Citations, Who Needs 'Em? We Do!!

We feel that citing is important for credit should be given to the authors of articles from which our group gathered information from throughout the blog.  In our blog, each author will use ideas that are not their own, and proper citations are necessary, for without this information the creation of our blog and posts would be impossible. Citing is also a validation that our own work is correct, for if a reader questions our information, then they can go back and check the sources that we used for further evidence that supports our claim. The use of citations gives our blog an improved sense of credibility.
   

We have decided to use the MLA format throughout our blog to credit sources that members of our group have used. We have chosen MLA format, for we feel that it will give the most credit to the author and this format increases the ease of validating our information. The MLA citation for each source that we use will appear at the bottom of the respective post. The articles used will be mentioned in the text by either the title or by the author or authors who wrote the piece. When appropriate, we will also provide hyperlinks to the articles that we used. By mentioning the authors or title within the post, we feel that we are still giving partial credit that will be buttressed later by the full MLA citation. The hyperlinks we feel will provide ease to those seeking to validate our information, and will provide further credit to the cited authors, for a direct link to their article or work is being provided.

The People and Motivation Behind the Blog for the Chill, Athletic Student

My name is Robert Orlan, but most people call me RC (Robert Charles). I have lived in Philly, Houston, Miami, Dallas and Richmond, but my family is moving to Nashville this summer. I love sports. I have been playing baseball all my life and continued that for I am on the team at UNC Chapel Hill. Out of high school I was drafted by the LA Dodgers, but I wanted an education to safeguard myself. When I am not playing baseball, I enjoy playing video games, fishing, and golfing. I am not a huge fan of the winter because I cannot do many of my sporting activities when it is snowing outside. Outside of sports I am very laid back person because I am always tired from practice. I am very competitive and I hate to lose in everything I do.

Hey, my name is Kacie Albert, and I am one of several authors posting to this blog. While thinking of how to introduce myself to my readers, I thought of the basic things to tell you about such as my family, I have two siblings, my pets, I have cats, dogs, and horses, my favorite things, and just about myself in general, I was born in AZ and have lived in NC and NJ. I however, decided to skip the boring and common questions, and apprise you about information that truly represents me as a person. I am a freshman at UNC Chapel Hill and I am a Sports Administration major. My life has been driven by my highly competitive nature and my love for sports, thus the reason for my major. I am now a member of the varsity fencing team at UNC and prior to becoming a member of the UNC team my high school team were repeat state champions in NJ, my home state. I settled for nothing less than number one when I would compete. In addition to fencing, I have ridden horses for twelve years. My competitive nature was once again reflected here for not only did I compete against other riders, I competed against the clock in timed jumping. Aside from my competitive spirit, I like to think of myself as a personable, outgoing individual and one who is easy to talk to. One important thing many should know about me, is how I despise wordiness and in general how I hate writing. Thus, my goal with my posts to this blog is to not be boring, for I want my readers to be able to stay awake while reading my pieces, not falling asleep like I know many have. I hate to write for the way it was forced upon me and I hope with this blog to show my readers that writing, and reading, can be fun.

 

My name is Maggie Nash and I recently transferred from North Carolina State University and am now a junior at UNC Chapel Hill, where I am currently majoring in psychology. After graduating I hope to go to graduate school, where I want to specialize in forensic psychology. My interest in psychology came from a summer study abroad program at Oxford University, where I studied psychology with many great professors. Most people would describe me as a down to earth person who enjoys speaking my mind, psychology, sleeping, traveling, helping others, and most importantly sports. I played soccer from age four up until college. In high school I played for my school team and another team on the side. I also ran cross country my junior year, and was captain of the swim team in my junior and senior years of high school. I also enjoy watching sports like football and basketball. Sports have always been a good fit for my personality, seeing as how I am very competitive by nature. Soccer and swimming were also good stress relievers for me. As one can see, sports and exercise have always been an important part of my life. Unfortunately as much a I enjoy sports and physical activity I dislike writing. I have always been told that I writ too much like I speak, I am too wordy, and don’t stay focused. However hopefully my love of sports and my tenacious personality will make me a good addition to this group since sports will be our focus. Through my involvement in sports I have learned how important it is to work as a team, for it takes everyone contributing to be a good team, and this will be reflected in the relationship of the five authors of this blog.

 

My name is Kaylie McCraw and I am a sophomore Exercise and Sports Science major from Marion, NC. My passion remains for athletics, so I tend to relate my personal experiences and opinions to sports. I cheer competitively for UNC, am a member of the Pi Beta Phi fraternity, and enjoy supporting our varsity athletic teams. Vacations and shopping sprees are a couple of my favorite things and the colors of pink and Carolina blue are my favorites. I hate feet, and I would much rather be at a tropical location. I love hiking and anything that involves being outside. When it comes to writing, I prefer to write how I would say it orally, so hopefully my small town slang and country accent will not interfere too frequently! I can either be the sweetest or the meanest person you will ever meet. I am determined, impatient, cheerful, and, at times, clueless. You can love me or hate me. I promise it won’t make me or break me.

I am Leah Griffin and I am a sophomore Public Relations major. I enjoy hanging out with my friends and family. Being on the cheerleading team at UNC keeps me busy and has introduced me to many new friends who portray the same cheerful personality as I do. I strive to be a motivated and consistent author who shows determination and dependability towards my writing and posts. Throughout the course of this blog, I hope to improve my writing style and my ability to interest my readers and others through my work.

We like to avoid writing at all costs, write how we speak, and all share an intense love for athletics. The authors of this blog have all been influenced, in one manner or another, by sports. We all, as corny as it may sound, eat, sleep, and breathe our respective sports. We are therefore targeting viewers who share the same passion that we do. Upon collaboration, it has been decided to enliven our posts by relating them all back to the general topic of athletics. The authors of this blog embody the personality of a “chill” student who would love to be anywhere else, mainly on a field or in gym, rather than in a desk. We will thus, with this blog, embark on a mission to make the posts to this blog entertaining to our audience for they will all be based on a sports related issue. Whether we are posting from a natural science, social science, or humanities perspective, one can be sure that the topic of any given post will relate to athletics. If you love sports and plainly, hate school, read this blog!

The authors of this blog, as mentioned before, would rather be anywhere else than in a classroom learning English and its principles. We authors take a more relaxed approach to our writing and tend in general to write how we speak. Instead of using “fancy” tools, such as the semi colon, we will make our writing simple yet entertaining, by making aspects of our personalities visible. We feel that by taking this more relaxed approach, our readers will be able to stay awake and be entertained by what we have to post about. We also feel that the sports fanatics, who will be reading this blog, will find the less technical jargon more pleasing. Hope y’all sport crazed fans enjoy this blog!