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Title: Benefits of Sports Participation on Youth Development
Author: Chea Johnson
Date: November 22, 2018
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This assignment required students to perform scholarly research investigating a topic, issue, or challenge in the park, recreation, tourism, or sports industry. The assignment started with selecting a topic, finding supporting facts and documents supporting the issue, and then organizing the information researched and presenting information in a manner that gave a compelling argument establishing the validity of the position taken. The final step in the completion was to properly cite the sources in which supporting information was retrieved.
This process allowed me to reflect on how important and valuable using research and statistics to assist in justifying a position and/or argument. As an employee of a government entity (Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department) and manager of a non-profit organization (Charlotte Elite Academy), I am aware of the need to be able to effectively articulate and lobby for what is needed to provide essential programs and services. In both the public and non-profit sector, the need to justify funding and programming is essential to their operation. Many of the assignments and course discussions demonstrated how to use the process of compiling and organizing researched information for the purpose of securing essential business needs.
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