Here, you discuss what your interviewees said and how what they said revealed views, convictions, positions, projects, worries, dispositions, acts, beliefs, etc. that were implicitly or explicitly ethical in nature when they talked about their experiences with Covid-19. This section should refer back to the sorts of things raised in the literature review (e.g. how your interviewees undertook projects of self-cultivation in response to the pandemic,

Intro: a) Theme of the paper (how people consider themselves and others through an ethical lens in their responses to Covid-19); b) your focus on particular types of people (medical personnel, essential workers, everyday people, different members of a family, etc.); c) a thesis statement (‘In this paper I argue that…’)

Lit Review: a description of the anthropology of ethics as a broad field of inquiry into how to study ethics anthropologically, within which contributors share specific concerns, but have different views of those concerns (limitations of moral systems approaches – Kant, Durkheim; a preference for virtue ethics; different approaches to virtue ethics (1st person vs poststructuralist); adoptions of Foucault on self-cultivation; 1st, 2nd, 3rd person registers of ethics; the emphasis on the everyday; the importance of small acts of ethical importance, especially with respect to recovery of social relations; the importance of language in ethics, especially as a form of expression connected to social practices and social action, and the possibility of forging a future together; etc.

Field Description: A brief account of who you interviewed, why they seemed like promising sources to learn the kind of thing you wanted to learn, the circumstances of the interviews, etc. The who, what, where, when, and why of your interviews.

Discussion: This is the bulk of the paper. Here, you discuss what your interviewees said and how what they said revealed views, convictions, positions, projects, worries, dispositions, acts, beliefs, etc. that were implicitly or explicitly ethical in nature when they talked about their experiences with Covid-19. This section should refer back to the sorts of things raised in the literature review (e.g. how your interviewees undertook projects of self-cultivation in response to the pandemic, how they described themselves and others in moral or ethical terms, how ethical concerns intertwined with everyday concerns, when interviewed talked in moral – rule-based – terms, and when in ethical terms, etc.) and how ethical issues entwined with, say, economic ones (e.g. maintaining a family business, keeping a job, PPP loans, etc).

Conclusion: Restate your thesis: “In this paper I have shown that…” or “This paper has argued that…” State in one or two sentences what your reader should have learned. (“This paper has demonstrated that…” “This paper has explored how…”) Briefly point to some of the implications that arise from what your paper has shown (“We can see that recovering from the pandemic depends not just on practical, medical solutions, but also on ethical practices to repair frayed social relations’ ‘).

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