Describe methods to use in identifying and narrowing your research paper topic.

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Question description

The first step in the research process is selecting a topic that is both interesting and manageable. For this discussion:

  • Review the Final Research Project instructions in Week Five, and identify two potential research topics. Keep in mind that you will choose just one for the Week Three Annotated Bibliography assignment and the Final Research Project.
  • Describe methods to use in identifying and narrowing your research paper topic.
  • Examine and summarize information from at least two scholarly sources for one of the topics that may prove valuable as you seek to defend your claims regarding your chosen topic.
  • Address why scholarly sources should be used to support your writing on the selected topic.
  • Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references.
  • Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length
Two references below:
  • Gampel, E. H. (2010). A framework for reasoning about ethical issues. Retrieved from http://www.academia.edu/4323854/A_Framework_for_Reasoning_about_Ethical_Issues
    • This essay offers a systematic framework for reasoning about ethical issues. After an introduction to ethics, the essay sets out the major principles that are important to ethical reflection, and then describes a five-step procedure for analyzing and resolving ethical issues that incorporates those principles. The procedure offers a principled alternative to the appeals to gut instinct, tradition, and politics that all too often characterize how people think and talk about ethics. In closing, the essay introduces the fields of moral theory and moral philosophy, areas for further study that can also improve ethical decision-making.” (Gampel, n.d., p.1)
  • Jwood00. (2012, December 10). Responsibilities of an educated person [Blog post]. Retrieved from http://jwood00.hubpages.com/hub/Responsibilities-of-an-educated-person

For this discussion you will

  • Explain what it means to be ethical as it relates to personal, academic, and professional growth.
  • Provide at least one ethical dilemma you have encountered and describe how the issue was resolved.
  • Describe how your general education courses influenced your ethical values.
  • Explain why a college-educated person might have different duties to society than someone not as educated.
  • Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite any references.
  • Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length.
For reference
The topic of your project needs to be a contemporary societal problem, such as healthcare reform, immigration reform, privacy rights, euthanasia, First Amendment Rights, stem cell research, capital punishment, corporate prisons, legalizing drugs, ageism, animal rights, cloning, prayer in schools, racial profiling, recycling/conservation, sexism, outsourcing jobs, workplace bullying, etc. The topic must focus on a single aspect, as in “How far do corporations intrude into the private lives of their employers?” or “The social costs of financing the distribution of custom-designed drugs.” You may suggest another topic to use, but the instructor must approve the topic during the Week Two Discussion.
 
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