Learning Outcome Two: Be able to integrate their ideas with those of others using summary, paraphrase, quotation, analysis, and synthesis of relevant sources.

Introduction: Bringing facts and evidence into your writing makes it come alive. Supporting evidence allows people’s writing to not be as dull. When trying to find supporting evidence to fit with your claims, I find that it is important to read carefully. It is helpful to me to mark things that I do not understand, or things that I have questions about. Once these are marked, I go back through and try to understand it to the best of my abilities. Then, I look up definitions if I still do not comprehend what it is trying to say. This class has improved my abilities of pulling apart material and making sense to it, and using the knowledge that was learned from the reading. Below is an example of my work, in blue is a claim that I made and in red is the supporting evidence that I found to go with it. 

Thunfors, P., Collins, B. N., & Hanlon, A. L. (2009). Health behavior interests of adolescents with unhealthy diet and exercise: Implications for weight management. Health Education Research, 24(4), 634-645. doi:10.1093/her/cyn064

This article demonstrates healthy exercise and dietary behaviors in high school students by having them complete a survey. Things that were recorded include: general health functioning, interest in sports, outdoor recreation, weightlifting, weight loss, and healthy eating/cooking. I could use this article for solution one which is healthy eating and cooking styles in dorm life. I would be able to use the statistics of how many people are interested in healthier eating and cooking. The claim I made: college students may be interested in exercising and healthy eating but they may not know how to cook or how to make time in their schedule. The quote, “The overall rates of interest in health behaviors ranged from 33% interested in outdoor recreation to 43% interested in healthy eating and cooking” (para. 18).

Waldron, J. J., & Dieser, R. B. (2010). Perspectives of fitness and health in college men and women. Journal of College Student Development, 51(1), 65-78. doi:10.1353/csd.0.0110

The authors show college student perspectives of healthy eating. It also shows how the media shapes these perspectives. The perspective of students will fit into my paper, it is good to know what the students actually think. In addition, it’s easier to work with students who feel the need to be healthier. 

Holistic Wellness as a Means to Developing a Lifestyle Approach to Health Behavior Among College Students. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3200/JACH.56.1.29-36. 

The authors examined the influence of an 11 week class primarily about holistic wellness. The results showed that after the class, activity levels increased along with self-efficacy and knowledge about holistic wellness. I could use this for solution one because it backs up the idea that if people are knowledgeable about healthy eating/cooking styles they will apply that to their everyday life.