Prompt #4

by Emily Goltz

Hi everyone! This week, I will be answering one of our prompts about the difference in a blog post and an actual article or book. The point of this is to show the reader and audience which one is more beneficial for the specific reader. Both the blog and the book are important to the kinesiology field and world because it gives different levels of commitment to the subject and allows the reader to pick which one is better for them.

First off, I chose a blog called the Total Therapy. It is run by a professor or student from the College of Kinesiologists of Ontario in Canada. It is a very clean and well organized blog with sections dedicated to showing you where each topic is and labeling everything. I would say the blog is for beginners who are just getting into kinesiology or who are just wondering what it is as a whole. It is very informative on telling the reader what kinesiology is, what it does, and when or where you use it. Besides the basic kinesiology information, it also gives you helpful links and videos that also help describe it and other health information.

The second resource I found is a Google Scholar called Research in Biomechanics. It is written by D. Gordon E. Robertson, Graham E. Caldwell, Joseph Hamill, Gary Kamen, and Saunders N. Whittlesey. It is a book that goes into depth about everything that has to do with the function and movement of the body and kinesiology and so forth. The book looks like it is a book for a class in biomechanics. From the bits and pieces that I have read, it is very helpful and detailed. The book definitely reaches out to kinesiology or human biology majors. It seems like a higher level book so I assume it is for a class you would take deeper into your major.

http://www.totaltherapy.ca/blog/what-is-a-kinesiologist/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Douglas_Robertson6/publication/259237520_Research_Methods_in_Biomechanics_Second_edition_print/links/0c96052a8e17255a02000000.pdf