Assignment
Purpose
To explain what research you have done thus far, where you expect to go next and what sources you plan on using.
Parts
Statement
Here, you simply review what research you have done (the sorts or searches you've done, what sorts of sources you've looked at, what you're reading, etc.) and what you anticipate doing next (start writing, continue research, etc.).
Bibliography
You need to include a bibliography with at least 3 different philosophical references.
About the references:
Your sources for all segments of the final paper project must be drawn from academic philosophy sources like journals, anthologies, and books.
Important: no encyclopedia entries will not count towards your references. You need to use original research, rather than summaries of others' work. For the same reason, textbooks or dictionaries also will not count towards your references.
Purthermore, writings in science journals and popular sources (magazines, newspapers, etc.) will not count towards your references, or websites about philosophy (unless you are accessing a philosophy article from a philosophy journal's website).
If you are working from journals and if the journal has "philosophy" or "ethics" in the title or subtitle, that is generally a good sign that it is philosophy (there are exceptions to this like The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. This is an excellent science journal). If you have questions, let me know.
You need to rely on well-developed philosophical arguments. For this reason, all sources must be a minimum of 5 pages long. References shorter than this will not count towards your total.
To ensure that you have a diversity of sources, no more than 1 source can from any particular anthology or issue of a journal(having sources from different issues of the same journal is acceptable).
Lastly, for the update, no readings from the course will count towards your total references.
About the summary:
In addition to the reference, you need to summarize the main points of the reference.
This should be a somewhat long paragraph (at least 350 words. Don't worry about including a word count).
Both the summary and relevance should be straightforward: The reference discusses x, y, and z. It is relevant for the following reason. It is related to the other sources of the paper in the following way.
Explanation
Conclude the update by explaining how you anticipate using your sources in the final paper. This includes clearly explaining:
What sources will be used as background and what sources will be used as the core philosophical positions you will discuss;
How the sources fit together (specifically how you expect to compare their arguments).
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
You should have the summary of the reference immediately following the bibliographic information for that reference.
Assuming that the source you included in your proposal was acceptable and it works with your other sources, then including it in the update (along with a summary that meets the criteria described above) is encouraged.
In putting your sources together, be sure that the sources deal with the same ethical issue in ways that can be compared and contrasted straight-forwardly.
This is because almost all of the final paper will be devoted to explaining the writings of philosophers and then developing your own position with respect to those writings. If the philosophers go in different directions, this will make writing the paper more difficult.
For example: if all your sources discuss genetic engineering, but one emphasizes questions about dignity and another the economic dimensions, finding a way to contrast them will be very hard.
I highly recommend aiming at presenting two contrasting philosophical positions, given the word limit on the Final Paper.
Just focusing on one position doesn't work given the structure of the final paper. More than 2 is possible, but risky because you are expected to thoroughly explain the arguments for each position.
I leave up to you how exactly you distribute your sources, but I recommend the following approach: having one source on each side of the issue and another providing philosophical background
Other approaches would include: you might have two from one side and one for another or having two very different positions and then the last source representing something in-between.
Lastly, except for the conclusion the final paper must be all new research, so do not fall back on the philosophical writings covered in the course (Fukuyama, Bostrom and Janicaud). You should not even mention their assigned writings in the final paper.
Comments:
a) you can use other writings from Bostrom if they were not assigned to the course (he has written a lot);
b) in the conclusion you will be expected to discuss one of the last four philosophers we read (Anderson, Harding, Feyerabend, Dewey). More will be said about this when we get to the draft.
References
There will be no mandatory citation format, but whatever format you use (APA, MLA, Chicago) must be:
Consistent across the update;
The bibliography must be informative (author, year of publication, title, publisher, journal, pages if a journal, etc.)
APA style for your citations and bibliography works well and a good overview can be found at:
Aside: be sure to include the date of publication in addition to date accessed for online sources.
Also, I am only concerned about citations and bibliography. Other aspects of APA formatting, like page layout, are not a big deal.
Attachment:- Proposal.rar