Write a research paper on the topic, “Is pickleball Canada’s fastest-growing sport?”

Write a research paper on the topic, “Is pickleball Canada’s fastest-growing sport?”Create a multimodal project that investigates and explores a focused research question about an aspect
of where you live (i.e., in Lubbock; in a specific area within a city [TTU housing, for example]; and/or in
another city, state, or region). Drawing on primary research, your multimodal project should go beyond
a physical description of the location and examine a detailed question (or two) that you have about the
experience(s) of doing life in this place. In other words, you are invited to discover more about this place
as a site of cultural, social, and material realities, as you engage with interesting research (like
observations, interviews, and secondary research, if necessary).

For this project, you will make interesting connections between your focused research question and the
sources you are working with. Those connections do not just exist “out there”: Good researchers make
those connections for their audience and do interesting things with the research. You will need to
consider who your audience is and to develop a clear statement of purpose for your multimodal project.
Who do you want to reach with this project? And, in what ways and through what methods will you best
be able to achieve your goal(s)? You will want to choose the genre, medium, form, and organization of
ideas that will best engage your audience in order to successfully reach your purpose (to investigate and
explore, NOT to argue a point). You will want to find models of the genre and form to help you
understand the conventions expected of this genre and medium. For example, if you select to create an
interactive essay for a specific online venue, you should read/view models in that venue to understand
the conventions and expectations of that forum and audience.
To explore your focused research question, you should draw on primary research—or data and
information that you’ve gathered yourself. While you’re welcome to include secondary research (what
others have already said about your topic), you should explore your research question primarily through
primary research: interviews, observations of places or spaces, quasi-ethnographic studies, historical
documents, oral histories, and so forth.

1. What was your focused research question(s)? What, specifically, are your goals (personal and
rhetorical) in creating this multimodal project to investigate this question(s)? What does this
multimodal project do and for whom (the audience)?
2. You will make a lot of choices as you create this multimodal project. What specific choices did
you make in service of accomplishing these goals? Include both intentional choices and choices
you made that you only realized were choices after the fact. Include a discussion of choices
regarding material and technology (what you used and how), methods (how you researched and
approached your audience), and rhetoric (organization of ideas, visual/sonic experiences for the
audience, the inclusion or exclusion of material, and so forth).
3. Why did you pursue this plan and make these choices instead of other plans or choices? How
did these choices help you accomplish your goals?
4. What risks did you take and why? How did those risks play out in terms of accomplishing your
goals with the project?
This statement is a formal essay: It should make clear claims about your process and product supported
by explanation and evidence.

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