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Units 3 and 4: Ethical Evaluation of a Corporation

     What does it take for you not to support a business?

Topic choice to Google Doc (link on D2L) due 3/12

Movie response to The Corporation (watched on your own time) due 3/10

Annotated Bibliography due 3/24

First Rough Draft (due to dropbox) 4/9

Draft to be graded due by class time 4/7

In this unit, you will choose a Fortune 500 company for ethical evaluation. You will develop criteria for a “good” or “ethical” company, and perform extensive research on a chosen company in order to evaluate its ethics. You will consider a range of issues, such as: sustainability, environmental impact, treatment of employees/labor, corporate policy, newsworthy controversies, etc. Write from the perspective of a consumer. Is this company an ethical company? Is it a good business? Consider what it would take for a company to earn or lose your loyalty.

Annotated Bibliography Assignment

For this unit, you are asked to rely on a much larger amount of research (5 sources). To aide you in bringing this amount of research into your work, you are asked to complete an annotated bibliography of your sources. This document will allow you to better assess your source material and more neatly finesse your research into your final paper.   Your bibliography should consist of five sources, and is due 10/7, before Fall Break. This means that you must choose your topic before this date so that you can complete the work by this date.

From the OWL at Purdue University:

A bibliography is a list of sources (books, journals, websites, periodicals, etc.) one has used for researching a topic. An annotation is a summary and/or evaluation. Therefore, an annotated bibliography includes a summary and/or evaluation of each of the sources. Depending on your project or the assignment, your annotations may do one or more of the following:

Summarize: Some annotations merely summarize the source. What are the main arguments? What is the point of this book or article? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this article/book is about, what would you say? The length of your annotations will determine how detailed your summary is.

Assess: After summarizing a source, it may be helpful to evaluate it. Is it a useful source? How does it compare with other sources in your bibliography? Is the information reliable? Is this source biased or objective? What is the goal of this source?

Reflect: Once you've summarized and assessed a source, you need to ask how it fits into your research. Was this source helpful to you? How does it help you shape your argument? How can you use this source in your research project? Has it changed how you think about your topic?

What does an annotated bibliography include?

The bibliographic information: Generally, though, the bibliographic information of the source (the title, author, publisher, date, etc.) is written in either MLA or APA format.

The annotations: The annotations for each source are written in paragraph form. The lengths of the annotations can vary significantly from a couple of sentences to a couple of pages. The length will depend on the purpose. If you're just writing summaries of your sources, the annotations may not be very long. However, if you are writing an extensive analysis of each source, you'll need more space.

You can focus your annotations for your own needs. A few sentences of general summary followed by several sentences of how you can fit the work into your larger paper or project can serve you well when you go to draft.

Each annotation written in paragraph format and format consistent with the indentations of a typical works cited page (everything is indented a half-inch excepting the first line of the bibliographic entry).