Book Source #2

Title of the Book (in italics when typed, underlined when written)	Dance: the study of dance and the place of dance in society
Author(s) or Editor	Many authors to different sections of book
Publisher	Spon
Year of Publication	1986
City of Publication	New York and London
Mode of Access (Print if you read the actual book, Electronic if you found it online, or through your kindle/nook/ereader):	Print
Edition if indicated:	None

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):

The book state that people “think ballet and ballet music is boring and the majority are prejudiced against male ballet dancers” (Sanderson 141).

People are drawn to dances with “strange music” or “beautiful costumes and props” (Sanderson 142).

Ingram stated that “dance was regarded mainly as a physical fitness, self-development, and social activity” due to a misunderstanding on the side of physical education (Ingram 195).

Leading to the belief that anyone can dance, there are many “classes of aerobics taught by physical education people in which the worst of alignment and movement habits are practiced” (Ingram 200).

Ingram makes a good point in saying that dancers “teach for the quality of movement and the authenticity of the movement rather than for height, speed, and skillful execution” (Ingram 200).

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

Dance is an expressive, physical form of movement.  People have their misconceptions of dance but dancers do things their way if no one else accepts them.  Dance is for everyone, it does not matter if you are female or male.  The physical education department has a narrow view on what dance is.  It used to be more generous about including dance.

Credibility of Source:
Author or Editor: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the editor.

Although there are many authors in this book the two I took quotes from were Patricia Sanderson and Ingram.  Patricia Sanderson is from the Department of Education from the University of Manchester.  Ingram is from the Department of Physical Education from the University of Maryland.

Attachment: Does the author or editor have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative?

The author does not seem to have much to gain from the writings in this book but to inform others about the topic as well as getting a point across to the readers.


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

I do suspect bias in this book as to favoring the side dance recognition due to personal expierence.

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

The author did cite other sources in the book.  They add to the credibility and ideas the author is trying to get across.

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

This source can be used in my project to provide me with more ideas as well as evidence to prove my point.

Book Source #1

Title of the Book (in italics when typed, underlined when written)	Sport, Dance, and Embodied Identities
Author(s) or Editor	Edited by: Noel Dyck and Eduardo P. Archetti
Publisher	Berg
Year of Publication	2003
City of Publication	New York and the UK
Mode of Access (Print if you read the actual book, Electronic if you found it online, or through your kindle/nook/ereader):	Print
Edition if indicated:	None

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):

Sports and dance “share not only a common status as techniques of the body (Mauss 1973), but also a vital capacity to express and reformulate identities and meanings through their practiced movements and scripted forms”(Dyck/Archetti, 1).

Dance and sports are compared and classified “as objects for contemplation, recognition, and discourse that give rise to a variety of reworked national, ethnic, class, gender, and personal identities” (Dyck/Archetti, 2).

Both sports and dance can be known “as forms of embodied practice and aesthetic pleasure that serve both as public mirrors and as models of identity” (Dyck/Archetti, 5).

Sports and dance are said to be used “as vehicles for expressing and reformulating national identities” (Dyck/Archetti, 4).

Mauss had a different way of thinking about “running, swimming, games, and dancing” in which they are known “as appropriate and significant matters for social analysis” (Dyck/Archetti, 8).

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

Dance is compared to sports in many different ways and taken into consideration to have many possibilities.  Mauss, a French sociologist, was quoted a few times and said that dance was an “appropriate and significant matter for social analysis” (Dyck/Archetti, 8).  Sports and dance are very similar and have many of the same qualities.  They help people form an identity and express who they really are.

Credibility of Source:
Author or Editor: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the editor.

Noel Dyck is a professor of social anthropology at SFU.  Eduardo Archetti was an Argentine anthropologist, sociologists, essayists, and educator.

Attachment: Does the author or editor have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative?

The author does not seem to have anything to gain from writing this book but to inform others about the topics.


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

I do not suspect much bias in this book but there could be an underlying feeling of bias.

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

The author does cite other sources in the book.  They add to the credibility and ideas of the author.

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

This source can be used in my project to give me different views on the topic in a variety of ways.