Format: This 12-page document will have the following components:
Page 1: A cover page stating the title of the paper, the name of the student, section id, and section TA name
Pages 2-9: Approximately 8 pages of content
Page 10-12 (flexible): APA style references1Links to an external site.
The document will use a single-column, double-spaced, 12 pt font format with 1-inch margins
Grading criteria: out of 95 (19% of your overall grade)
Completeness
Writing
Quality of research and argument presented
Insight into computing and society issues
For your term paper (on which you previously wrote a proposal and then an outline), you have conducted research an issue about computing and society that you are initially undecided about. In your paper, you will take a position on that issue and support that position. Your paper should be approximately eight pages long, without the cover page and the references. You can borrow from the content you wrote in your proposal, and should use the outline you completed in a previous assignment (minor deviations are allowed). You can also add references to this final paper, on top of the ones you used in your paper proposal and outline.
Try to be balanced and fair in your presentation of evidence. You do not necessarily need to take a strong stance on the issue. If as you research you find you are really undecided, you may instead write about why there is currently not enough evidence available on your issue. You can review all the existing evidence, and in your conclusion outline what sort of empirical research would be desirable to fully understand the issue.
Insights in computing and society issues. By now, you would have had a good grasp of how computing technologies impact our social and personal lives. You are welcome to use any of the constructs (e.g., intellectual property, software code of ethics, or information privacy) or theories (e.g., the ethical theories) to unpack your arguments.
Quality of writing counts. Please try to make your prose clear and readable. Do not use overly formal language, but also do not use colloquialisms. Your textbook and readings are reasonable models for the desired writing style. To the greatest extent possible, all statements in your paper should be supported by appropriate references. If you include personal opinion or other sources of data (e.g., quotes of famous people or news media pieces), mark those clearly. Your bibliography should be in APA style.
Your bibliography should be balanced towards scholarly (peer-reviewed) resources (books, articles, government publications, and so forth) with some supporting evidence coming from newspapers (or other non-peer-reviewed sources). Please avoid citing the same reference over and over. Sometimes we get term papers that are essentially a summary of one source. This does not make a good paper. In my experience ~20 citations are good. But I would recommend having ~15 unique scholarly references. Too many references (e.g., over 30) imply too broad a topic, and under 10 likely needs expanding.
I have attached the proposal and outline below, including some preselected sources. In addition, the argument must be grounded in ethical theory (kantianism, social contract, computing code of ethics, rule utilitarianism, etc..)