Legal Issues in Sports Management

Legal Issues in Sports Management

HSTM 3353 Research Paper Guidelines

Introduction:

These guidelines are intended to provide you direction in writing your research papers. They are not exhaustive, but merely provide guidance in your writing. There will be some specifics on here, but by and large, I cannot tell you how to write your paper; that is your job. You are expected to write a research paper that does not merely summarize a topic but instead critically analyzes a topic and offers a discussion based upon previous research findings as well as your own opinion injected into the paper.  You will be expected to offer critical analysis and thinking to your topic, not just talk and talk for pages and pages.

Legal Issues in Sports Management

Timeline:

  • Topics for the research paper must be approved. Students who have not had a topic approved will lose one letter grade on their research paper.

O To gain approval for a topic, please complete the Topic Approval Assignment under the Assignments tab in the course.

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  • Rough drafts for the research paper are due prior to the final paper submission. See the Research Paper Draft Assignment under the Assignments tab.
  • Final versions for the research paper are due by the specified date in the Course Schedule. Late papers will NOT be accepted!

Topic and Cases:

This is a legal issues in sport management class. I have left it up to you to choose a topic of interest. You need to make sure you have chosen a topic that is neither too broad (e.g., Drugs and Sports) nor too narrow (e.g., a topic with no case law). You need to have researched your topic before you decide upon it. It will be difficult for you to write a paper on a sport law topic for which you cannot find any cases. You can find case law pertaining to a topic from a variety of sources:

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  • Your textbook cites numerous cases. These case citations are included in the book and can be used to pull the cases themselves off of LexisNexis. You will not, however, be able to pick a topic your book covers and only use those cases cited in the chapter. This paper requires that you do some actual research.
  • You can search on the LexisNexis database by subject using keywords. It takes a bit of practice, but it can be done.
  • You may use the Troy Libraries homepage to search in a variety of databases for law journal articles on a particular topic, such as drug testing. Then, while reading those articles for your topic, you will read about cited cases in those articles. You will need to use journal articles in your paper.

Legal Issues in Sports Management

Outline:

The basic outline of your paper should be as follows:

  1. Title Page
  2. Tell me your title, class, and date.
  3. Introduction
  4. Introduce the subject of your paper. It may help to mention recent developments in the issue/subject.
  5. The Introduction should feed into your next section.
  6. Statement of Problem/Issue
  7. Tell me why this is an important issue.
  8. Have other studied this before? If so, why is it important to do further research? If not, how is the issue important?!

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  1. Literature Review
  2. This will be the bulk of your paper.
  3. You are reviewing and summarizing the literature/cases on your given topic.
  4. Talk about other research in this area. What have other scholars found?
  5. Discussion
  6. This is where your opinion starts to come into play. Don’t just tell me that Title IX needs to be done away with, tell me why that is a reasoned stance and support it with research.
  7. Conclusion
  8. The ending to your paper. Don’t overlook this. It needs to tie everything together.
  9. References
  10. Need to be in APA format
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