Prewriting Essay 3

The topic I am considering doing my Rogerian argument on is the controversy of the BYU basketball player getting kicked off the team right before the NCAA basketball tournament. Brandon Davies, who was one of BYU's most promising players was kicked off the team for having premarital sex with a girl at the age of 19. According to the BYU honor code, and being that it is a very catholic school,  they forbid drinking or sex while attending the University or before marriage. I find this topic interesting because I am a big college basketball fan and I have a lot of opinions on the situation. I find it easy to say how they have the right to follow school policy if their rules are broken and that their school board has the power to make the decision that they choose. At the same time, I would bring up the fact that he was a very promising athlete and to ruin a boys possible athletic future career is not a fair punishment. Also, he showed a huge amount of remorse after his actions, which shows that he is taking responsibility as a man for what he has done. By bringing up all of these points and views, I think I will be able to write a successful Rogerian argument on why he should be allowed to continue playing, especially when their school has a chance to win a National Title. The only difficulty I see in writing this argument, is that I will have to find a scholarly and legitimate source on the topic and not just a bunch of opinions that other people have written. Scholarly sources that I am going to try and find are articles written by the Dean of the school, or even professors at the school that have been published in worthy news sources. If this topic gets too difficult to find a legitimate source, I will have to brainstorm and try to find another topic.