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Children Need To Play, Not Compete By Jessica Statsky

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Little League Competitiveness Are children suppose play sports to be competitive or play sports to have fun? This is a question asked by many who have children of their own or the question is asked by others who are watching these children play. One person who thinks children should play sports to have fun instead of playing to be competitive is Jessica Statsky. Jessica Statsky wrote the article “Children Need To Play, Not Compete” and in this article she argues why it is better for children to play for the fun instead of playing to compete to win. There are many communities who believe everyone is a winner and rewards kids with a trophy whether they win or lose and others just forget the season if they lose and do not give their players a pat on the back. Jessica Statsky uses the seven key rhetorical factors which include, author, audience, point, purpose, organization, presentation and research and evidence, in her essay and receives help from other sources to backup her claim on why it is bad for children to compete in …show more content…

Although she may not be famous she is still credible in a way, because she uses credible sources to backup her claim on why it is not good for children to be exposed to competitiveness at a young age. Jessica Stasky n.d. is an American college student who wrote “Children Need To Play, Not Compete” for her college composition course(Jessica Statsky, n.d., 270 para. I). However, Jessica Statsky is not fully credible since she is only a college student writing about why people should not support children playing competitive sports at a young age. In “Children Need To Play, Not Compete” Statsky writes about how it is unhealthy to put children in at adult standards in relation to competitiveness. This source would be considered credible since Jessica Statsky had to backup her claims with sources since she was trying to prove a point in her college

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