SLR in Athletic Training

Tags: SLR

The field athletic training falls under will be the Kinesiology major field. Kinesiology is a great path to go down if you want to be an athletic trainer or a PT/OPT because you can learn about the movement of the body and helping people with injury’s when they are injured.

The athletic training field uses the IMRAD Structure because you have to talk about yourself and why you might want to be that, and you will be able to talk about what this field is and what it does. At the end there is results and you can have discussion at the end maybe have them with the athlete you are treating for that injury, and you can tell them about their results in a discussion.

The type of language that is expected in the athletic training field is maybe impersonal depending on how you view the field in the viewer eyes that are trying to be and athletic trainer. It is impersonal because you can say “this report can show you” instead of writing “I will show” for a more professional saying.

I would use references like using a journal from a resent professional athletic trainer explaining their story of becoming an athletic trainer through their own eyes. I could find books based off of this field or related to this field that I want to be in.

All of this is important for me to learn so I know what I am walking into going into this direction. Using SLR should be important no matter what your field is that you’re going into. My field could go into any Structure I think depending how you look at it, the language should be professional because of the type of job you get. My references should always be resent date or close to it so it can me more accurate when they look at it.

Kaden February 26, 2022 1 Comment

structure language and reference blog- blair

Engl 165-04 Fall '22

This weeks blog post is a bit different. Today I will be going over Structure, Language, and Reference in academic writing. When thinking about structure language and reference in academic writing what comes to mind is a set of rules or foundations used to help make your work readable and enjoyable and professional. Structure in academic writing is the format in which you write. It is also the guidelines, the rubric, the small details in a writing that keep it organized and readable. For example when you make you Introduction, Body Paragraphs, and your Conclusion, you are practicing structure in academic writing. Academic writing is usually objective and technical. Language in academic writing is basically the level of formality, tone, emotions, and the message in a writing. The four types of language are academic writing is descriptive, analytical, persuasive, and critical. Each type has specific rules and purposes. Reference in academic writing is acknowledging the contribution of other writers or researchers in your work. Referencing gives that person credit for the work they did. Referencing can even make the difference in a plagiarized paper. Referencing also helps validate your argument by introduces credible sources of information and not just from your own research. As an Art major focusing on graphic animation and design we use formal language, when presenting our work we wear business casual clothing to compliment the professionalism of our work. We use APA style citations for referencing. The structure of GAND can vary depending on the class or assignment but it usually revolves around a set rubric you must follow. Similar to an English 165 rubric. It is important for me to learn all of this information because I need it to get through college, it can help me become better educated, and it will become second nature.

Blair February 26, 2022

SLR in Recreational Therapy

Engl 165-04 Fall '22

Tags: language, Rec Therapy, reference, SLR, structure

Structure, language, and reference are three key factors when it comes to academic writing. This is especially true when you are writing within your desired major or career field. Personally, I am an aspiring Recreational Therapist, which falls under applied sciences. For this field, I must keep in mind the structure, language, and references for any writing I do because it will be key in providing information for me, other professionals, and any of my patients.

For this career, I might be writing reports or evaluations, so the structure of how I write these reports or documents is crucial. I must be neat and professional, while also following the guidelines of healthcare’s writing standards. Most documents I will write will be looked at by other healthcare professionals, so I will more than likely use professional terms and language. However, if I am writing up a report that will be shared with a patient, I might use more practical words and will keep things simple. I also must follow the APA style if I am writing a paper or research report. This is what all applied science disciplines follow, so it is important that I use the correct references when completing the paper along with my citations.

These are all extremely important to me because being a Recreational Therapists comes with lots of record keeping, repots, and overall professional writing. I must know how to structure my papers, the appropriate language to use, and the correct references to use. These three things will ensure that I am efficiently writing in the workplace and keeping up good standards of writing.

