Begin your paper with a brief
introductory paragraph that clearly states your goals, thesis, and method.
State what metaethical theory you are defending, the issue in applied ethics
you are addressing, the conclusion(s) you want to defend.
Next, provide a lengthy and
detailed defense of the metaethical theory you defended in the second Discussion.
This will likely reflect what you argued for in your second Discussion thread
and the feedback that you received from the professor and/or classmates who
responded to your thread. Here you can go into much more detail than you could
in the discussion, which was limited to 600 words. If you have changed your
mind since Discussion 2 and wish to defend a different theory, you may do so.
This section of the Capstone would be roughly half of your paper (three to four
pages).
Next, proceed to the applied
ethics issue that you discussed in your third Discussion thread. Here you
should greatly expand upon your argument. Add detail, nuance, and
argumentation, providing a fairly complete and comprehensive application based
on the theory you defend in the first half of the paper. You may illustrate the
application with real-life examples, but please do not fill your paper with
anecdotes. You should anticipate possible objections to your approach to the
issue and respond to them in an objective and informed manner. (For ideas on
how others might object to your approach, a good place to begin would be your
classmate’s reply to your third Discussion thread, but you need not stop there.
Many books and articles have been published on issues in applied ethics, and
these can provide a wealth of possible arguments relevant to every issue.) You
are encouraged to use quotes from sources as a way to support your arguments,
but quotes should not make up more than one and a half pages of your essay.
Your conclusion should
reflect what you have argued in your thesis. It should recap what you have
accomplished and how you have accomplished it.
This paper is not required to
utilize any sources outside of those that were used in the class (the two
textbooks, the videos, and the PointCast presentations), but use of additional
resources is permitted and encouraged. At the minimum the paper should utilize
the resources from the class. All resources used must be listed in the
bibliography and any resources quoted, paraphrased, or alluded to must be
documented via footnotes formatted according to Turabian. Sources such as Wikipedia and online dictionaries do not count as
academic sources and should not be used. Biblical references are encouraged,
but will not count as an academic source.
Remember, your footnotes and
bibliography (if you had one) do not count toward the 2000 word limit. You will
be penalized if you exceed the limit, so please do not.
Your paper must begin with a
title page that includes a paper title, your name, the date, and the course
name and number. The second page of your paper must be a table of contents. The
last page of your paper must be devoted to your bibliography. The paper must
utilize 12 point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with one inch margins. It
must be double-spaced rather than triple-spaced between paragraphs and there
should be only one space after the end of each sentence.
Any documentation in the body
of your paper must be done via footnotes formatted according to Turabian. If
you are not familiar with how to do this, simply look it up online. There are
many websites that explain Turabian formatting. Footnotes should be single-spaced
10 point Times New Roman font.
Your paper must be submitted
as a Microsoft Word document. If you submit it as a .pdf or anything other than
a Microsoft Word document it will not be graded.
Proofread your work before handing it in! Errors of
spelling, grammar, syntax, and punctuation will affect your grade. This is a
university-level writing assignment. Please write accordingly
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