In your paper,
Identify a sport facilities manager in the local community-Shaquan Brown
Identify the name of the facility and the name of the town/city where the facility is located-SeaTac, WA YMCA
Include a brief introduction on the type, history, use, and purpose of the facility, whether it is a private or municipal facility, and which segment of the public the facility serves.
Conduct an interview with the sport facility manager over the phone or in person.
Summarize the questions and the facilities sport manager’s responses.
Compare the interview responses obtained in the interview to the content outlined in the course related to the specific topic.
Outline a detailed comparison of the interview responses with the course content.
Include a review of the interview responses obtained from the interviewee.
Expand on any responses that you felt were vague or incomplete.
Support your discussion with course content.
Identify the skills and competencies from Week 3 that your interviewee also identified as applicable based on the job description identified in Week 2 and the interview.
Explain how the interviewee applied the skills or competencies.
Include examples.
The Understanding and Applying Management of Sport Facilities Final Paper
Must be eight double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
Must use at least three scholarly and/or credible sources (Wikipedia is not considered a scholarly or credible source), in addition to the course text.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.
One source that must be used:
Sawyer, T. H. (Ed.). (2013). Facility planning and design for health, physical activity, recreation, and sport (13th ed.). Urbana, IL: Sagamore Venture Publishing.