Create your own 4-6 paragraph “dilemma” based on the controversial topic you chose. Summarize the dilemma. Identify the key points of the dilemma. Define the key terms associated with the dilemma. Analyze the conflicts or controversies involved in the dilemma. Provide an original point of view relative to the dilemma and the issue it signals. Apply Kant’s Categorical Imperative to the dilemma. Apply one other method you have encountered in the lecture material and the readings. State which of the two methods you selected you to prefer and why. Use the 5 articles from your annotated bibliography. (Additional academic scholarly research from the past 5 years can be included as well.) You can add more research materials to add to them. Paragraphs Paragraphs are composed around topics, which naturally and organically emerge from a complex, focused, and sophisticated thesis. Each paragraph explores one topic and one topic only. Topics directly relate to the thesis and are not theses in and of themselves. The paragraph completely and fully develops and explains the topic and provides details, examples, illustrations, and quotations from research as well as from the primary texts. Topics and paragraphs rise above commonplace thinking and summary. Quoted material is used powerfully to support analytical points (and not as padding). There is a graceful transition to the next paragraph. The ideas explored are significant, substantive, and instructive. Ideas/topics support the overarching thesis so that the paper is a unified whole and not a concatenation of appended mini-essays.
