Canadian Sport History

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Canadian Sport History
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Research Paper

• Due On or Before
• Thursday November 14, 2002

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TOPICS

• Personal
• 1. Family Relative Friend
• 2. Hometown sport or leisure
• facility issue team event

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Details

• 8-10 double-spaced pages (7.5 to 10.5 no more,
  no less)
• 2 copies you keep one
• Late penalty 7 per day

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What to Do

• Pick a general topic (clear it with us)
• Do a full search at the library use the library
  search and Sport Discus
• Find both primary sources and secondary sources
• Read
• Find a research question or an issue in the
  material

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Structure of the Paper

• Introduction thesis statement cognitive map of
  the paper
• Body arguments embedded in a story
• Conclusion

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Citations . . . Endnotes

• Acknowledge the work of others
• establish historical validity
• embellish or expand upon points that are relevant
  but not appropriate for the text

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Endnotes

• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• 4.
• 5.

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• 6. J. Coakley, Sport in Society Issues and
  Controversies, (St. Louis
  Mosby,1994), p. 22.

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• 6. J. Coakley, Sport in Society Issues
  and Controversies, (St. Louis
  Mosby,1994), p. 22.
• 7. Ibid. ( this means that you are citing the
  same edition of Coakley and the same page)

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• 6. J. Coakley, Sport in Society Issues
  and Controversies, (St. Louis
  Mosby,1994), p. 22.
• 7. Ibid. ( this means that you are citing the
  same edition of Coakley and the same page)
• 8. Ibid., pp. 34-46. (this means the same
  edition but different page(s))

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• 9. M. Mott, Sports in Canada, (Toronto
  Copp Clark Pitman, 1987), p. 35.

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• 9. M. Mott, Sports in Canada, (Toronto
  Copp Clark Pitman, 1987), p. 35.
• 10. Coakley, p. 133. (this means that you are
  citing the same edition as it has been
  referenced in endnotes 6, 7 and 8 above
  )

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PLAGIARISM
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Web site

• Check carefully for full description and
  examples, hints etc
• Newspaper ref ? Montreal Daily Star, 28 January
  1887, p. 11
• Tough part getting to res Question or statement
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