Discussion Post: Ethics
• Write your own personal code of ethics.
Think about what you value, how you want yourself to be seen by others, and how you want to be treated by others as well as how you want to treat others.
• Find a news article (from within the past two years) detailing an ethical situation.
Analyze the scenario using your own set of personal values. Identify all of the stakeholders in the scenario, all of the actions that were taken, and all of the alternative actions that could have been taken. State your reactions to the actions and decisions of the people in the scenario based upon your personal ethical framework. You are not graded upon your values, but upon how well you can state them to argue a position related to the scenario.
• Find the online ethics statement for a professional organization in your field. For example, I would visit, National Council of Teachers of English, and use their ethics statement.
Analyze the scenario using the Code of Ethics of the professional society you found. State the specific principles from the code that apply to the scenario and what the right course of actions are based upon that code.
The response should include a reference list. One-inch margins, Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space and APA style of writing and citations.