All-Star Persuasive Speech On Why Cheer Should Be Considered A Sport?

[Haley0430]

If this is in the wrong section please move it, I'm doing a speech on why competitive cheer should be considered a sport. I'm not sure where to start with my research. I plan on opening with the definition of a sport and going from there. Has anyone else done a speech like this? Any advice? Thank you so much in advance! I love fierce board for this reason!

 

[ErinS]

If this is in the wrong section please move it, I'm doing a speech on why competitive cheer should be considered a sport. I'm not sure where to start with my research. I plan on opening with the definition of a sport and going from there. Has anyone else done a speech like this? Any advice? Thank you so much in advance! I love fierce board for this reason!

I'm going to work on the assumption from your default pic (based on the gym uniform) that we're from the same area, and as a librarian at the library system in your area, I'd suggest going to the the library systems website, clicking on resources, research tools, all a-z, and then looking for "Opposing Viewpoints" and "Points of View Reference Center" and click on home access and put in your library card number. You can also try looking in Academic Search Premier

Try plugging in a couple different search strategies with "cheer" "cheerleading" "sport" "athletics" etc using boolean operators (and, and not)... ie. Cheerleading and sport; cheerleading not athletic etc.

Just try a couple different searches and see if any articles come up. I don't know if anything is in there off hand, but its worth a shot.

I would go ahead and look for you...but I mean...I'm not at work thanks to Winter Storm Leon...

 

[Haley0430]

I'm going to work on the assumption from your default pic (based on the gym uniform) that we're from the same area, and as a librarian at the library system in your area, I'd suggest going to the the library systems website, clicking on resources, research tools, all a-z, and then looking for "Opposing Viewpoints" and "Points of View Reference Center" and click on home access and put in your library card number. You can also try looking in Academic Search Premier

Try plugging in a couple different search strategies with "cheer" "cheerleading" "sport" "athletics" etc using boolean operators (and, and not)... ie. Cheerleading and sport; cheerleading not athletic etc.

Just try a couple different searches and see if any articles come up. I don't know if anything is in there off hand, but its worth a shot.

I would go ahead and look for you...but I mean...I'm not at work thanks to Winter Storm Leon...

I assume you mean the charleston county library system? Not sure if it matters but I live in Goose Creek, do you know if its the same on the berkley county website? Thank you so much for the help though this will be a great start! Thank you again!

 

[ErinS]

I assume you mean the charleston county library system? Not sure if it matters but I live in Goose Creek, do you know if its the same on the berkley county website? Thank you so much for the help though this will be a great start! Thank you again!

Yeah, CCPL, I have a friend that's a librarian in Berkeley County that I could try to get in contact with if you'd like, but I'm pretty sure the databases would be the same, since they're all available through SCDISCUS. I'm just not sure how their home access works.

Try going to scdiscus.org and searching for the databases. It used to prompt you to put in log in information, but I was able to just pull up a few articles without logging in... but theres also a video about logging in so try that if it tries to prompt you log in

Here's a citation for one of the articles I just found

Americano, News. "Cheerleading: It should be a sport." American News 13 Nov. 2013: Points of View Reference Center. Web. 28 Jan. 2014.

Make sure you select "full text" when searching

Also try their Smartsearch feature. Click best bets and it will search the databases for you

 

[Haley0430]

Yeah, CCPL, I have a friend that's a librarian in Berkeley County that I could try to get in contact with if you'd like, but I'm pretty sure the databases would be the same, since they're all available through SCDISCUS. I'm just not sure how their home access works.

Try going to scdiscus.org and searching for the databases. It used to prompt you to put in log in information, but I was able to just pull up a few articles without logging in... but theres also a video about logging in so try that if it tries to prompt you log in

Here's a citation for one of the articles I just found

Americano, News. "Cheerleading: It should be a sport." American News 13 Nov. 2013: Points of View Reference Center. Web. 28 Jan. 2014.

Make sure you select "full text" when searching

Also try their Smartsearch feature. Click best bets and it will search the databases for you

I've used scdiscus for a research paper recently and didnt even think of that! Thanks again! :)

 

[ErinS]

I've used scdiscus for a research paper recently and didnt even think of that! Thanks again! :)

No problem.... I'm just glad my day and a half off from work wasn't in vain...