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Michelle Ries

Mr. Paudel

English 102

3 February 2015

Writing Within Kinesiology

​Kinesiology is the study of health and human performances; within this major you can specifically study sports administration or exercise science. With a degree in health and human performance you can acquire a job as a physical therapist, physical education teacher, a personal trainer or an athletic trainer. Kinesiologists are required to understand, communicate and share their research and knowledge of their studies to not only their patients but to other doctor’s as well.When choosing a profession in this field it is important to recognize the requirements that you must attain. Although you may not know, writing plays a certain role within kinesiology and in kinesiology, writing is based on certain techniques. Examples of these writings include research projects, lab reports, case study articles, medical notes, and patient recommendations.

​When writing in kinesiology it is important to know your purpose, and who you audience is so that you can chose the correct genre, stance and media for your particular writing. Your audience will most likely be your patients or other doctors researching the same topic. In research projects your purpose is to research and gain knowledge on a particular topic and report your findings. In some cases, you may test your research or use it to support your ideas and understandings in health and human performance. The genre you chose depends on the purpose of your writing. In a case study article or a lab report you must include an abstract, background information, a purpose, different methods, the results, and your discussion or opinion on the study.

It is important to be knowledgeable with your stance, and make sure that your attitude fits the genre of your paper. It is important to think in positive terms if you are a personal or athletic trainer because your job is to help encourage and boost confidence in health and human performance. So your attitude in any patient recommendations needs to be positive and encouraging. The media varies with writing in kinesiology, but in a medical note or patient recommendation you may use diagrams to explain exercises for rehabilitation or to explain an injury.

Lara Pro states, “Another particular writing that is done as a personal or athletic trainer is advertisement. It is necessary that you advertise yourself and your knowledge so that you can gain more clientele.” Lara uses Instagram, Twitter, and other social medias to advertise herself. She also is a distributor of a productcalled Advocare, which is a 24-day challenge to help cleanse yourself and start eating healthier meals. This helps her because this is an informal writing that she can produce to allow her followers to be comfortable with exercising and their own bodies. Advertising is important in this profession because it is an informal writing that allows you to share what you know through your own experiences. “It can create a trusting bond between you and your clientele,” Lara says.

Although there is not a huge difference in writing for bachelors, masters and doctorate degree there are a few differences like the style or genre. If you are perusing a bachelor’s degree, not a lot of writing is done. Yes, there are research papers that are required but most of the work is done hands on. “I did more labs when I was getting my bachelor degree.” Lara agrees that there are more “hands on” activities.Writing as a graduate in this field is more research, and knowing the knowledge without research. Lara claims that critiquing is a big step up from studying in this profession as an undergraduate. She also states that your word choice must be advanced and you need to know all of the terms that are important to know within this profession. When writing research papers it is important to use various, correct, reliable sources without using the Internet and sometimes your own opinion.  

This is all I have for now, I still need to add more quotes from my interviews and cite my sources.