Online Source #5

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	“Competitive Cheer and Dance as Sports”
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	1 May 2009
Date You Read It	15 February 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)	http://terry-zeigler.suite101.com/competitive-cheer-and-dance-teams-a114155

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):

Not only do dancer practice constantly, when they are not they are “taking additional technical and/or tumbling courses outside of their team practices.” (Zeigler).

Dancers go through “hours of practice, competing through pain and injuries, and a high level of training” (Zeigler).

In dance there is no down time, they “practice year round and are required to participate in summer camps and multiple competitions throughout the year.” (Zeigler).

The author feels as though “dance teams need to be recognized and treated as sports at both the high school and college levels.” (Zeigler).

Being unregulated because of the lack of recognition, athletic directors still do not consider dance “as part of their sports programs” (Zeigler).

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

The author tries to explain that by definition, dance and cheer are sports.  She states that dancers and cheerleaders are active and competitive while practicing year round.  The author believes that high school as well as college should recognize dance and cheer as sports because of the relation they share to other so called “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 anything to gain from this article it is more informational.

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

The author does have a somewhat biased opinion toward the side of dance being a sport but does not have much to gain from the article or any sign of personal experience.

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

The author makes references but not many, one to the Dictionary and another to the University of Maryland.  In a way the references help but also detract because it begins to get very confusing as to what she is trying to say.

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

I can use this article in my project because it will provide me with more quotes to back up my argument.