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Women Leaders in Athletics

This is my last post. My goodbye. The following graphic is one I created in hopes of bringing awareness to an issue I researched in a recent paper for my CTW course. Unfortunately I had to cut up the infographic … Continue reading

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Research in CTW

We did a lot of researching this quarter… and along with that came some reading about researching. For example: Bizup’s article on B.E.A.M.and Klien’s article on hunting vs. gathering mode of research Here are the two blog posts I wrote … Continue reading

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Essay—>Infographic

The Project: It started with a 2200-word essay on the barriers women athletic directors face. It ended with an infographic designed to inform teens and young adults of how few women leaders there are in athletics. The Transition: The path to … Continue reading

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Momentum

I recently discovered that many people use the Chrome application Momentum. It is basically a screensaver for your internet browser. I have been using for about a year, but I thought that it not at all popular. My sister forced me … Continue reading

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Multimodal Assignment

For my Critical Thinking and Writing class we wrote a 2000-2500 word research paper on a topic of our choice. I chose to research women athletic directors. Now we are transitioning to a new project . The main stipulation is that … Continue reading

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Our Class Took a Field Trip!

That is, a field trip to the library on campus. It was pretty adventurous. The librarian Gail, had a lesson prepared on integrating sources into our research paper. Specifically, how to introduce our sources to our audience. The Quote Hamburger Our … Continue reading

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Source Map

Here it is as promised! The comprehensive view of how my sources relate to one another.  I initially thought my research paper would be something about the lack of women in leadership. It did end up that way, but as … Continue reading

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Research on the Lack of Women Athletic Directors

For an essay the going to write my Critical Thinking and Writing course, we were asked report in blog form on the conversation that is already happening around our essay topic. Basically, how has academia, the public or others interpreted this … Continue reading

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Visual Source Relationships

In class today I created this depiction of source interactions (pictured below). I had just done a similar thing with my words as I wrote the first first sentences literature review on these sources. However, the image was a much better way … Continue reading

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Kantz Even Find the Words

In “Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively”  Margaret Kantz uses a college student, Shirley, as an example to showcase difficulties faced by students in writing analytic research papers. Kantz points out concepts such as the rhetorical triangle which allows students to identify the … Continue reading

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