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AIS 1233: Research for Debates (Dones)
Search strategies, suggested keywords, and selected resources to prepare for debates in Professor Dones' class.
Head of Research Engagement and Scholarly Communication
Debate Topics
The purpose of this guide is to offer a few research tips to help you prepare for your class debates.
Topics
- College should be free for everyone.
- College athletes should be paid.
- Colleges should spend equal amounts on men's sports and women's sports.
Identifying Keywords
Figuring out which keywords to use is a crucial first step of your research. Once you start searching, look for clues and further ideas in your results. Try combining these terms in different variations when searching. A few suggestions:
- Free tuition, tuition-free college, "free college"
- College athletes paid, pay, compensation, salary
- Title IX, college sports, women sports, spending, funding, profitability
Key Resources
These are key resources presenting opposing views to start your research. Experiment with the keywords. Depending on your topic, you may or may not find relevant results, but give it a try!
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale) This link opens in a new windowProvides information on contemporary social issues including pro/con viewpoint articles, statistical tables, charts and graphs, primary documents, biographies, court case overviews, images, video and audio files, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. Periodical content includes Lexile reading levels. Updated continuously.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowProvides in-depth, analytical reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day. Every week a new report examines a single topic of public concern giving the reader a broad overview of the subject, including historical background, and a discussion of current controversies and initiatives, highlighting the range of opinions among experts.
- ProQuest This link opens in a new windowProvides access to journal and newspapers articles. Use filters on the left-hand side to limit by dates for more recent articles and types of content.
- Pew Research CenterNonpartisan research and statistics on a number of topics including immigration, social trends, U.S. politics, religion, the media, technology, and more.
- AllSides.comAllSides presents news and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum and provides tools to recognize media bias.
After you check out these resources, explore the links provided below for each topic. Look out for the type of source, how credible it is, when it was published, and author's credentials.
Free College
- Google Scholar on Tuition Free CollegeScholarly articles on this topic. Click on Cite By link to see what else was written on this topic.
College Athletes Pay
- Google Scholar on Compensation for College AthletesScholarly articles on this topic. Click on Cited By link to view more recent articles citing this source. Try other keywords, such as salary, pay, paid.
- DuckDuckGo on College Athletes CompensationTry other searches with this search engine using get paid OR salary OR pay in place of compensation.
Funding College Sports
- NCAA External Gender Equity Review (Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP)Executive Summary of a 3rd party review of NCAA gender equity practices.
- The State of Women in College Sports: Title IX 50th Anniversary Report (NCAA)An anniversary report from NCAA.
- Pew Research on Title IX and Gender EqualityA blog post with relevant survey results from Pew Research.
- Sports Market Analytics This link opens in a new windowFind college athletics market research and statistics. Go to Summaries in the header > College Market.
- Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (Department in Education)Explore these Google search results. Find EADA statistics by college and sports.
- Funding College Women SportsExplore Google results.
- Statista This link opens in a new windowFind statistics and data on college sports. Search for NCAA College Sports for a dossier. Search women college sports for various relevant stats and compare to men college sports.