Length: 7 pages in total: six pages of writing (double spaced) + one-page APA re

Length: 7 pages in total: six pages of writing (double spaced) + one-page APA references list (double spaced)
Your paper will not be read beyond the first seven pages and the grade will be based on these pages.
Grading criteria: 12 marks for a clear, well-presented essay with insightful discussion; 8 marks for correctly presented
APA in-text citations and references list (7th edition APA style required)
Format: 12pt Times New Roman, running header, double line spacing, numbered pages, one-inch page margins,
paragraphing required, no direct quotation or close paraphrase, essay structure required: introductory paragraph, body
paragraphs (there is no set number), conclusion paragraph
Overview: Professions in kinesiology and healthcare are increasingly calling for understanding and sensitivity to
sociocultural issues among practitioners, in order to deliver services and care more effectively in our complex society.
This assignment invites you to engage in critical reflection on how concepts and issues you have learned about in
KINE1000 may have value to you in your current or future professional life in a kinesiology and/or health-related career
field. This is a thesis-based essay that involves research, analysis and reflection (see instructions below).
Instructions:
1. Investigate kinesiology/health-related career fields. These include (but are not limited to) the following: athletic
trainer, chiropractic, coaching, dentist, dietician, exercise physiologist, fitness specialist, nursing, occupational therapy,
optometry, paramedic, pharmacology, phys. ed. teacher, physical therapy, psychiatry, surgeon. Pick a career field that
interests you and learn about what it involves – perhaps you are considering entering the profession or you may like to
know more about it.
2. Research problems (broadly construed) that clients/patients and/or practitioners in the profession have experienced
when receiving/administering services/care. Select cases that you believe have relevance to the paradigm of our course.
Your research should consist of a combination of trawling mainstream media for recent sources (e.g., newspaper articles,
popular magazine articles, reports on news websites) that speak directly to these problems, and exploring scholarly peerreviewed academic journal articles and books that speak directly and/or indirectly to these problems.
3. Reflect on how what you have learned in KINE1000 would be useful to you in the profession, particularly in relation to
the problems you have identified during your research.
4. Write a six-page essay in which you 1) describe the profession, 2) explain how key course concepts have relevance to
the problems you identified, and 3) in light of these problems, discuss how what you have learned in KINE1000 would be
an asset to you as a practitioner and to your clients/patients in terms of the service/care they receive.
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5. Use APA in-text citations for the sources you use in your essay. You are required to use a minimum of six sources,
consisting of 1) two mainstream media pieces such as newspaper articles, popular magazine articles, reports on news
websites (no social media or blogs allowed); 2) two peer-reviewed academic journal articles, and 3) two academic books
(you may substitute one of your academic books for a government source if you wish).
6. Create an APA references page for the sources you cite in your essay