There are many topics to choose from under the general heading of bioengineering, primarily:
What are the personal, social, ethical, moral, religious, etc. implications of recent health/biology/life-related developments of technology?
Should we be “engineering” in all of the ways that we are?
If we engineer for better life, we will also engineer for longer life; what are the consequences of this development regarding the other issues that we’ve discussed in class?
Are there side issues regarding quality of life? (Think side effects of medicine and surgeries, such as colostomy bags.) If so, what are they? What solutions might be implemented?
What is society’s role in these developments?
Of course there are other possibilities, including more personal approaches.
Final drafts are required to be typed/word-processed and double-spaced. Please use a standard font and size, typically Times Roman, 12 point. All margins should be one inch.
Edit carefully. This is a second-level writing course, and as such, expectations are high regarding grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, and other basic concerns. Although grammar and mechanics are not the primary grading factors, they are important to how a reader responds to writing.
Although length is not an explicit evaluation factor, the topics we’ve been developing are complex and sophisticated enough to require some development. Papers should likely be between four and six typed, double-spaced pages, not including the Works Cited page.
A title page is not required, nor is an abstract or a formal outline. Simply put your name, the course, my name, and the assignment in the upper left-hand corner of the page, single-spaced. Center the title of your paper and then leave a couple of blank lines before starting the text of the paper.
A works cited page is required. A paper will automatically fail if a works cited page is not included. No certain number of sources is required. Typically, however, a reasonable number of sources for papers of this scope and depth is 5-7. It is highly unlikely that only 1 or 2 sources will be adequate.
You may use headings and subheadings as tools to display organization, but you are not required to do so.