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ETHC445 Principles of Ethics

Week 3 Course Project Milestone Proposal

Textbook: review previous chapters

Lesson

Minimum of 1 scholarly source

Introduction

This week, we will begin the course project that will be due in Week 7. Review the full instructions for the Course Project (located in Week 7) before working on this milestone activity.

The project has 3 milestones:

Week 3: Proposal

Week 5: Annotated Bibliography

Week 7: Final Paper

Instructions

This week, create a proposal that references 1 scholarly source for the research project you intend to complete.

Locate and describe a central controversy that requires deft and subtle handling.

Include an introduction and thesis (that would work for the Week 7 Course Project) to the best extent that you know it at this point in time.

A title page is not needed.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

Length: 1-2 pages (not including references page)

1-inch margins

Double spaced

12-point Times New Roman font

References page (minimum of 1 scholarly source)

ETHC445 Principles of Ethics

Week 5 Course Project Milestone Annotated Bibliography

Textbook: review all chapters

Lesson

Minimum of 5 scholarly sources (This includes the source from Week 3 Proposal.)

Instructions

Create a complete annotated bibliography for 5 academic scholarly sources (including your source from Week 3). Include the following:

Introduction and thesis for your paper (to the best extent as you know it at this time)

Publication details

Annotation (a detailed reading of the source)

The annotation section should include the following:

Summarize key points and identify key terms (using quotation marks, and citing a page in parentheses).

Describe the controversies or “problems” raised by the articles.

State whether you agree or disagree and give reasons.

Locate one or two quotations to be used in the final research project.

Evaluate the ways in which this article is important and has helped you focus your understanding.

Example Publication

APA Reference

Mezirow, J. (2003). Transformative learning as discourse. Journal of Transformative Education, 1(1), 58-63.

Annotation Example

In this article, Mezirow (2003) makes a distinction between “instrumental” and “communicative” learning. “Instrumental learning” refers to those processes which measure and gage learning, such as tests, grades, comments, quizzes, attendance records and the like. “Communicative learning,” on the other hand, refers to understanding created over time between individuals in what Mezirow calls “critical-dialectical-discourse,” (p. 59) which is a fancy way of saying, important conversation between 2 or more speakers. Another key idea Mezirow discusses is “transformative learning,” (p. 61) which changes the mind, the heart, the values and beliefs of people so that they may act better in the world. Mezirow argues that “hungry, desperate, homeless, sick, destitute, and intimidated people obviously cannot participate fully and freely in discourse” (p. 59). On the one hand, he is right: there are some people who cannot fully engage because their crisis is so long and deep, they are prevented. But, I don’t think Mezirow should make the blanket assumption that everyone in unfortunate circumstances is incapable of entering the discourse meaningfully. One thing is certain: if we gave as much attention to the non-instrumental forms of intelligence–like goodness, compassion, forgiveness, wonder, self-motivation, creativity, humor, love, and other non-measured forms of intelligence in our school curriculums, we’d see better people, actors in the world, and interested investigators than we currently have graduating high school.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

Length: 1-2 paragraphs per annotation

1-inch margins

Double spaced

12-point Times New Roman font

Title page

ETHC445 Principles of Ethics

Week 7 Course Project Milestone Final Paper

Minimum of 5 scholarly sources (This includes the sources from the annotated bibliography. Additional sources may be included as appropriate.)

Instructions

This week you will submit your final paper.

The paper should include the following:

Create your own 4-6 paragraph “dilemma” based on the controversial topic you chose in Week 3.

Summarize the dilemma.

Identify the key points of the dilemma.

Define the key terms associated with the dilemma.

Analyze the conflicts or controversies involved in the dilemma.

Provide an original point of view relative to the dilemma and the issue it signals.

Apply Kant’s Categorical Imperative to the dilemma.

Apply one other method you have encountered in lecture material and the readings.

State which of the two methods you selected you prefer and why.

Use the 5 articles from your annotated bibliography. (Additional academic scholarly research from the past 5 years can be included as well.)

Include a reference page at the end of your paper in APA format that includes your bibliography with the annotations removed and any other sources used in your final paper.

Paragraphs

Paragraphs are composed around topics, which naturally and organically emerge from a complex, focused, and sophisticated thesis.

Each paragraph explores one topic and one topic only.

Topics directly relate to the thesis and are not theses in and of themselves.

The paragraph completely and fully develops and explains the topic and provides details, examples, illustrations, and quotations from research as well as from the primary texts.

Topics and paragraphs rise above commonplace thinking and summary.

Quoted material is used powerfully to support analytical points (and not as padding).

There is a graceful transition to the next paragraph.

The ideas explored are significant, substantive, and instructive.

Ideas/topics support the overarching thesis so that the paper is a unified whole, and not a concatenation of appended mini-essays.

Grammar/Mechanics/Style

Grammar refers to the correct usage of Standard American English.

Mechanics refers to idiomatic conventions (capitalization of proper nouns, spelling, and punctuation).

Style refers to persuasiveness, sophistication, wit, and transcendent quality.

Sentences should be varied in length and complexity without loss of clarity or precision of meaning.

Style makes a paper a pleasure to read.

Writing Requirements (APA format)

Length: 8-10 pages (not including title page or references page)

1-inch margins

Double spaced

12-point Times New Roman font

Title page

References page (minimum of 5 scholarly resources – remove annotations; format hanging indents)

Pagination (upper right of the page)