The rule book for this assignment is attached in PDF form. My presentation and PDF are also attached, which is what this essay must be about.
About 6 to 9 Pages Double Spaced
This
paper should be on the same topic, and doing much of the same analysis, as your
individual case analysis presentation. As with your first case study analysis
papers, I am wanting you to take that work, and what you gained from the class
discussion following your presentation and my feedback, and write a more formal
(i.e. with citations and proper grammar, etc.) academic paper exploring the
ethical issues involved in your case study.
Part
of your paper should explain what your case is about, though you want to make
sure that you are only explaining relevant information and not just summarizing
everything you learned when doing your research. You should use your
research to expand upon what the case says, but make sure you cite all of your
sources, and make sure your sources are reliable and only concern the facts of
the case, not moral positions about it or the moral thinkers you are
using. The rest of your paper should analyze why the case presents a moral
problem and explore how we may reason our way through it. You should draw on at
least two of the moral texts we’ve read, and shouldn’t use any outside sources
to help you with those moral thinkers. To do that adequately requires that you
present the ideas of the thinkers you are using. Ideally, you would reach some
definitive conclusions from this reasoning: either that one party or position
is right and another is wrong, or that the conflict arose from a fundamental
misunderstanding of interested parties’ moral responsibilities, or that the
moral conflict is only superficial, or that there is a moral middle ground that
meets everyone’s responsibilities, etc.
As an
academic paper, you should have a clear thesis (probably at the end of your
introduction), and a logical argumentative structure. You should have a
citation for any idea that doesn’t either originate in your head, come from
general knowledge, or come directly from the description of the case
study. That includes citations of the moral thinkers you are using in your
analysis and for any research you did you did about the case. That having
been said, you should restrict your research to the facts of the case, and just
draw from the philosophers we’ve read.
You
will also have gotten feedback from me about your presentations before your
paper is due; your papers should correct any problems I pointed out in my
feedback.
