I need a 7 page essay, about technology and its effects due on 1/11/2013

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Suggestions  to  Improve  Your  Paper/Presentation  Score  

Some  Approaches:  

The  following  approaches  might  be  useful  for  developing  your  topic.    This  does  not  mean  that  all  of  this   information  should  be  in  your  paper.  

1. Look  up  definitions  of  key  terms.    If  legalities  are  involved,  look  up  the  legal  definitions  of  the   terms  (or  their  non-­‐technology  equivalent  terms)  as  well.  

2. Try  to  find  one  or  two  relevant  cases,  especially  those  that  are  expected  to  be  ground-­‐breaking   legal  actions.  

3. Decide  which  type  of  ethical  analysis  is  appropriate  for  your  topic,  such  as  stakeholder  analysis,   societal  impact  statement,  classical  philosophy  (such  as  Utilitarian,  Kantian,  etc.).  Try  to  develop   the  analysis,  using  your  cases  where  appropriate.  

Common  Errors:  

After  grading  papers  and  presentations  for  many  semesters,  I  have  compiled  the  following  list  of  serious   errors  seen  in  those  papers.    Use  this  as  a  checklist  to  ensure  that  your  paper  is  a  quality  paper.  

1. Do  not  use  first  (I,  me,  my,  mine,  we,  our,  ours)  or  second  (you,  your,  yours)  person  in  a  research   paper  ever.    Use  only  third  person.  You  will  probably  use  a  lot  of  passive  voice.  

2. The  tone  of  your  article  should  be  one  of  scholarly  research.    It  should  NOT  be  “chatty”  like  a   magazine  article.  Do  not  use  questions.    State  facts  instead.  

3. Direct  quotes  should  almost  never  be  used.    You  should  be  able  to  read  and  discuss  what  you   have  read.    Cobbling  together  a  bunch  of  direct  quotes  as  a  paper  will  produce  a  grade  of  F,   regardless  of  the  use  of  citations.    

4. You  are  not  writing  an  essay  about  your  personal  opinions.    You  are  presenting  an  investigation   of  an  ethical  issue  and  an  ethical  analysis  of  that  issue  and  the  different  aspects  of  it.  

5. Check  your  grammar!    Make  sure  there  are  no  run-­‐on  sentences,  and  that  verbs  agree  with   nouns.    MS  Word  has  a  grammar  checker,  but  it  does  not  always  handle  complex  sentences   correctly.    Proofread!!    If  you  are  weak  in  English,  get  help  in  proofreading  and  grammar   correction.  

6. No  contractions  –  ever!!    (Examples:  can't,  don't,  won't,  isn't,  etc.)   7. Numbers  from  one  to  ten  should  be  spelled  out;  all  others  should  use  digits  only.   8. No  extra  spacing  between  paragraphs  –  the  first  line  indent  handles  paragraph  separation.  Extra  

spacing  will  be  assumed  to  be  “padding”  for  the  page  count.   9. No  bulleted  or  numbered  lists  ever.  Discuss  it  instead.   10. No  charts  or  figures.    They  will  not  be  counted  toward  your  page  count.   11. Make  sure  all  of  your  content  is  relevant  to  your  main  issue.    Irrelevant  content  is  padding!    All  

of  your  discussion  and  cases  should  be  about  ethical  issues  related  to  the  use  of  technology.  

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12. Your  focus  is  ethical  analysis  –  pick  one  or  more  ethical  analysis  methods  and  demonstrate  you   can  use  them.  

13. Make  sure  that  you  focus  on  the  ethical  issues,  including  both  points  of  view,   counterarguments,  and  valid  case  studies  (no  fictional  cases  ever).      

14. The  majority  of  your  paper  should  NOT  be  about  what  the  technology  is  and  how  it  works.    The   majority  of  your  paper  should  be  an  exploration  and  analysis  of  the  ethical  issues.  Your  audience   is  very  knowledgeable  about  technology  –  you  do  not  have  to  teach  us  about  it.    A  brief   discussion  of  the  "what  is"  is  sufficient.  

15. Make  sure  that  references  are  done  correctly,    using  APA  style  and  IEEE  numbering.   a. If  the  article  was  published  in  a  newspaper  of  journal,  use  that  as  the  citation  type,  not  

web  page  type.   b. All  web-­‐based  links  must  be  valid.  By  valid,  the  link  should  take  you  directly  to  the  paper  

or  article.    A  link  to  the  main  page  of  a  web  site  is  a  bad  reference.   c. Never  use  Wikipedia,  blogs,  forums,  Yahoo  Answers,  HowStuffWorks,  WikiAnswers,  etc.  

as  references  for  a  research  paper.     16. Follow  formatting  requirements  for  font,  font  size,  headers,  abstract,  body,  references,  etc.,  as  

described  in  the  Format  of  the  Paper  document.   17. No  cartoons  in  the  paper.    While  you  may  use  them  in  your  presentation  to  make  a  point,  they  

do  not  belong  in  a  scholarly  paper.   18. Avoid  padding  phrases.    Several  types  of  padding:  

a. Flowery  opening  phrases,  such  as:  "It  should  be  noted  that…".  "As  a  matter  of  fact,  …"   "Another  example  of  this  is…"    -­‐  just  state  the  next  example!  

b. Repeating  your  reference  information:    Example:  "According  to  author  Bob  Smith  in  a   study  done  in  2004  by  the  XXX  Group,  …".    Your  inline  citation  number  will  allow  me  to   go  see  who  did  the  study,  and  when.      This  is  unnecessary  padding.  

19. Avoid  repetition:  Example-­‐  "As  was  stated  earlier,…"    If  you  stated  it  earlier,  don't  repeat  it   again!  This  is  padding.