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QUESTION: "Good and Evil Think Piece" This think piece is your response to your friend who asks you about "ethics

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QUESTION:

"Good and Evil Think Piece"

This think piece is your response to your friend who asks you about "ethics."

 

Please read the full details for this writing prompt on the "start here" page. 

 

Begin your think piece:  "Ethics has to do with critical thinking and....."

 

No outside sources are allowed on any writing in this homework, please.  Any work that uses an outside source for any portion or is plagiarized for any portion will receive a zero grade.

 

 

     THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION IS IN CHAPTER 2, GOOD AND EVIL  pages. 51-75, 99-121

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TITLE OF THE BOOK: The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature  

Author: Louis P. Pojman and Lewis Vaughn, editors  

Publisher: Oxford University Press  

Edition information: Sixth Edition  

ISBN: 9780190607845 

 

Think pieces must be written in academic language.  Proper grammar, spelling, capitalization and punctuation must be used.  No "texting" language should be used in academic work. 

 

Please write in complete sentences.  The think piece should usually be one substantial paragraph with a clear and direct response to the question in the writing prompt.  This response should come very early in the think piece and can often be in the very first sentence.

 

The think piece is graded by using these four elements:

 

Rhetorical Sensitivity: This element has to do with the directness of the response, and if the question in the writing prompt is directly answered.

 

Content: This element involves the substance of the work, and if the content of the work provides sufficient evidence to answer the prompt.

 

Clarity: This element involves organization and structure, as well as the development of ideas. 

 

Mechanics: This element involves proper spelling, punctuation, grammar and sentence/paragraph construction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                HOW TO START WRITING

A think piece should be about 1-1.5 pages (400-550 words) long. Yes, length does matter, but please do not be repetitive. 

You need to write a clear and fully developed think piece – this is not a mini-research paper, so you should provide your own ideas and perhaps examples from the text to answer the writing prompt.

The message heading is very important, so that I can easily detect the assignment you are completing in the post.  If the heading is missing or different, it will be difficult for me to identify the student and assignment and most importantly, I need to give you credit for completing the assignment!  Please include the message heading "Good and Evil Think Piece" and post it in the appropriate forum.

 

Here is your writing prompt:

You visit your friend’s house who has invited you for dinner and a movie.  You arrive early and she is not home, and being the diligent student that you are, you pull out the text The Moral Life and begin reading as you wait outside the front door.  When your friend arrives, she asks what you are reading.  “My textbook for my ethics course…” you begin.  “Ethics?!?!” she exclaims.  “What can you learn about ethics in a class?  I know good from bad, right from wrong, good from evil.  No textbook can teach me otherwise!” 

You begin to respond, “Ethics has to do with critical thinking and…..”

Your response to your friend is your think piece for this unit. (Begin with this sentence and complete the think piece)

If you quote the book (only very short quotes – like one or two short sentences at the most), please be sure to cite it --- this is fine: “Melville is cool,” (pg. 55, TML). – note: not an actual quote!

PLEASE NOTE THAT NO OUTSIDE SOURCES ARE TO BE USED ON ANY WRITING ASSIGNMENT IN THIS HOMEWORK. 

 Yes, spelling and grammar matter!  This is the “mechanics” area of my grading rubric.