Let Steroids into the Hall of Fame

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1. What is the writer's general subject?
Steroid use by baseball hall of fame stars.
2. What is the writer's main point?
To allow steroid use into major league baseball.
3. What are the writer's key supporting points?
If everybody used drugs, it would be an even playing field.
4. Does the writer seem to have a particular purpose in mind?
To convince people to allow steroid use into major league sports.
5. What kind of audience is the writer addressing?
The author seems to be addressing baseball fans.
6. What are the writer's assumptions about audience? About subject?
He is assuming that his audience cares about sports. He is assuming that steroids only enhance the game.
7. Are the writer's ideas consistent with your own?
None of us agreed with what the writer was saying.
8. Does the writer reveal any biases?
He is biased in that he thinks steroids are beneficial to the game.
9. Do you have any knowledge that challenges the writer's ideas?
Steroids are commonly talked about with a negative connotation because they are widely known to have bad side-effects on the body.
10. Is any information missing?
The author is missing a counterargument. Making the piece feel very one-sided.
11. Are any sequential or logical links missing?
The author brings up children and the control of their usage of steroids, it is a random thought that has no substance outside of that statement.
12. Can you identify themes or ideas that also appear in other works you have read?
When an author writes about a topic that they don't have a solid counter-argument for, they are more likely to avoid the proper ways of writing, like counterarguments and debunking them.
13. Can you identify parallel's with your own experience?
None of us have had any experiences with steroids of our own accord.