How Children Impact Their Parents’ Sport Fandom

How Children Impact Their Parents’ Sport Fandom

Academic Level : Bachelor Paper details The topic is very broad but please go into detail about it. The draft should be at least 4-5 full pages long (half of the final version), not including the title page or references page. You must include references with your draft. The draft should be 12-point, Times New Roman font and double-spaced. Make sure to use proper APA style and citation. ntroduction:These guidelines are intended to provide you direction in writing your research papers. They are not exhaustive, but merely provide guidance in your writing. There will be some specifics on here, but by and large, I cannot tell you how to write your paper; that is your job. You are expected to write a research paper that does not merely summarize a topic but instead critically analyzes a topic and offers a discussion based upon previous research findings as well as your own opinion injected into the paper. You will be expected to offer critical analysis and thinking to your topic, not just talk and talk for pages and pages. Topic and Cases:It is your job to choose a topic that is neither too broad (e.g., Drugs and Sports) nor too narrow (e.g., a topic with no research on it). You need to have researched your topic before you decide upon it. It will be difficult for you to write a paper on a topic for which you cannot find any previous research. These are not opinion papers and should not be written as such. These are research papers, and they should reflect it. You should start by looking up peer-reviewed articles on your topic of choice. Google should not be your first avenue of research. Articles from ESPN or Sports Illustrated should only be used sparingly – they are not peer-reviewed sources. You may use the Troy Libraries homepage to search in a variety of databases for articles on a particular topic, such as gender issues in sport. Then, while reading those articles for your topic, you can see other articles cited that you can then go and find. You will need to use journal articles for the bulk of your paper.Format:You are expected to produce your papers with Microsoft Word, using 12-point Times New Roman font and double-spacing, except on your References page. You are expected to use APA 6th edition formatting throughout your paper. If you are not familiar with this formatting, you need to either purchase an APA manual (Amazon is a good, cheap place), check out a manual from a library, or use a variety of online resources dedicated to APA formatting:ohttp://www.apastyle.org/ (look at the Tutorials here)ohttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ohttp://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/index.aspx?doc_id=796ohttp://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citapa.htmThe formatting must be throughout the paper, including References. You will lose points for failing to use proper APA formatting.Your paper needs to be a minimum of 8 pages and a maximum of 10 pages. The Title Page and References do not count in this number. Make sure you are not filling your paper with “fluff” just to get the pages required. Outline:The basic outline of your paper should be as follows:1. Title Pagea. Tell me your title, class, and date.2. Introductiona. Introduce the subject of your paper. It may help to mention recent developments in the issue/subject. b. The Introduction should feed into your next section.3. Statement of Problem/Issuea. Tell me why this is an important issue.b. Have other studied this before? If so, why is it important to do further research? If not, how is the issue important?!4. Literature Reviewa. This will be the bulk of your paper. b. You are reviewing and summarizing the literature/cases on your given topic.c. Talk about other research in this area. What have other scholars found? 5. Discussiona. This is where your opinion starts to come into play. Don’t just tell me that Title IX needs to be done away with, tell me why that is a reasoned stance and support it with research.6. Conclusiona. The ending to your paper. Don’t overlook this. It needs to tie everything together.7. Referencesa. Need to be in APA formatb. You must include at least 10 peer-reviewed sources (i.e., journal articles) and at least 3 other sources (cases, other articles, books, etc.). DO NOT plan on writing most of your paper off of website information or Sports Illustrated articles.c. WIKIPEDIA IS NOT A SOURCE!!! d. Your book cannot count toward your source total, but you can use it as a source. There are articles cited in the book chapters – pull them and use them.e. Make sure to follow proper formatting!i. EXAMPLE:Baker, T. A., Connaughton, D. P., Zhang, J. J., & Spengler, J. O. (2007). Perceived risk of terrorism and related risk management practices of NCAA Division IA football stadium managers. Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport, 13(2), 145-179.