Using language, structure, and references is important for students to learn now so that they will be on the right track once they enter the work force. Writing is critical to all aspects of life and work, so being able to write professionally and correctly now will be beneficial through all walks of life. Learning about SLR now also gives you the room to grow and improve on those skills so once you are ready to venture into the work force you will be prepared and have experience with good academic writing designed for you.

Emma February 26, 2022 1 Comment

SLR

Engl 165-04 Fall '22

Tags: SLR

SLR is very important in many different ways: finding/ talking about a career or field, reflecting on writing or just working on a paper/ project in general. When using SLR in my career path it helps me with a sort of organization method. When working in the Health and Physical Education field we will most likely use APA formatting. I feel that being in a health and physical education field, our language is mostly likely up to date information and also very eye opening. When teaching kids in a health and physical education class, teachers want to help reach out to students in the most respectful way possible.

When teaching it’s best to be able to have a bond with the students so that they can understand the importance of their health and physical education. Speaking to the kids we have to make sure our language is understood so students can understand what’s going on in the classroom. When talking about different references in the health and physical education field it’s best to pay attention to the social, cultural, and emotional effects on children.

Working on these methods with students can help them a lot with being encouraged to do something in their life. I feel that it’s best to get the understanding of SLR now because you will get a better understanding of what you’re supposed to talk about in future classrooms. Another reason I feel that it’s important is because organization is the biggest key success when it comes to academic writing. Making sure you’re organized will help you present much better to your audience to where they can get a better understanding on what you look forward to doing in and out of the classroom. Therefore, practicing now with providing a great amount of information will help you in the future and probably encourage others with starting SLR now until later.

Makenzie February 26, 2022 1 Comment

SLR in Criminal Justice

Engl 165-04 Fall '22

Tags: SLR, structure language and reference

I would like to pursue a career in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Working for the FBI and other government security agengies falls into the Criminal Justice field. The criminal justice field uses the ALA format and this is because ALA is most commonly used in social science fields. ALA is used as a research structure when citing sources for their documents, articles, and reports. When writing these things it is important for them to be precise, punctual, and directed to the correct professional audience. Punctuality is important do to the fast pace, ever-changing nature in this field. While preciseness and audience is important because precise accurate information when proceeding court cases and criminal involvement is highly important. Missed judgments and false imprisonment are all products of miss interpretation of evidence and supports. Lastly, audience is important because dealing with co-workers, judges, families of a criminal, and others in the criminal justice field are all vastly different audiences. Hints the importance of addressing the correct audience not only in the beginning of your writing but throughout the entirety of the writing piece.

Learning these things before entering this field is highly important. You should be educated in what is expected of you when you enter your career path. Things like structure, organization, format, and tone and voice are all equally important when writing in your career. Managers, bosses, and all higher-ups are looking for the best in the position to perform and exceed their expectations. Having a strong knowledge in typical formatting and structure needed to know in your field is something all professionals will be looking for to differentiate between candidates for promotions and other jobs.

To find this information out about your career path In specific. You can research these things through scholarly articles, .gov sources, and other reliable sources. You can also ask other individuals in your specific field. These things will help to better inform you on what is important for you to know about SLR regarding what your specific career or field that you are interesting in pursuing.

Marley February 26, 2022

SLR in Communication Studies and Public Relations

Engl 165-04 Fall '22

To start off, I recently declared my major to Communication Studies with a concentration in Public Relations. The purpose of Public Relations is to communicate with different organizations in addition to the public. So far, I have not taken any classes required for this major so I am not entirely sure about all of the structure, language, and reference involved with this major. In my opinion, I would think that structure, language, and reference are all involved in Communication Studies. I believe this because with the job I want in the NFL, I think that I will have to have all of my press releases, for example, structured and organized neatly, have appropriate language to be heard during conferences, and have credible references to find all of the information needed for me to talk about. The structure for Communication Studies and Public Relations would consist of me writing a story that draws the target audience in so they would be engaged during press releases. Also, the language used in Communication Studies and Public Relations would be the same where I can target my intended audience to experience what I want them to experience whether this is in press releases, social media, blog posts, and business events. For references, I can see myself either using MLA or APA citations for the sources that I find and use. All of this information will most definitely help me succeed in this career path because I will have to be able to use the correct structure, language, and reference in order to write and present specific press releases, social media posts, and business organization meetings which will change depending on who my audience is. More specifically, I will have to learn the APA style of formatting and citing my credible sources because I have never had to use APA style and MLA 8 style is the only style I am familiar with.

