Group Project
GENERAL GUIDELINES
Project Components
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Paper (10 points max)
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Presentation (10 points max)
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Minimum of 10 pages (APA format)
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No slide limit
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Grading evaluation of paper will
consider:
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However, there exists time limits:
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Content: must address all required
elements listed in “General Guidelines”
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Writing should be/should possess:
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grammatically sound
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effectively ordered/implement transitions
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persuasive
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absent hyperbole and cliche
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Minimum of 10 minutes
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Maximum of 20 minutes
All required project elements need to
be addressed within presentation and
captured on slides
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Should reflect group project paper
Event/Topic Selection
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Event must be:
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A current sports event
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“current” means occurring as recently as the past month prior to presentation date
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Related to a chapter topic within our Sports in Society textbook
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Approved by the course instructor
Project Elements
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Must examine event through the concepts
of:
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Culture
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Social interaction
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Social structure
Must provide all relevant background
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Present the general story
Must present various ways that media
positions event; utilizing information/research
the textbook provides
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Must provide specific practitioner examples,
media sources, and positions
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Encouraged to pull from additional academic
resources to supplement justifications for
interpretations/positions
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Must identify various social world impacted
by event
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Must provide differing perspectives of event
with equal support
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Must provide perceived implications
associated with event depending on social
worlds and perspectives held
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Develop conclusion by considering any
management/sport world (social world)
implications last, with group
recommendation(s) on strategies taken to
encourage or discourage effect(s) of particular
event within your operational social world(s)
Group Selection / Scheduling
Group Parameters/Selection
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Groups can have no more than five
members, and no less than four
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Group members must secure
approval for a sport event no earlier
than a month (four weeks), and no
later than three weeks before its
presentation date
Scheduling to Present
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Once groups are established,
date selection order will be
drawn at random
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Groups can select one of
three dates to present
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9/9, 10/14, 11/11
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No more than three groups
per presentation date