Your Choice: Do You Run in Shoes or Barefoot

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Topic Selection Prewriting with Perspective Summary Your Choice, Do you run in Shoes or Barefoot? 1. What is your chosen topic, and how did you come across it? Why is it interesting to you? What do you personally hope to gain or accomplish by writing about this topic? My topic of choice is minimalist running shoes, barefoot running versus regular running shoes. I chose this topic because I am a runner. It started back in college when I was running cross-country and track. After a workout I would run barefoot across the field barefoot and feel the tension leave my feet. As I got older I started reading about the Kenyans who ran barefoot from birth and how successful they were in the competitive circuit. A few years later I started to see ads about minimalist shoes and a trend of people starting to wear these shoes as a fad. I did my research and discovered that “minimalist” running shoes were our version of barefoot running. My goal is to educate people about the different running shoes that are available to them. 2. Provide a brief summary of the topic. Explain the current issues surrounding the topic and share at least two different positions on the topic. I will discuss the difference between barefoot running, minimalist running and the traditional running shoe. My intent is to educate the readers on the different options that are available to them from what I have researched and from first hand experience. http://www.barefootrunning.fas.harvard.edu http://www.backcountry.com/sc/minimalist-vs-traditional-running-shoes 3. What specific issues will you write about within the larger topic, and what unique angle will you provide? I will write about the history of barefoot running and then write about the differences between barefoot running, minimalist running shoe and regular running shoes. My angle will be from

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