KINE 482 General Writing Issues in Exercise Physiology

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KINE 482 General Writing Issues in Exercise
Physiology Motor Behavior

• David L. Wright

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Today we will..

• Consider Manageable Questions
• Describe the Process of Writing
• Describe a common Product of Writing in Exercise
  Physiology or Motor Behavior Journal Article
• Review which Journals Count?

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Manageable Questions

• Lay article from magazine, newspaper, etc.
• What is the big question of this magazine
  article?
• What are the smaller more manageable questions
  that are contained in this magazine article?
• Can we phrase the manageable question in the form
  of a testable hypothesis?

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Process of Writing

• Prewriting or Invention
• Researches literature to generate argument
• Consider audience, genre, and rhetorical purpose
• Drafting
• Organizes the content to convey dominant theme(s)
• Re-writing, Editing, and/or Revision
• Global changes by re-arranging, adding, deleting,
  while also adapting tone, style, and content for
  a particular audience
• Proofreading
• Typically used for local changes especially for
  correcting errors in grammer, mechanics, usage,
  etc

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Activities That Can Be used To Target The
Processes of Writing

• Prewriting
• Journals, conversations, freewriting,
  brainstorming
• Drafting
• Outlining, modeling, categorizing
• Re-writing
• In-class draft reading, one-to-one peer
  evaluations, verbal presentations
• Proofreading
• Peer-editing, last minute reads,
  spell-checks/thesaurus

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The Product Journal Article

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Identify lay issue, synopsis of relevant
  scientific literature, stating of
  questions/predictions
• Methods
• Participants, task, procedures, statistical
  analyses
• Results
• Statistical analyses
• Discussion
• Return to questions/predictions, what does this
  mean for future

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Getting Started Your Citations

• www.pubmed.com
• Google scholar
• TAMU Library
• ISIKNOWLEDGE

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What You Should Have Completed For Our Next Class

• Identify your manageable question
• Identify three citations and write in APA form