Entry #2: Questions

A good question for a research paper is attainable, as in it can be answered. I think that a good question also triggers a lot of thought and a good question has many other questions that stem from it. This makes it interesting and it makes it so you can keep learning more and more about your initial question.

The central questions for my paper are "How has Title IX changed college athletics?" and also asking if it's provided enough equality in women's sports, and also how men's sports have been affected by it as well. I may touch on what races benefited the most from Title IX as well. I have played sports my whole life but long after Title IX was enacted and so I don't really know how it improved programs for women and girls. I was already lucky enough to play with more benefits than others before me. 

As far as the other assignments leading up to this point I've found some good questions to answer and I'm excited about my research and what i'll learn. I hope that I can help educate about how there is still some inequality in our word today and even though we've made some big strides from the 1900's that there are still battles worth fighting for, and one of them is the battle that women have when trying to be competitive in athletics.

This Youtube video is centered around the WNBA. Many players wouldn't have had the opportunity to play professionally if Title IX wasn't enacted. I like what Sue Bird had to say, she said that she didn't know what it was like to play without it, and that's kind of the stance I take on it too. I'm grateful I was born into an era where I didn't have to fight as much to compete even though I am a girl. If you notice in the video, a lot of the women are African-American, or not Caucasian, and may be from a foreign country. These women benefit from Title IX also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHcYTg182GU

Entry #1

1) Reflect on your past experiences with writing and research. What were they like? What sorts of methods or types of research did you do? What does good writing, and more specifically "research writing" look like to you?  2) So far, what are some of your early musings/ideas for a potential research topic? Share with me your interest or investment in at least one or two of these topics and why it might be a worthy or interesting quarter-long inquiry? What would you like to know more about or prove? If there are any related videos or articles to your potential topic ideas, feel free to include these.


I've done several different research projects all through-out school, and most but not all have been on topics or people that I have chosen. I remember growing up I did a lot of research projects on my idols, more like biographies almost. I also chose to research animals a lot. Which seems silly but I freaking love animals, and they're pretty fun to learn about too. I've done several other research projects since then on various topics. I got most of my research from online sources like journals or credited websites or from physical books.
I think that good research writing incorporates more than a few sources (so the information is backed up by more than one source and is more credible) and I think that it has a lot of concrete detail, and also some writing analyzing your research and what it means for your research. 
I am thinking of researching LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans) movements, Hip-Hop music, or sports, specifically women's role in sports. LGBT movements would interest me because I identify as part of LGBT, and issues having to do with their rights have recently been a big deal in the nation. I'd like to know how movements started and when they started fighting for rights for LGBT people. Hip-Hop music has a lot of different areas that I could research. I could choose a specific artist or conflict within the genre and research it. The whole story about Tupac and Biggie might be interesting, even though it also might be hard to research because a lot of parts of that story might not be known to be actual facts which would be hard to narrow down. Women in sports would be interesting for me to write about because I've grown up playing three sports every year. I played competitively in soccer, basketball, and baseball/softball and seen how the program options are for girls, as well as just girls/women in sports in general and the role. I remember moments when my team had to fight for a better program and things like that.