"Should college athletes be paid to play?"

Order Description The topic I chose to write on is, "Should college athletes be paid to play?" This paper should focus on the legal issues involved and not a paper that focuses whether we should pay athletes. Below is the paper guidelines. It is important to follow these guidelines. Thank You Research Paper Guidelines Topic and Cases: This is a legal issues in sport management class. I have left it up to you to choose a topic of interest. You need to make sure you have chosen a topic that is neither too broad (e.g., Drugs and Sports) nor too narrow (e.g., a topic with no case law). You need to have researched your topic before you decide upon it. It will be difficult for you to write a paper on a sport law topic for which you cannot find any cases. You can find case law pertaining to a topic from a variety of sources: • Your textbook cites numerous cases. These case citations are included in the book and can be used to pull the cases themselves off of LexisNexis. You will not, however, be able to pick a topic your book covers and only use those cases cited in the chapter. This paper requires that you do some actual research. • You can search on the LexisNexis database by subject using keywords. It takes a bit of practice, but it can be done. • You may use the Troy Libraries homepage to search in a variety of databases for law journal articles on a particular topic, such as drug testing. Then, while reading those articles for your topic, you will read about cited cases in those articles. You will need to use journal articles in your paper. Format: • You are expected to produce your papers with Microsoft Word, using 12-point Times New Roman font and double-spacing, except on your References page. • You are expected to use APA 6th edition formatting throughout your paper. If you are not familiar with this formatting, you need to either purchase an APA manual (Amazon is a good, cheap place), check out a manual from a library, or use a variety of online resources dedicated to APA formatting: o https://www.apastyle.org/ (look at the Tutorials here) o https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ o https://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/index.aspx?doc_id=796 o https://www.liu.edu/CWIS/CWP/library/workshop/citapa.htm • The formatting must be throughout the paper, including References. You will lose points for failing to use proper APA formatting. • Your paper needs to be a minimum of 6 pages and a maximum of 8 pages. The Title Page and References do not count in this number. Make sure you are not filling your paper with “fluff” just to get the pages required. Outline: The basic outline of your paper should be as follows: 1. Title Page a. Tell me your title, class, and date. 2. Introduction a. Introduce the subject of your paper. It may help to mention recent developments in the issue/subject. b. The Introduction should feed into your next section. 3. Statement of Problem/Issue a. Tell me why this is an important issue. b. Have other studied this before? If so, why is it important to do further research? If not, how is the issue important?! 4. Literature Review a. This will be the bulk of your paper. b. You are reviewing and summarizing the literature/cases on your given topic. c. Talk about other research in this area. What have other scholars found? 5. Discussion a. This is where your opinion starts to come into play. Don’t just tell me that Title IX needs to be done away with, tell me why that is a reasoned stance and support it with research. 6. Conclusion a. The ending to your paper. Don’t overlook this. It needs to tie everything together. 7. References a. Need to be in APA format b. You must include at least 2 peer-reviewed sources (e.g., journal articles), a sufficient number of cases (at least 2) and at least 4 other sources (cases, other articles, books, etc.). DO NOT plan on writing most of your paper off of website information or Sports Illustrated articles. c. WIKIPEDIA IS NOT A SOURCE!!! d. As this is a sport law course, you need to have a substantial part of your reference list be cases you have researched and pulled off of Lexis-Nexis e. Your book cannot count toward your source total, but you can use it as a source. f. Make sure to follow proper formatting! i. EXAMPLE: Baker, T. A., Connaughton, D. P., Zhang, J. J., & Spengler, J. O. (2007). Perceived risk of terrorism and related risk management practices of NCAA Division IA football stadium managers. Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport, 13(2), 145-179. Grading: This is really where you get the least amount of information. Grading is a tricky thing. I can tell you that you will lose points for failing to follow proper formatting guidelines. You will also lose points for spelling and/or grammatical errors. You have spell-check, so there are no excuses for these things.