Requirements:
A minimum of three (3) complete pages, properly formatted, which is approximately 1,000 effective words
ONE AND ONLY ONE SECONDARY SOURCE, CHOSEN FROM Two News Periodical Choices for Ethical Argument Essay.
Include a separate Works Cited page (does not count in page count)
MLA Format: double-spaced paragraphs; 12-point Times New Roman font
Include basic MLA in-text citation: signal phrases, quotation marks, parenthetical citation
Single space header on left side:
Student name
English 1010
Ethical Argument
Creative, Individual Title (Centered)
Essay Topic/Purpose:
Craft an ethical argument that addresses a socially-relevant contemporary issue that is happening within your chosen career field/field of study from Field of Study Summary. Your argument claims, reasoning, and examples must involve principles and/or consequences as they relate to the issue in your field. Frame your argument as being relevant today by using one and only one newspaper/magazine periodical from one of these two news periodicals:
1. AP News: https://apnews.com or: 2. Al Jazeera News: https://www.aljazeera.com
Your source article must address the ethical topic as it is happening in your field. However, the type of article can be informative (a report), argumentative (a journalist’s own view of the topic based their research/evidence, or on an opinion editorial/op-ed by an expert on the topic).
Support your position by using evidence from the source and, perhaps, by addressing any of the author’s position in relationship to your own arguments. In other words, your argument is the thesis and topic sentences, and you are to use the source author’s arguments as support of your own views or to provide support for your addressing the counterargument. It should go without stating, but you should use your source to introduce the issue and frame your own arguments in the opening paragraph.
Critical Thinking on Essay Topic (Brainstorm/pre-writing activities):
To help choose your socially relevant issue, you may brainstorm ideas based on the following questions:
What kinds of ethical issues are happening right now? In the last five years? That you believe are the future?
Explore the two websites and their different categories:
Headlines/front pages
Subject matter: the AP News has a horizontal bar that breaks down the news by subject matter, such as Politics, Business, Science, Tech(nology), and more. Look in the categories that your Field of Study relates to.
Globally: Al Jazeera’s front page focuses on global stories, but they also have the same kind of horizontal navigation bar at the top of the front page to help you find subject matters.
To address the larger ethical problem as it relates to your field of study:
What does this ethical issue have to do with my major/discipline?
Where do I see the content in my field echoing the content in this issue?
For instance, what kinds of concerns would a nurse at a hospital have with immigration issues regarding providing care? Or: how does a criminal justice major see mental health issues entering into their possible future job as a lawyer, legislator, United Nations employee, or a law officers (of course, the perspective is different for each)?
