Analyzing and Evaluating Introductions and Purpose Statements
In the article “Developing Long-Term Physical Activity Participation: A Grounded Theory Study with African American Women,” the first statement is a narrative hook that aims at introducing the topic and highlight its significance founded on the fact that it well ‘well established’ and qualifies as a topic of concern. Consequently, in the second statement, the general problem has been brought to the limelight; lack of exercise results to increased obesity rates among other critical health challenges (Harley et al., 2007). The authors have then mentioned that the general problem is prevalent to specific subgroups and particularly the African American women since they lead a sedentary lifestyle.
In the introduction, the authors have justified the significance of the problem through a brief elaboration of categories of studies whose main purpose was addressing the problem. The introduction is comprehensive in that it also identifies four different deficiencies that studies dealing with the topic have failed to meet; studies have failed to provide an understanding on how the target group can become physically active and maintain this, studies do not elucidate the pathways that link the key steps and factors in a behavioral procedure that leads to subsequent participation in physical activity, studies have failed to illustrate the behavioral process through which physical activity can be adopted and maintained with an intention of creating informing interventions for promoting physical activity participation, and finally, there is no behavioral framework or theory that can presently explain the entire process from adoption through maintenance of proper behaviors (Harley et al., 2007).
The research purpose that this article intends to meet is stated as the last sentence in the introduction and the research is explorative in nature. The introduction has achieved its main purpose but there may be a need for improvement. Through the statement ‘that would be most effective in informing interventions to enhance physical activity participation,’ the authors are merely hinting at audiences that are likely to benefit from the research (Harley et al., 2007). However, there should have been a more solid statement in regard to potential audiences particularly those that might come up with health prevention programs for the African American women.
A key concern about purpose statements and introductions is how to make them comprehensive yet brief so that after reading them, a person gets an overall overview of the entire research.
Reference
Harley, A. E., Buckworth, J., Katz, M. L., Willis, S. K. Odoms, A., & Heaney, C. A. (2007).Developing Long-Term Physical Activity Participation: A Grounded Theory Study With African American Women. Health Education & Behavior, 2 (1), 1- 23.
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