User:HarleyForet/sandbox/Annotated Bibliography Assignment

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Wikipedia Search Topic : Parasports

Question from Findings : Are parasports really as beneficial to the injured athletes as they are made out to be?

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(1) In this scholarly article from Parnell, the author introduces the question of whether athletes with spinal cord injuries (SCI) and their coaches understand the overall consequences from parasports. The term consequences, in this sense, means how the body of a spinal cord injury athlete is holding up during these parasports. Parnell and her team begin a questionnaire for spinal cord injury athletes and coaches to understand what they know versus what they do not. This article includes statistical tables with the findings from the given questionnaire. The scientists behind this questionnaire have included every possible aspect for the athletes and divided their findings into the following list: gender, race, type of sport.... just to name a few. Parnell's overall point of view is informative, as the author demonstrates to the following readers what details in a parasport athlete's life need to be prioritized more to avoid even further injury.

(2) This second scholarly article is another scientific questionnaire to parasports, but this time, the main objective is towards environmental factors. The environmental factors described in this article include much about the athlete's personal profile. Characteristics discussed in the questionnaire include: how many school years did each athlete attend, how long has the athlete been disabled, and how long has the athlete played the particular sport. The following characteristics listed above have their own table in the article with the numerical results for the athlete's responses. Having the authors go in the personal direction with the questionnaire, let's the athlete answering the questions become more open. Their answers will not be one ended, straight forward response. Instead, the injured athletes can now tell stories about themselves that maybe no one has ever heard before. With that in mind, the author's point of view appears to be on an intimate, pleasant scale.

(3) The following academic article has a broader aspect to follow. The Cote-Leclerc, along with the other authors, main objective is to generally see which parasports affect a wheelchair users' life, and in what ways. Most of the results from their experiment were only based on social aspects of the wheelchair users' life. This article does touch on the injured athlete's physical feelings but briefly. Briefly describing the physical point means that this article details the obvious pains one may feel during these sports. Cote-Leclerc gives this article a sense of an easy read, or better yet, eligible for any age to understand. With that in mind, this article is a fantastic way to introduce parasports to someone who does not know about them or to someone who may be injured and want to join parasports. Cote-Leclerc has the point of view of encouragement by showing the positive aspects parasports have on a disabled individual.