questions could be a start to a good research paper, and I will continue to try new things to help get the best results and find an article that is about what I really want to write about.

I used keywords like:
gender in sports
technology in sports
change in sports
gender stereotype in sports
etc..

Inquiry deals with your own questions which you investigate and develop, and then show that you understand the response to the reader.  There should not be a right or wrong answer to this question, it should just explore the question with critical thinking and to be able to make it clear to the reader to get them to think critically about the topic also



1.  How has performance enhancing drugs effected sports?
2. Will there ever be a limit in skill for professional sports?
3. How do concussions change professional football?
4. Why does the media stereotype against gender?
5. How does the media of professional sports effect young boys and girls?
6. How has technology effected the rising skill level of athletes?

Assignment 3

Byrson is an Author that uses a untraditional approach to his reasearch writing.  He is very informative and also uses a great deal of detail to make his argument known.

I think Byrson's approach as an author does work in our alternative approach to research writing.  He sets up his essay with alot of information, and he has a great use of inquiry throughout his entire essay, which I think is how you relate to the certain topic that you are addressing.  I think he has a great use of inquiry because he focuses everything back to his own life, and his own beliefs.  He writes, "We are so used to having a lot of comfort in our lives-to being clean, warm, and well fed-that we forget how recent most of that is." He admits to not knowing much about how things used to be but then he researched and found facts that he included to show that even though he was not very knowledgable in that topic that he could go on to compare life today to life then, and what happened to make the lives we have now possible.
  I like the way he would almost tell a story, and then at the end relate everything together to show what he thought of everything as a whole.  He did this a few times throughout his essay, the first being the house, and the second being the kitchen.  I think this overall approach is very rich in inquiry because you are relating everything back to yourself, and showing the differences and what had to happen for how life is today. 
His approach is a great example of the Alternative way of writing research because he does not follow any guideline.  He simply tells what he knows, tells what he found, and then relates both of them together into one big idea.  I found this essay to be very effective, and I enjoyed it very much.

"Building a Mystery" is a research paper as well as a personal essay that tries to show how research papers lack in certain areas.  In this essay the authors agrue that research writing has to much of a template, and that it is not helping the writer understand what a research paper should contain. I found it very interesting how they composed a research paper about research papers in general. It made it much more interesting for me to be able to look at it from their point of view and be able to finally relieze that research papers do not all need to follow the same format.  I think this way can overall help students to become more free in their research papers and help them to write about something that they are passionate about instead of writing accroding to a certain template.

The author's do a good job of showing what research papers are not doing in writing today.  Many research papers do not let the writer be free in what they would like to write about.  You cannot force someone to become instantly in love with a certain topic, and I think the author's felt this way when they composed this essay.  The writer needs to have a certain additude toward that topic to become an effective research paper.  The author's of this essay were very passionate about this topic and it showed because they could form their own ideas about what they thought. 

In conclusion, this essay was very effective because the author's were able to be free in their own ideas, and write about something that actually meant something to them instead of simply being told to write about a certain topic.  I found this essay to be very enjoyable to read, and it gave me new insight when I go about writing my next paper.

Assignment 1 part 2

The first thing I noticed about this essay was how the author incoorporated many different strategies to prove his point.  He compared multiple different facts, and observations that he had which helped him to distiguish what the problem was, or if there even was a problem in the first place.  He analyized all of the different possiblities to find the option that he found most appropriate.  All of these strategies enhanced his writing and made it easy for the reader to follow, and to relate to.  His use of analysis gets the reader to think about the different possiblities, and make there own decisions on what they believe to be true.