Instructions/evaluation for sports equipment paper

Instructions/evaluation for sports equipment paper (worth up to 50 points or 5% of total course grade)

Guideline length: no more than 2 pages plus a reference page. Ideas: swimwear, ice skates, sails, rackets, oars….do
NOT choose surfboards, which we have covered in class! Try to choose something unusual and do some real
research. For example, football helmets are so much written about, if you chose that I will expect the paper to be
truly excellent! Something a little less written about, which requires more work, is likely to gain a better grade.

Choose a sport you are familiar with; select one piece of equipment that shows change over time, then
describe and account for that change. You should use references, preferably primary or scholarly, to help you earn
a better grade. Think on the macro level:
What changes in law, technology, rules, society etc. have caused the
change over time in the piece of equipment chosen?
Who made it happen, if known?
What exactly was the change?
When and where did the change(s) happen?
Why has it changed? How has it changed?
Important – Please follow the Criteria in the Rubric that I attached to the file
Criteria include:
At least 3
references
Evaluation of
each source
used in the reference list (Uses P-CACAO) – Explained below
Logical
presentation
Grammar,
spelling,
punctuation
Technological
change*
Societal
change*
Legal change*
Rule change*
Descriptive
Interpretive
As with historical sources, the same is true of how you view the news or anything online today: Who wrote it?
What was their purpose? What depth is there? What is their particular bias? How does this source compare with
other sources?
(P-CACAO) stand for
PURPOSE
COVERAGE
AUTHORITY
CURRENCY (less important for historical sources, obviously)
ACCURACY
OBJECTIVITY

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