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Paper #2

A Professional Code of Conduct

This paper will include a set of five to ten principles that, combined together, provide a code of conduct for YOU in the role YOU plan to fulfill in your professional life.  You may focus on a code of conduct as the professional you will be or you may address a code of conduct you will share with your staff or co-workers in your professional role, i.e. owning a retail company, managing a veterinary clinic, etc.  You should begin by researching codes of conduct that exist for people in your position, either by personally inquiring or by doing online research.  You may use some of these in your code of conduct but you must add your own to put your stamp on it. The sources you find should be referenced appropriately. Please list this set of codes that you create for yourself in the introduction or just after the introduction so that they are easily identified.

Once you have established the codes of conduct, you must discuss what ethical theory (or theories) apply or reject each code. This should be the main focus of the paper. You must discuss at least 3 separate ethical theories.

Within the paper, you may also discuss the reasons for your code of conduct choices indicating the overall intent of your code in its entirety.

THE MAIN POINT OF THE PAPER IS TO APPLY ETHICAL THEORY. PLEASE USE RUBRIC AS YOU WRITE YOUR PAPER FOR POINT ALLOCATIONS. YOU MUST APPLY 3 ETHICAL THEORIES TO THE CODE OF CONDUCT YOU ESTABLISH. 

This means thoroughly defining each theory with at least 2 separate, credible sources and then step by step explaining how the issue applies or rejects an ethical theory.

Use Paper #2 Worksheet (due FRI 3/27) to help organize. This paper length and word count shall including the actual Code of Conduct.  Paper #2 is due on 5/3 by 11:59 pm in the Paper Drop Box. NO LATE PAPERS ACCEPTED!

Minimum 6 philosophical sources on Ethical Theory NOT the “topic” (DO NOT use Pp slides, videos or the Open Web). Only use the Shafer-Landau textbook and the CPP online library database with keyword search ex: "Ethical Egoism" or "Kantian Ethics" etc.

TEXTBOOK:  The Fundamentals of Ethics(third edition) by Russ Shafer-Landau