Paying college athletes
Assignment Instructions: 4-page essay Focus on only one position ( FOR or against ) and offer four topic points that support your position. If, however, you are arguing FOR Paying college athletes, you will provide three topic points followed by a detailed explanation of how college athletes will be financially compensated.
Make sure you achieve the following requirements:
INTRODUCTION
A. Title: Be clear, concise, and creative. Type the subject, followed by a colon, followed by your clear, concise, and creative position on the problem you will illustrate.(for example Paying College Athletes: Free Market Economics. )
B. Opening Strategy: Your Opening Strategy is your attention grabber, and it must be a story-based example: Either Personal Experience (PE), Other People\’s Experience (OPE), Case Scenario (CS), Hypothetical (Hypo), or Hypo-Combo (HC). Remember: Introductions should be limited to three paragraphs or less. Most introductions are one paragraph. If you do a hypo-combo, then it might be two paragraphs.
C. Thesis: Your thesis statement is the main idea and focus of the entire essay. For this essay, you are taking a position FOR only one of the Paying College Athletes. You can reference the Pro/Con list PDF downloads titled Paying Student Athletes: For and Against to help you determine which position you are going to take as well as which topic points you will include within your thesis that you will then examine in your body paragraphs. If your essay takes a position (for or Against) Paying College Athletes, limit your topic points to a maximum of four. If, however, you choose to argue For Paying College Athletes, you will need three topic points AND a solution on how to pay them. Remember: Your thesis should end your introduction as the last sentence of the final paragraph of the introduction.
BODY
1. Topic 1: Topic sentence 1, minimum of three pieces of evidence (including facts, statistics, quotes from expert authorities, or story-based case scenarios), and your response analysis.
2. Topic 2: Topic sentence 2, a minimum of three pieces of evidence (including facts, statistics, quotes from expert authorities, or story based case scenarios), and your response analysis.
3. Topic 3: Topic sentence 3, minimum of three pieces of evidence (including facts, statistics, quotes from expert authorities, or story based case scenarios), and your response analysis.
4. Topic 4: Topic Sentence 4. minimum of three pieces of evidence (including facts, statistics, quotes from expert authorities, or story based case scenarios), and your response analysis.
NOTE: If you are taking the position FOR Paying College Athletes, then you will only have three topic points, and your forth body paragraph must illustrate how college athletes should be compensated. Evidence is not necessarily needed here, although it will help. What is crucial, however, is that you explain how in detail how a financial system to compensate college athletes will be implemented. Do not simply state your how to pay college athletes in general terms.
CONCLUSION
You must conclude your essay with a Book End that revisits the Opening Strategy (OS) example you started your essay within the introduction.
Please include signal phrases, evidence quotes, in-text citations, responses/analysis, and works cited page.
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