December 7, 2016

1. Pathos was used in my paper for the introduction to bring in a personal feel. This helped my audience relate and understand why I was researching this topic. To effectively writing persuasive writing you have to have logos which was used to justify and prove my findings while researching. 2. In the past when…

December 5, 2016

I believe overall I was very prepared for the CSW. My project was very appealing and caught the attention of people but didn’t always keep there attention. If I had to change one thing I would have gone in to the event with a better idea of what I would tell people or how I…

December 3 2016

For my multimodal project I made a trifold poster board with all my main points on it. I also included interesting and surprising facts to draw attention. Under my poster I tried to highlight the overall topic of injuries in cheerleading with a pyramid like model. On the boot I put my three main points…

November 21 2106

When blogging about our research it was really nice to get ideas out without it feeling so formal. I could often go back and look at my blog and use it for inspiration while writing. I also really liked looking up other topics that were similar to ours. It would have been nice if my…

November 14 2016

My paper touches on so many issues in the cheerleading world but they are all the cause of cheerleading not being a recognized sport. In a way I feel like making my presentation on cheer being a sport is too basic so I would do it on the inequalities of cheerleading in the sports world.…

November 9, 2016

Voting was a very hard decision for me. I was dead set on voting for Hillary for obvious good reasons. A week before voting the people in my life who were also voting for Hillary changed their minds and kept saying all these things that really had no proof. I am not that into politics…

October 31 2016

For my primary research I decided to do two surveys and two interviews and kind of compare them. I individually texted each member of my team here at Eastern my survey and documented their responses and I did the same for my old high school team. I found that my results varied not just by…

October 24 2016

While discussing at my table we all agreed that the process described in the article was very helpful. Everyone has their own way of editing their paper but it provided more in depth things to check for. Some individuals would find it a lot easier to just follow guidelines which are provided in the text.…

October 19, 2016

Cheerleading injury rates have increased because of its advancements in difficulty and it is not a recognized sport. Survey questions: All question pertain to cheerleading 1.How many years of experience do you have? 2. What position are you? (Base, Flyer, Backspot) 3.Have you ever been injured? if yes: area(s)… extent of injury (fracture, dislocation, etc.)… time out… how (tumbling,…

October 12, 2016

Most of the blogs I have looked at have a lot of personal relation to the authors. I can’t tell if thats a good thing or a bad thing yet because it would be interesting to see someone write about it without any bias. I’ve also found a few stories, one being a catastrophic injury…