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Your research paper will be written in MLA format, double-spaced, in 12-point font (preferably times New Roman, Courier, or Calibri). You will write five full pages and use five qualifying sources, all of which must be introduced, cited properly, and included in a Works Cited page which will not count toward your five-page minimum. Your first task will be to find an appropriate topic for your research paper, something connecting with ethics. We’ll have a discussion about this next week where you can field ideas, but
here’s a place to start. Try thinking of the ways ethics impact our daily lives. After you’ve narrowed it to a topic, try thinking in terms of questions about that topic. One of the best ways to approach critical thinking tasks is to think in terms of “clean” questions. By “clean,” I mean the kind of question that doesn’t smuggle assumptions in its wording. For example, let’s stick with workplace automation as our topic and specifically automation in the manufacturing industry. As we form our research questions, let’s try to keep them fact-based. So, for instance, asking the question“How can we slow down job loss in manufacturing due to automation?” smuggles in the assumption that we should slow down job loss. In other words, it offers an answer to a moral/economic question in its wording. And perhaps the writer will, in fact, end up making a moral/economic argument in the end, but posing the question this way prejudices the results we’ll get from our research. Instead, let’s start with a fact-based question such as “Which sectors of the manufacturing industry are losing human jobs due to automation?” We might also add something like “What are the economic impacts, positive and
negative, to automation in the manufacturing industry?” Another way to approach your research is via a problem/solution model. As you think about your topic, try writing down some problems that arise or risks that present themselves. Imagine, for example, that your topic is “autonomous warfighting machines.” That is, machines such as robots and drones do not require humans to make decisions when the machine selects and destroys a target. Some problems immediately present themselves here. “Will autonomous battlefield technologies be hackable by the enemy?” “Will autonomous warfighting robots make the right choices? Will they make
better choices than humans make?” You get the picture, right? Remember as you draft your research paper that it needs to present an argument, encapsulated in a thesis. A thesis is a statement, not a question, and it presents a point of view rather than simply
gesturing broadly at an existing debate. The thesis isn’t just a straightforward statement of the author’s claim; it is also a kind of roadmap to the argument(s) that will follow. It can be nuanced, but it shouldn’t be wishy-washy. In the course of your research, you should be gathering sources that reflect multiple positions on your topic. Those you end up siding with, you will use to bolster your own arguments. But equally valuable are solid counter-arguments from the other side. You can demonstrate your willingness to keep an open mind by showing you have read the other side’s arguments, and you can show scholarly rigor by arguing those sources down.
For example, let’s say you’re doing your research into “childcare robots.” You might go into the task with your mind already made up. You may think that letting robots care for children is a horrifying idea. But let’s say you find a really well-argued article that claims children (and parents) can greatly benefit from robotic “toys” that monitor children part-time. Assuming this argument does not sway you to the other side, you might include the source in your paper, but then refute its claims using other research. This is called refutation, and it’s something every trial lawyer is expected to take great care in mastering.
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