Take-Home Term Paper Quiz

(15 points)

A. Write up a topic proposal for your term paper. Indicate which theory (or theories) and/or which argument(s) you plan to discuss. Provide a brief outline or sketch of how you hope to construct your term paper. Make sure that your outline meets the constraints established by the Official Term Paper Document. Be sure that your paper (i) addresses a philosophical problem in engineering ethics, ethics, or philosophy (broadly construed); (ii) is focussed upon a philosophical argument, principle, theory, or case; and (iii) contains a central argument. You are writing an argument paper.

B. Find THREE RESPECTABLE SOURCES (journal articles, manuscripts, chapters of books, entries in respectable encyclopedias of philosophy) that may be relevant to the construction of your term paper. Present a proper bibliographical entry for each source. Articulate either (i) precisely how you plan to utilize the content of each of the selected sources in your term paper or (ii) why it appears that one (or more) of the sources may be in some ways irrelevant to the construction of your term paper. Make sure that at least one of your sources is relevant to the construction of your term paper. (See the The Official Term Paper Document for details.)

This quiz should be VERY SHORT.

This quiz will be graded for content and style.

No quiz will be accepted unless it is typed.

No quiz will be accepted after 1:20 PM on Thursday, October 29.

No Term Paper will be accepted by anyone who fails to turn in this Quiz; this Quiz is a prerequisite for a Term Paper submission.

Feel free to email drafts of your quiz to me for pre-grading commentary. It's unlikely that I'll be able to provide any pre-grading commentary on documents turned in within a week of the deadline: Thursday, October 29.