Online Source #3

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	“Competitive Cheer and Dance Gaining Ground”
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)	Terry Zeigler
Title of the Entire Website (not www.)	Suite101
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given)	None given
Date Page was Last Revised	10 May 2009
Date You Read It	14 February 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)	http://terry-zeigler.suite101.com/competitive-cheer-and-dance-gaining-ground-a116471

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):

Colleges sponsor and designate their teams even though “the NCAA does not recognize cheer and dance as “sports”’ (Zeigler).

Although some schools do not consider dance to be a sport, “192 universities sponsored competitive dance teams” (Zeigler).

Although Scholarships are offered for many different sports, “there were no full scholarships provided for dance” (Zeigler).

Zeigler states that “the top sources of funding for dance and cheer were split between athletics, institutional funds, and fundraising” (Zeigler).

One thing will lead to another in dance being recognized as a sport as long “as more universities adopt these programs as varsity sports” (Zeigler).

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):

The author discusses whether or not dance and cheer should be considered sports.  She is in favor of them being sports but does not have to personal connection to the topic. She shows the reader a percentage of scholarships offered for dance and cheer to show how colleges do not think of them as “sports”.


Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?

The author of this article is Terry Zeigler.  She is a certified athletic trainer as well as a professor in Kinesiology.  She specializes in prevention, recognition, as well as treatment and rehabilitation of athletic injuries.

Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?

The author does not seem to have any gain from the article it is more information on the fact.

Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?

The author is not completely biased toward one way or the other.  The article is more informational than biased.

References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility?

The author makes some references in the article to help prove her point such as statistics and percentages.  These references add to the author’s purpose of writing the article by showing more detail as well as a visual number for the reader.

Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?

 This source can be used in my project because of the statistics/percentages provided in the article.