Annotation #6

School Steroid Use Silent, Rampant

This article is about teens using steroids in the state of Texas. They are not only using it for sports but for impressing their girlfriends or impressing classmates. When coaches to find out about steroid use they don't really confront them. They don't even tell their parents about it. Its almost like they don't care. Why would they sit a key player when they need that player. This article has some what of a positive effect of steroid use. But what there really saying is that teenagers are doing a lot of other bad stuff that is worse then steroids.

Annotation #5

Users only see the big picture

This Article talked about Remy a fake name that told a story about a person that took steroids not for sports. He took the steroids for personal acheivements, and for self esteem. He was also going to take them because he was going to enter a body lifting contest. It also went over a lot of side effects of anabolic steroids. Like acne, male baldness, females developing male characteristics, liver disease, and heart disease.

I. Introduction
A. Attention-getter
1. Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGuire, all have something in common. Yeah they are all baseball superstars that have broken many records. But in 2005 Bonds, Sosa, and McGuire were all acused of using steroids. B. Preview main points
1. Many record holders have been acused of usung steroids while breaking that record. _______________________________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________________________________(Transition sentence goes here) C. Thesis statement
1. _______________________________________________________________________ (you may also put the thesis before the preview if you find it to be a better flow for your paper)
II. Body
A. Body paragraph #1 (first proof of your thesis statement)
1. Topic sentence
a. _____________________________________________________________________
2. Supporting details (proof of topic sentence; be specific with details and have enough information)
a. ______________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________
d. ______________________________________________________________________
e. ______________________________________________________________________
f. ______________________________________________________________________
B. Body paragraph #1 (second proof of your thesis statement)
1. Topic sentence
a. _____________________________________________________________________
2. Supporting details (proof of topic sentence; be specific with details and have enough information)
a. ______________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________
d. ______________________________________________________________________
e. ______________________________________________________________________
f. ______________________________________________________________________

C. Body paragraph #1 (third proof of your thesis statement)
1. Topic sentence
a. _____________________________________________________________________
2. Supporting details (proof of topic sentence; be specific with details and have enough information)
a. ______________________________________________________________________
b. ______________________________________________________________________
c. ______________________________________________________________________
d. ______________________________________________________________________
e. ______________________________________________________________________
f. ______________________________________________________________________
III. Conclusion
A. Re-state thesis
1. ________________________________________(Transition sentence goes here) B. Review main points
1. _______________________________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________________________________(Transition sentence goes here) C. Attention-"goer" (sometimes called the "clincher")
1. _______________________________________________________________________





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Annotation #4

Players admit steroids change the game

This article talked about conspersy that poeple with records was on steroids while acheiving them. They took some surveys and asked the public if they should be stripped of their records because of the steroid use. Almost 80% said they should be stripped or be notted about the steroid use. People beleive that they set the records because of steroids. But no one can tell of they used steroids or not.

Annotation #3

Juiced

This article talked about the cyclist Floyd Landis wining the Tour de France and then being tested positive for steroids. He still won the race. This article also talked about kids taking steroids just to get bigger. Some kids are not even taking steroids for sports. Thier just taking it to look bigger and stronger. Alexander G, said that there are other ways of looking better then taking steroids. Like eating habits, and even working out harder.

Annotation #2

Toxic Strngth

This article talked about a short story of a young man almost killing himself because of steroids. He was depressed from the drug and didn't know what to do. They found him on the edge of a high way looking down about to jump. Other then that the article talked about how steroids can make you so much bigger. You can gain up to two pounds of muscle mass a week.

Annotation #1

Steroids- Still fuel Win-At-Any-Cost Attitude

This article talked about some of the hisrty of steroids. Since about 10 years ago when the last survey was taken, steroid use has dropped. Maybe beacuse its harder to detect steroids in athletes or maybe thier just not doing it any more. Athletes are finding ways to almost hide the drug in their system. But the NCAA has came up with a new machine that tests even the slightest amount of steroids in a human body. It can also trace steroid use back to at least two months ago.