121 overall taught me what?

Academic Text, Professional Text and Public Text are three forms of text I was taught how to properly identify and analyze after taking this course. Usually reading text assigned by an instructor reading it is basically the most you do if that. However I can say that in this course not only did I read the text but I can identify the genre of the text and analyze it.

Through this course, there were a wide range of opportunity experienced. I say this because we are able to write our own academic text, to composing blog post to utilizing twitter post for bettering our education. I will not lie, starting this course I wondered how so many elements would be connected to a course I thought was all about writing papers and creating an understanding of how to use rhetoric. But the tweeting, blogging and CSW are wonderful contributions to the course.

This is also important because if we are able to utilize these elements in the academic process, education possibilities will only grow significantly.

CSW

At Eastern Michigan University there is a experience called the Celebration of Student Writing. Here we have students in a higher freshman level English students (English 121 ) the opportunity to present there work for the semester to students in English 120. Going to CSW was extremely scary to me seriously.







My project being about a unfamiliar topic like Traumatic Brain Injury with football player, I believed that it would be hard to get a crowd or even anyone to listen to me. However my presentation was successful in my opinion, even though all of my audience was male I was extremely happy that people asked questions and enjoyed my Prezi. I observed the project that had larger visual aid's and I was happy to see that they were used effectively.


Hearing about the CSW I admit I didn't take it particularly serious, I understood and only cared about my own project. However seeing everyone else's I was able to understand the true goal of the CSW. And I feel that this should be done by other universities simply because it allows you to see the hard work that peers in other classes went through this semester.

One Goal, Multiple Methods.

In class we were responsible for reading a novel that decided to try to pass it's self as article. Although the article was long it made some important points. It touched subject on the fact that we have professors with masters and doctoral degrees that expect collegiate level writing responses from people fresh out of high school. The author also addresses the fact that we have all the styles and rules expected for particular courses. And these rules and styles have created "rubric" type responses, which to me takes away from creativity. 

Another issue with this, is it insinuates that all students learn the way teachers like to make it seem we learn. So our author conducted a study, asking participants to draw two pictures. One of the spaces in which they write and the second one showing the process of there writing.

Getting many different examples but they all showed that nobody uses the old form of writing. No one truly; gets an idea, write a paper, does a rough draft, get it proof-read and then does a final draft. Most people participate in multiple activities which help to develop their idea. I myself am one of those people.

First there is my space(s).

These are the spaces in which I write. There are multiple places because I'm a little bit of a busy body, and I hate being in one space.

Then there is my process.

This process looks chaotic, but I go through this multiple times depending on the amount of creativity the paper requires. I go from place to place, and sometimes my ideas come up and when they do I use my responses to adapt. Most subjects I choose to speak on are provocative, "so my first question is do you think this will offend my professor?" But my process is like a scavenger hunt but it works perfectly for me. Except for the times I procrastinate, then I get a little overwhelmed.

Problems. Problems. Problems

So when looking into my annotated bibliography, and determining what I know and what I don't know. My ENGL 121 Professor Brett challenged me, instead of thinking of my paper as a regular paper I should think about how to solve a problem. This caused me to think hard on what is my problem. And I came to the conclusion there are a lot of problems for me to pick from.

First it was, if the NFL and other organizations are being sued because Athlete's are experiencing long term life paralyzing injuries why does this country still support football being played.

According to Forbes Magazine (http://www.forbes.com/sites/monteburke/2013/08/17/how-the-national-football-league-can-reach-25-billion-in-annual-revenues/) The NFL can revenue 25 billion dollars annually.



You must keep in mind, the sport of football goes beyond the field. Its deeper than the contracts that are signed, you must also keep in mind the money made off merchandise, ticket sales, advertisements,  endorsement deals, meet in greets, and etc.

Back in 2005, the NFL had a revenue of  6.16 Billion dollars.
http://www.statista.com/statistics/193457/total-league-revenue-of-the-nfl-since-2005/

The following URL gives you the top five sources of the NFL's Revenue.
http://www.pellegrinoandassociates.com/top-five-revenue-sources-that-drive-value-for-the-nfl/

Another problem that I found is, the fact that all the people that speak up about the issues they face because of concussions are recent instances. All of the articles, peer-reviewed and regular are all within the last 3 years. Which is sad, and makes me wonder why we have no statements from 2000 or 1990
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These things matter because this is something way more serious that we give it credit. An issue that has been occurring, but just recently being discussed.

James Sweet

This Blog will be short and Sweet, Get it Sweet!

I will be speaking about my Introduction of Athletic Training Teacher James Sweet.
"James joined the ATEP program in the fall of 2007 as the program's Clinical Coordinator. Academically, Sweet is a graduate from Western Michigan University with a Bachelor degree of Exercise Science and a Master degree of Arts, specializing in Exercise Physiology. Sweet also holds a Graduate Certificate in Orthotics and Prosthetics from Eastern Michigan University."

http://www.emich.edu/chhs/hphp/atr/faculty/sweet.php

According to RateMyProfessor.Com, a website that rates professors from all other on a scale of 5. His overall quality is a 4.7 and he also scores well in the categories of helpfulness, clarity and easiness.

http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1022481

However, out off all the faculty I chose Jim/James Sweet because I am only a freshman and I have limited knowledge and interaction with faculty members connected to my major of Athletic Training.
I can tell you that he is very charismatic, and although the course is designed so that a child could past. The information James provides you with is helpful and something anyone with the major should know to know.



The link between Jim and my research is his interest in collision injuries. These consist of broken bones and my topic of concussions. In are class we watch these videos about how the injuries occur. and read about these organizations behind the research into it.




The little information provided by James Sweet has created a real interest in concussions caused in collision sports.