{"id":34570,"date":"2023-09-26T03:14:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T03:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/week-5-ethics-and-contemporary-issues-project-introduction-background-and-ethical-challenges\/"},"modified":"2023-09-26T03:14:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T03:14:43","slug":"week-5-ethics-and-contemporary-issues-project-introduction-background-and-ethical-challenges","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/week-5-ethics-and-contemporary-issues-project-introduction-background-and-ethical-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 5:  Ethics and Contemporary issues project Introduction, Background and Ethical Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week you will compose the opening sections of your ethical response to the controversial issue you have chosen.&nbsp; Next week, you will complete the response by adding solutions and a conclusion section.&nbsp; This week&#8217;s response should be organized as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction: in one to two paragraphs, introduce the topic you have chosen.&nbsp; This section may be similar to what you wrote at the beginning of the academic research assignment in Week 4.&nbsp; Tell the reader what your topic is, why you have chosen it, and why people should care about it.<\/li>\n<li>Background: in a few paragraphs, tell your reader about the history and context of your chosen topic.&nbsp; What social, political, cultural, or technological factors have shaped attitudes toward this topic, and how have attitudes about this topic changed over time?&nbsp; Why is this particular topic especially relevant today?<\/li>\n<li>Ethical Challenges: In a few more paragraphs, outline the key ethical challenges raised by your chosen topic.&nbsp; For purposes of this assignment, think of an ethical challenge as a problem&nbsp;with several possible solutions, none being perfect.&nbsp; Next week you will discuss possible solutions, but for this week you will simply focus on laying out the dilemmas your topic poses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Assignment Requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Length:&nbsp;at least 750 words<\/li>\n<li>Format: use the standard APA-style&nbsp;document template<\/li>\n<li>Research: cite at least three sources&#8211;these may be the same sources you used in last week&#8217;s assignment (but you are welcome to use additional sources as needed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week you will compose the opening sections of your ethical response to the controversial issue you have chosen.&nbsp; Next week, you will complete the response by adding solutions and a conclusion section.&nbsp; This week&#8217;s response should be organized as follows: Introduction: in one to two paragraphs, introduce the topic you have chosen.&nbsp; This section [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[316],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/34570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=34570"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=34570"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=34570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}