ETHC445N – Principles of Ethics

Required ResourcesRead/review the following resources for this activity:

• Minimum of 5 scholarly sources (This includes the sources from the annotated bibliography. Additional sources may be included as appropriate.)
• Attached documents below of completed assignments from weeks 3 (Proposal) and 5 (Annotated Bibliography)

InstructionsThis 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 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)
• In-text citations correspond to full reference on a reference page
• NO PLAGIARISM

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