In Class: Primary Sources

My topic for the rhetorical analysis essay is Liverpool Football Club's buyout by John Henry and New England Sports Ventures. Because this event happend in the United Kingdom, the majority of the articles and blogs were non American. This made it extremely hard in finding good, long pieces to analyze. With much difficulty, I was able to find three primary sources that were good enough to write about. Two out of the three sources that I chose were a challenge to analyze because most of the information, albeit discriptive, was facts and quotations from British news agencies. Only one writer commented enough on the topic, and that author was someone who supported and knew about Liverpool long before the sale took place.Trying to write a rhetorical analysis on authors who show no signs of interest in the topic is more difficult, but I tried to use this in a positive way. By showing their lack of knowledge on the topic, I was able to write how ineffective they were as writers.

Unit 2 proposal

For my unit 2 proposal I decided to write about New England Sports Ventures takeover of Liverpool fc from the now owners, George Gillett and Tom Hicks. I chose this topic because it is happening right now and there should be plenty of primary sources available. There is also a very big debate going on due to the fact that American owners will be replaced by more Americans. People are worried that the new owners will run the club into the ground like the previous ones did. My primary sources will come mostly from news organizations like Fox Soccer and BBC America but I also intend to use first hand accounts from blogs. Because the event is happening right now, it shouldn't be too difficult distinguishing between primary and secondary sources; I expect almost everything to be primary.

I chose this topic because Liverpool fc is my favorite team and it seemed like a good topic which will have a variety of different styled sources. It should be interesting to look at an American writer's perspective over that of a British one due to the fact that many Brits want nothing to do with American owners and Americans haven't firmly grasped the concept of the values and passions of soccer in England.