Throughout my
project this semester, there were several outcomes that I met through writing,
researching, and editing my own work. The diction of this paper clearly
indicates who the audience is that I wrote to, and words and phrases were
purposefully picked for that audience. I utilized different types of evidence
from different sources, such as online articles, data tables, and my own focus
groups. Proper MLA format was used in this paper to cite sources, indicate
quotes, and show paraphrases. Lastly, my work went through many phases of
drafting, proofreading, and editing to produce quality work.
I
demonstrated who my audience is and purposefully wrote to them by choosing
words and phrases sports fan would know and are able to relate to. The
introduction to my paper clearly shows what my paper is about and who it is
geared towards. I used the phrase, “knock the word “fanatical” out of the
park,” which is a baseball saying. I also talked about the show SportsCenter on
ESPN, which I would venture to say every sport fan knows about. Throughout my
paper, I continued to use words such as “king of the sports realm,” “players,”
“NL East Champions,” “gets second place,” and “hit home” that emphasized the
sports theme of my work. Another way I showed who the audience of this paper is
was not defining or defining certain terms or people like World Series, Super Bowl,
Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, and farm leagues. Sports fans would automatically
know what these things and who Peyton Manning and Tom Brady are. My word choice
and assumption that the audience knows certain terms and people clearly shows
that the audience
There
were two different kinds of research methods that I used for this project. The
first one I used was textual analysis. I researched many different articles and
data online to try to understand what had been said about this conversation
already and what information was out there. From this process, I was able to
find four different factors that may have contributed to the rise of football.
This is outlined in my literature review. The second method I used was focus
groups. I conducted two focus groups for my own research in order to find out
what sports fans had to say about this whole subject and see what answers they
could give me for what the main reason really is for why football has gotten so
popular. The first focus group was composed of four college aged guys and the
second was one fifty year old man and a thirteen year old boy. This allowed me
to gather information from all three different generations. This process
provided me with substantial evidence, quality answers, and interesting facts.
This can be found in the “Results” and “Discussion” sections.
My
paper also demonstrates proper MLA formatting. Every time I quoted,
paraphrased, or used information from a source in my literature review, I used
in-text citations to show that I was borrowing from another source. I have the
proper heading and page number on the top left of every page, and the text is
twelve point Times New Roman, double-spaced. Another example of proper
formatting is the paraphrase of Brosefus’ talk on page thirteen, in the section
“The Age of Instant Gratification.” The paraphrase has its own paragraph, or
section, and is tabbed in further than the page text.
Finally, I drafted, proofread, and
edited my paper several times so that it would be a quality paper. For example,
there are two drafts of my Literature Review (a first draft and the final
draft) on the right side of this blog page, under the title “Literature
Review.” My methods section also went through an editing and revising process.
I spent a good amount of time composing and revising my results section, because
I wanted to include all the important information that I found and present it
in a way that made sense. I also had several other people read through my paper
so that they could find things that I missed and tell me if my paper made sense
and was easy to understand. My word choice, different research methods, proper
formatting, and editing process all worked together to produce a quality paper.
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