Ali Bizzul identified three major reasons to support her interpretive claim that gaining weight hurts football players more than it helps:

Reason 1: Heat-related injuries associated with the use of diet supplements

Reason 2: Long-term health problems associated with obesity

Reason 3: Decrease in athletic performance

Ali used each of these reasons as the basis for a general statement in her draft. Here is her preliminary list of evidence to support her second reason, the long-term health problems associated with obesity:

The extra weight gained for football can complicate the health of ex-athletes:

— metabolic syndrome (Miller et al.)

— joint damage/arthritis (Groeschen)

— heart disease (Longman)

— diabetes (Longman)

As she drafted her essay, Ali used her lists of evidence to remind herself of sources she might turn to while making her points.