Ryan B February 26, 2022 4 Comments

SLR and Education in the Social Science Field

Engl 165-04 Fall '22

Tags: language, SLR, structure, style, writing in the disciplines

See the source image

Education majors fall under the social science umbrella. This is also true of majors like psychology, communication, social work, and museology. Thus, I’d need to use the IMRaD format when writing papers, especially research papers. In fact, I’ve already written a research paper using IMRaD format for my EDUC 245 class; my researched question involved ADHD. As someone with ADHD siblings, it was the most natural topic for me.

IMRaD papers, in case you’ve forgotten from the readings, has different sections for the introduction (or abstract), methods, results, and discussion. So, the ‘a’ in IMRaD comes from ‘and.’ While writing my paper, I found that the style of IMRaD papers flows well and divvies up the information into digestible quantities.

As far as language goes, I have found it’s a good idea to use qualifiers, like the book mentions. Words like ‘might,’ ‘could,’ and ‘likely’ fit into this. In general, social science papers should be concise and formal. This means broad adjectives, like ‘super’ and ‘very,’ should be avoided since they are not specific or precise enough to be presented as factual. It’s easy for the mind to drift away from precision; I often find that the longer I try to focus, the more my paragraphs look like my unfiltered train of thought threw up on the Google Doc. So, I know it’s important to know what words to avoid, so when I edit my papers, I know what words to swap out, or trash altogether.

Regarding types of reference, education majors should end up using APA in the classes for their specific majors. APA applies to many of the social sciences.

It’s very important for college students to understand how the different parts of SLR applies to them personally. We’ll all be taking more and more classes for our specific majors as time goes on and will need to know how to write appropriate papers for our fields of study. Researching that information now is best because by the time we’re consistently writing papers of our field’s style, we should already be familiar with the structure, language, and reference will need to use.

These are the websites I looked at to figure out what field education falls under and more about writing under the social science umbrella: https://guides.lib.uw.edu/research/citations/citationwhich. https://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/academicwriting#:~:text=IV.%20Language%20The%20investigation%20of%20research%20problems%20in,to%20follow%20your%20line%20of%20thinking%20without%20difficulty.

The images are from educationcareerarticles.com/education-articles/majors-overview/information-on-masters-degree-programs-in-social-science/ and https://trends-worldwide16.blogspot.com/2021/04/format-of-imrad-thesis-example-of.html.

Nita February 26, 2022 1 Comment

March book two: freedom riders

March Blog Prompt

Tags: dr martin luther king jr, John Lewis

As I started reading the second part of March, Book Two, I realized how much hatred was still being spread despite everything people of color have already been through. The freedom riders relied on someone to drive them in the middle of the night when it was dark. They were dropped off right at the Tennessee state line by the driver. Which was designated “Klan country.” All of the freedom riders began walking and came across a house. They knocked on the door, hoping that someone would assist them and let them in. The kind people let them in and allowed them to call Dianne. The freedom riders, in my opinion, are extremely heroic. They fought valiantly and never surrendered, no matter what. The freedom riders were subjected to verbal and physical abuse, as well as jail time. Because word had gotten out that the freedom riders were returning, they had to take a detour in order to return safely. They had returned safely.

During the reading, the police officers took away the mattress simply because the freedom riders were singing. Even while imprisoned, the freedom riders continued to advocate for themselves. They kept singing while their mattresses were being taken away.

