Martial Arts in China Outline
Writing
1400 words APA style with references. please see attached instructions
Students will explore a cultural sport production (sport/game/human movement) of a nation linked to the students’ personal ethnicities and histories. Students will develop: 1) overview of national history, 2) overview the rules of the sport/game and its historical importance, 3) overview of the cultural importance of the sport, 4) overview expressions of cultural values in sport/game/human movement, 5) explore how this cultural product has influenced their personal/familial sport experiences and sport identities, and 6) its relation to and impact on US sport/games/human movement
the time period of your sport life your narrative will cover: 19th century (OR WHATEVER CENTURY)
the sports you will discuss: martial arts
the theories you will use: Interactionist theory, critical theory
the country where this sport was developed: China
why you chose it: China is my hometown and Wu-Shu was one of the well-known sports in China.
1 academic ref you will Use: https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/kungfu/history.htm (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
PAPER STRUCTURE
- Introduction (1/2-1 pg)
- Optional – cite an interesting quote
- Intro sentences to topic and paper
- Statement of purpose (what you will write about and discuss do in the paper)
- Goals of paper
- Definition of terms if applicable (Stress, racism, sexism, ageism, etc…whichever terms you will be using in your paper and fit into the experiences you are discussing in the paper
- Layout structure and organization of paper information
2. Overview the Nation (1/2 – 1 pg)
- Brief history, overview of larger cultural values and sport history
3. Overview the Sport (1/2 – 1 pg)
- Rules, history, organizations
4. Expressions of Cultural Values (1 page)
- Describe and analyze the sport (this could be a specific situation, or many situations related to identities: race, sexual orientation, ageism, disability, ethnicity, occupational, religion, and/or class)
- Sociocultural influences
- Relate to journal articles, which discuss/relate/contradict in some fashion, the general nature the sport experience(s)
5. Relationship to Personal Cultural Background (1 pg)
- Describe the situation(s) or experience(s) – yet focus on larger issues and context – less play-by-play
- Explore values expressed in that sport and your family, person, and sporting choices
- How the values of that sport have affected you
- Compare and contrast your experiences and understandings of sport with research, class text, larger popular cultural occurrences
6. Summary/Conclusion (1 pg)
- Summarize the main content of paper
- Wrap up main themes of paper
- Suggest possible intervention(s) and/or social actions
- re-Reference any journal materials
- Final thoughts and looking forward
Critical Sport Autobiography Cultural Sport Narrative Paper Outline
- 4 – 6 pages of text (around 1400 words), NOT including title and reference pages
- Reference min. of 5 journal, peer-reviewed articles – the more the better (max of 1 can be used from class reader)
- See webct and class reader for examples of peer review journal articles and how to cite
- 10 or 12 pt. font, APA style, black ink, times new roman font style, white paper, indent new paragraphs, use paragraph breaks
- APA is written in past tense whenever possible (e.g. The purpose of this paper was ….The goal of this paper was…)
- Need to have in-text citations for any material noted on the reference page
- Double space lines of text
- Inside the paper – main section titles are good for organization (e.g. section title…Personal Sport Journey: Navigating Bi-culturalism in Youth Sport)
- Brief, clear, and concise writing; write with academic, formal voice
- No more than 3 direct referenced quotes in paper if possible
- Read and follow in detail the paper guidelines; see grading rubric for specifics; see webct handout on personal sport autobiography paper details
- Try to avoid overuse of personal and object pronouns (it, they); make sure tenses agree; use of I in this paper is OK, but be sparing
- Do us both a favor, use spell check and grammar check!
