Blog Week 10

My research topic is performance enhancing drugs. By definition, this is very broad. However, I am going to be looking into the use of performance enhancing drugs by professional athletes. Specifically, I am going to look at instances where athletes took performance enhancing drugs that were illegal, and analyze the consequences and punishments given to those athletes. I am going to be analyzing the moral and ethical problems with the use of these drugs. Ultimately, I would like to come up with a solution of what to do with the athletes that are caught taking performance enhancing drugs during the competition of their respective sport.

The question that I will be answering is more specific than my topic as a whole. As of now, I have decided that my question will be, “How should professional athletes caught using illegal performance enhancing drugs be punished?”.

This research project will be argumentative. I am going to research the problem at hand, and really look in between the lines and try to come up with an answer to my question. I would like to argue that the claim that I will be making is correct, and that the audience should agree and accept my solution. While I will be doing research and using information and facts to prove my point, ultimately I would like to persuade the reader to agree with what I think.

The boundaries that I am going to stay within may be difficult to define. As of now, I think that I am only going to look at athletes in organized leagues. I will focus primarily on professional athletes, but do not want to rule out the possibility of researching and providing information about collegiate and even high school sports. I believe that the use of performance enhancing drugs by professional athletes effects the use of the same drugs by students in college and high school. This may be a good reason in support of my claim. My boundaries then, are professional, collegiate, and high school athletes. However, I will focus primarily on professional athletes. I would like to stay within these boundaries in order to write an effective research paper that will actually be able to persuade someone to agree with me.

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