This, I believe, can be applied to today because people of color face racism on a daily basis, just as they did back then. The goal of the freedom riders was to put an end to segregation. Just recently, the Black Lives Matter protest was launched in order to fight for equal treatment. It’s truly tragic that our society is still like this. Segregation began around 1865. I’m just baffled as to why people still act the same way they did back then. A skin color is a skin color to me. I’m embarrassed that others behave in this manner because of their skin color. It is literally the year 2022, and people have yet to change. I support black lives matter protests, but I despise the fact that people of color have to resort to such tactics in order to be treated fairly.

Kaylee February 19, 2022

Let Freedom Ring For All

March Blog Prompt

Tags: Civil Rights Movement, dr martin luther king jr, equality, Freedom, freedom riders

The saying “Let Freedom Ring” is a metaphor that symbolizes the sound of a bell representing hope and equality. Martin Luther King Jr. used this metaphor in his famous “I have a dream” speech. This quote has been used to symbolize freedom for all Americans. At the time of his speech, freedom was not accessible to all citizens of the United States. It had to be fought hard for. Lives had to be sacrificed to achieve it and make a difference in this world. By Martin Luther King Jr. saying, “let freedom ring,” he meant it for every person in the world, regardless of race or gender.

Honestly, I do not know if I would be capable of doing what generations before us had to do to fight for equality and freedom. Many people had to risk their lives and were beaten senselessly for trying to go against the forces who disagreed at that time. I would like to believe I would have the courage to make a difference and fight for our rights, but it is hard to know for sure without being put in that position. If I was, I could only hope that I would be brave enough to take a stand and do what was needed to conquer freedom for myself and my people.

I am not sure that today’s generation would have the backbone and be able to commit to such a hard and life-threatening challenge. Our generation can only imagine what previous generations endured through textbooks and what school teaches us. I think it is hard for any of us to understand what these struggles were because we have not had to see them, or at least not as intensely as our ancestors did. If the world was how it used to be and we saw how important making a difference was, then we could find the grit to fight; however, our lives do not compare to those of the past.

Events like these are still important to be taught today because we need to see what occurred in history to make sure that history doesn’t repeat itself. Equality is still not achievable for everyone, and it will be many more years before our world does see humankind as a whole. These issues still need to be taught and fought for until equality is achievable for all.

Halee February 19, 2022 5 Comments

“Let Freedom Ring”

Engl 165-04 Fall '22

Tags: Freedom, March Book 2

“March: Book 2” had some unsettling images, to say the least. The horrific events escalated to become even more disgusting and heinous as the time went on. The actions and lengths taken to ensure the African American minority did not have access to equal public transportation were completely unnecessary and, a smack in the face to the religion, most of the attackers claimed to worship.

The phrase “Let Freedom Ring” means to be released from the shackles that have held a person for so long. These shackles can be literal, like prison, or metaphorical like, oppression, an abusive relationship, depression, or the anxiety eating away at a person’s mental state. This can take form in many ways in anybody’s life. This not only applies to minorities, but every single person has something holding them back from being taken as an equal amongst society. Every person yearns to break free from the barriers that make them feel “less” than the other members, at school, at work, or even in the world.

I see myself in the text, when I think back to when I wanted something for myself, but every time I was close to the goal, some barrier made that goal feel so far out of reach. Many of us take for granted the access to the things that others wish they had the opportunity to obtain. When I was in my freshman year of college, I wanted to be student body president. When Election Day came, I had more than 60% of the votes. I was denied the position, because the area where I was from lacked urbanization. They said I would not be able to connect with the students from urban areas, up north. This was not so, I was denied because of the color of my skin. This was a barrier set in place to defer me from the position. I understand what it means to not be given the same opportunities a white man would receive.

I would take lengths to make sure I am seen as an equal today. My lengths would be non-violent and perfectly legal. I would protest and make sure every person heard my voice , through social media. Every public event where I could have my voice heard , I will be in attendance loud and proud. Most importantly, I will not stop until my voice is heard.

Tylik February 19, 2022