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Kinesiology 100 - Online Resources: Professor Macias - SP2020: Your Assignment

Kineseology and Fitness

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Understanding Your Assignment

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  • How many pages?
  • How many sources?
  • What kinds of sources?
    • Books
    • Articles
    • Websites
  • What format?

Your professor is your best resource to answer these questions.

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Research Basics - Step by Step

Breaking Down The Research Process  

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The following outline gives a simple and effective strategy for finding information for a research paper and documenting the sources you find. Depending on your topic and your familiarity with the library, you may need to rearrange or recycle these steps. Adapt this outline to your needs. We are ready to help you at every step in your research.

  1. Choose a topic - or have one assigned
  2. Understand your topic
    • Background reading
    • Consider a main focus
    • Refine your topic
    • Make a list of your keywords and concepts
  3. Search Sources
    • Find Books
    • Find Articles
    • Find Websites
  4. Write your paper - Informative, Analytical, Argumentative, Critical
  5. Cite your sources

            Professor Macias
            KIN 100 - Spring 2020

            Your Assignment

            An evidence-based research project designed to identify, study, and apply Kinesiology concepts.

            The purpose of this project is to apply what we have learned about Kinesiology to a sport. This is an evidence-based project where research of the literature will be conducted to identify and study Kinesiology concept application.

            Students will create a minimum 3 page paper and a PowerPoint presentation which focuses on one sport and present this sport from the perspective of sport psychology, motor behavior, exercise physiology, biomechanics, philosophy, and sports sociology.

            You must have at least 4 sources cited in your paper. You may use your book as one source.


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