PHIL434 Week 8 Term Paper

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PHIL434 Week 8 Term Paper Final Template

Week 8 Term Paper Final Draft

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Week 4 Term Paper Final Draft

Write your introduction. Tell us what the paper is about. Provide a solid paragraph.

According to APA 7 rules, you do not need a subtitle for the introduction as it’s obvious your first paragraph is an introduction.

Technical Aspects

This section should cover the technical aspects of your topic. For example, the technical aspects of abortion would cover what an abortion is and how an abortion is done. Be sure to include in text citations and sources. This section should be technical and should rely heavily on research.

Public Policy

This section is more historical in nature. Describes current and proposed changes in public policy/law. This section also relies heavily on research because it deals with specific laws and public policy surrounding your topic.

Arguments

Include a summary of the arguments in favor of and opposed to specific interventions, techniques, or products and a discussion of underlying ethical principles (you must use one of the 6 accepted ethical theories in this part – Kantian Ethics, Care Ethics, Virtue Ethics, Act Utilitarianism, Rule Utilitarianism [not just plain utilitarianism – that is wrong] or Social Contract [one of the 3 versions – Hobbes, Rousseau or Rawls]. Discuss the public policy with two additional argumentative paragraphs- one discussing the in favor of and one paragraph discussing the opposing argument.

Pro Arguments

This section includes a summary of the arguments in favor of specific interventions, techniques, or products involved in our topic and a discussion of underlying ethical principles. Use the textbook and class material to provide the connection to underlying ethical principles.

Tying these arguments into the ethical perspectives covered in Week 1 of the course is very important.

Con Arguments

This section includes a summary of the arguments in favor of specific interventions, techniques, or products involved in our topic and a discussion of underlying ethical principles.

Use the textbook and class material to provide the connection to underlying ethical principles.

Tying these arguments into the ethical perspectives covered in Week 1 of the course is very important.

Conclusion

This section is where you express your personal opinion regarding the importance of the topic and the strength of the pro and con arguments. This is where your own thoughts reign supreme. Where do you stand after conducting research on the topic? Did your opinions change over the course of the research? While you don’t necessarily need to refer to research here, supporting your opinion with credible sources (proving you have made an informed opinion) is best. Remember that your final paper must be 4-6 pages long.

 

 

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References

Pence, G. (2021). Medical ethics: Accounts of ground-breaking cases (9th ed.). McGraw Hill

Education.

I have provided the proper formatting for the textbook. List at least three solid sources for your paper. All sources should have been published with the past five years. At least one reference must be a peer-reviewed article from a professional journal. All sources must be credible and academic (I am available if you want to ask about any source). Put the references in

APA 7 format.

If you use more than one video from the class, then you must distinguish between in your paper. Put the sources in alphabetical order (as I have here) and use n.d.-a, n.d.-b, etc. in citations. If you only use one video, only use n.d. (not n.d.-a, n.d.-b, etc.).

If Dr. Tosh is not teaching your class, the citations and references for the videos would use your instructor’s name and not Dr. Tosh’s name.

APA 7 is different from APA 6. Here is a website covering some key differences:

https://www.scribbr.com/apa-style/apa-seventh-edition-changes/. With regard to references, these are the most common mistakes I see:

- You made errors in capitalization of titles in your references. In APA, standard capitalization rules are followed everywhere but in titles of articles in references. In those, only capitalize the first word of the title, the first word after a colon in the title, and proper nouns. You also made errors in italicization. Italicize the title of the article (unless it is followed by journal information -- then italicize journal title and volume).

- City/state of publisher not listed in references in APA 7.

https://www.scribbr.com/apa-style/apa-seventh-edition-changes/

 

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- Replace "Retrieved...from" with website title in APA 7. Website title follows article title.

Do not have both website title and "Retrieved...from."

- When you reference an article from a website and have no author, the reference follows this order: Article title in italics. (date). Website Title. Website URL. Use the article title

(not the website title) in your citations.

Be sure to delete all this and other informational material included here from the template before you turn it in. Feel free to contact me with any questions you have.