Paragraph of Topic Proposal: I would like to focus my topic around the economics of NASCAR auto racing. NASCAR is a very, very big passion of mine. I have been watching it since I popped out of my mother’s womb. Although I believe NASCAR is an amazing sport, it has recently incurred many losses. NASCAR was a sport throughout the 70s, 80s, 90s, and early 2000s that was growing at an incredible rate. But, due to the recent recession suffered through by many Americans, NASCAR’s revenue has decreased to a negative rate for the past few years. Not only are they operating at a negative rate, they have lost many sponsorships and are close to an almost complete shutdown. NASCAR is a sport, but it is also a complicated business. It is a business that may need to be helped or subsidized in the future to even survive. There have been several policy proposals by NASCAR and many outsiders on how to fix the current problems found in NASCAR. These policy proposals include: the lowering in ticket prices, the decrease in the amount of races, the use of only one network for the broadcast of NASCAR, and etc. I believe that NASCAR Inc. needs to take a combination of these to increase revenue and their fan-base overtime. They have lost many of their core fans (blue-collar workers) because of the inability of these fans to afford merchandise and tickets to races. This is my topic and my policy proposal to fix the current problems found in NASCAR.
This is a good topic. It's always good to write about something you are passionate about. The main thing to avoid when writing this kind of paper is using too much fan jargon. Keep your claims simple and understandable for a general audience.
ReplyDeleteThe other thing is to clearly define the problem--is it just that sales are down? That's the impression I'm getting but make it explicit. Then try to define the optimal solution or solutions to this problem and the various obstacles that stand in the way of each.