ethics Essay
You cannot use generative AI at any point in the creation of your Ethics Essay and, by turning in an Ethics Essay,
Objective: This exercise provides the opportunity for you to reason through a real case of possible ethical controversy in sport or another competitive activity. In doing so, the essay also helps you continue developing skills at concise exposition and argumentation.
Parameters:
- The exercise must fit onto 3 pages
- The only exception to the length guideline is that if your essay has references, the bibliography for those references can be included as a fourth page
- Single-spaced
- Standard US page size (8.5″ x 11″)
- No smaller than 11-point font
What to do:
The list of available cases from which to choose will be made available via a Google Doc several weeks before the end of the quarter.
From this list, select which case you’d like to write about. No more than 10 students can write about any one case, and so you need to call dibs on the case you’d like using a Google Doc that will be made available when the topics are released.
In your essay, you should:
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Briefly introduce the case. You can presume that we are familiar with its details, but the concise introduction should help frame the arguments that follow.
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Advance arguments for at least two “sides” regarding the case. (This should be the biggest part of the essay.) The most obvious scenario is opposing sides, but perhaps for some of the cases one can imagine there being more than two sides, in which case you need only discuss two contrasting sides. You should advance more than one argument for each side. You want to be careful to make the most reasonable case you can for the side that you will ultimately not adopt in side #3.
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End by articulating your own position and your reasons why, with attention to which of the arguments you previously offered are most consonant with your ultimate position and which are not.
Available topics:
[ACC] Did Stanford do the right thing by joining the ACC when the Pac-12 collapsed, or should it have prioritized competing with teams closer to home even if it would have meant less money and weaker competition?