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“Women Coaching Men”

by Darren Mooney

Essay Thesis and Organization

 What is the impact of starting the essay with the story from Canisius College?

What is the thesis? Since the thesis is not in the first paragraph, how does the author build up to it?

 Do the examples in the essay match the conclusions in the overview sources and studies?
How does the author explain the results of some studies by reference to their time periods?

 List the examples from the essay in order. Why did the author present the examples in this order?

 How does the author integrate the personal interview into the essay?

 How does the author explain the current situation for women coaching men? How does he justify his prediction for the future?

Sources

 Among the sources, how many are about specific coaches, and how many are studies or overviews?

 What does the author write for the annotations of the sources?

 Place the sources into categories: magazine articles, journal sources, Web sources, interviews. How can the author trust the Web sources that he chose?

 Explain the designation “Path” that follows the URL’s in some of the bibliographic entries for Web sites.

 On the first page of the essay, some of the citations have quotation marks inside. Why?