Course Project – Partial Draft
This week, you will draft the first body parts of the essay you outlined last week.
- Historical Context – Examining history, including important events, controversies, and actions, provides insights on our current situation
- Current Situation – Looking beyond the shiny marketing helps us see both positive and negative implications for individual and groups of stakeholders.
- Future Implications and Needs – Seeing potential opportunities and threats sets the stage for recommendations.
The history, current and future implications sections establish the foundation for your recommendations. You will complete the remaining parts of the recommendations essay in Weeks 6 and 7.
Remember that our project is to focus on the ethical implications of the technology. Be sure to keep the positive and negative effects on people at the heart of your writing. Consider how different individuals, groups, cultures and societies, as well as their communities and environments, are or will be impacted by the technology.
While outlining and drafting, you may realize a need to find additional information and supporting sources. Keep adding to your expertise as you complete the project so you can present a strong, credible argument and a practical, effective recommendation. Remember to keep all your sources, annotations, notes, and other work in progress in case you need it or your professor requests it later.
Instructions
Follow this process for completing the assignment:
- Use your Week 4 Introduction and Outline as your roadmap and starting point for drafting. Save a copy of your Week 4 Introduction and Outline document with a new title, such as Jones.Samantha_Essay.
- Review and apply any feedback you may have received from your professor, classmates, or tutors.
- Expand the outline’s brief topic details into complete sentences and paragraphs. Add evidence, examples, explanations, and elaborations.
- Cite as you write. Use the citations you included in your outline and add more as appropriate. Acknowledge the correct source of every bit of information in the sentence where it appears, even if you have presented the sources’ ideas and information entirely in your own words.
- Read the grading rubric below, and review the Course Project Overview page to be sure you have met all expectations.
- Revise your draft to be sure the message is clear, concise, complete, and correct.
- Confirm that all information that is not common knowledge is properly cited.
- Use the tutoring options for support, but do not use Grammarly or any other, non-approved artificial intelligence.
- Carefully edit before submitting your document. Check format, spelling, grammar and mechanics.
A successful assignment will
- contain 750–900 words (about two to three pages in length);
- be composed using the Course Project Template Download Course Project TemplateOpen this document with ReadSpeaker docReader;
- use and cite a minimum of four sources following current APA Style guidelines.
Don’t forget to submit your assignment for grading.
