Regular
search: The Greatest Game: Why the World Loves Soccer, and America Doesn't
1.
The
John Carlin is a well renowned writer who has traveled the world to
research and write about many different topics such as the genocide in Rwanda, the social revolution in South
Africa, food, wine and soccer. He also
wrote the book Playing the Enemy,
which was the basis for the movie Invictus,
and he writes a weekly column about soccer for Spain’s leading newspaper, El
Pais.
2.
It is an online article that was written for a sports news
website, SB Nation, whose audience is people interested in sports news in
America. The website is not well known and
the article was published November 16th of 2012.
3.
This
article is reliable mainly because of its author. If the site, SB Nation, were to publish an article
by an author without the credentials that John Carlin has then it would not be
a very trustable source. But the fact
that Carlin has traveled so much and knows so much about soccer makes this
article a good source because it is written from a perspective that much more
broad than writers U.S. who have only experienced American soccer. Carlin includes quotes, figures and
statistics but there are no citations to where he obtained these figures, which
is disheartening but understandable due to the audience.
4.
I
believe that this article is appropriate for my topic, but it can only play a
limited role. This article would be a
great source to show how soccer is more than just a sport because of the
passion and culture behind it, which Carlin has experienced firsthand and accounted
for through different interviews. But I
will refrain from using any numbers or statistics that he provides because he
did not cite them therefore I am unsure if the numbers he provided can be trusted.
Scholar
search: We can’t ‘Just do it’ alone! An analysis of Nike’s (potential)
contributions to anti-racism in soccer
1.
The
authors of this journal article, Floris Müller, Liesbet van Zoonen and Laurens
de Roode, are from the Amsterdam School of Communication Research. They are obviously well educated and have put
together a research project that has been approved by people at the institution.
2.
The
Amsterdam School of Communication Research is most likely not well known but the
fact that they are an academic institution means that they must follow the rigorous
standards to obtain a neutral point of view associated with academia. The article
was published in the February, 2008 edition of the Media, Culture & Society
journal.
3.
The
text is reliable because its purpose is to inform on the topic of soccer and
culture. It is not sponsored by any
commercial entity and does not have any apparent biases. Also there is a lengthy section for references
and works cited to support the statements and numbers used in the paper.
4.
This
source is appropriate for my project because the information was scientifically
and systematically collected in a way that attempted to remain as neutral as
possible. There are numerous citations
that can also be checked for credibility, which means that all parts of the
article can assist me in supporting my statements or providing certain points
of view. The only downside is that the
article is lengthy and somewhat technical making reading the article long and
tedious. Also information is not always
clearly stated and must be extracted, which is an acquired skill.
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