Written Assignment Instructions and Outline
The recent Edward Snowden/NASA surveillance revelations case has brought a number of persistent ethical issues and problems to the fore.
There are several ethical lenses through which we can view this case, and within each lens there are at least two ways of seeing it, much
like bifocal glasses.
Including:
1) Edward Snowden; whistle blower or thief – patriot or traitor
2) The NSA; diligently doing its proper work to keep the nation safe or rogue agency out of control.
3) The American Public;trampled right to privacy, or willing sacrificed privacy for security
4) The Leaders of the World; who’s privacy was invaded or they are all doing the same thing to each other?
In this written assignment, choose any one lens to focus on and present BOTH sides (or positions). Follow the
outline for the paper provided below. Use Headings and the Subheadings to organize your thoughts. Cite all of your work correctly. If
you use more than five consecutive words from someone else, you must use quotation marks and a FULL citation including the page number.
If you paraphrase something of someone else’s you do not need the page number in the citation BUT be sure there are not five consecutive
words left in the statement
Formatting and putting it all together. Your whole document should be in New Times Roman 12 Font, unless otherwise noted. Use MLA
citation style ONLY. Number the pages. DO NOT use a running HEADER or FOOTER.
TITLE PAGE Include the title you are giving the paper “Centered” in 14 font New Times Roman
Your Name under the title in 12 Font
The name and number of the course and the semester
The name of the instructor.
TABLE of CONTENT If your paper is longer than 10 pages it needs one. See sample below.
TABLE of CONTENT (“Centered” in 14 font New Times Roman)
SECTION PAGE
Introduction ………………………………….. ………………….2
Section I The Problem ………………………………….……. 3
Events…………………………………………………….4
Key Players ………………………………………………….6
X …………………………………………………..6
Y…………………………………………………..7
Section II Moral Agency ………… ………………………………..8
INTRODUCTION See sample
SECTIONS Give each section of your paper a title. All of the headings and subheadings that appear in the paper should be listed in
the Table of Content. Depending on how many levels of Headings, subheadings and sub=subheadings the fonts should distinguish the
importance of the section. For example: Major Sections could be ALL CAPS or Bolded. Headings could be first letter Capitol. Subheadings
could be indented and sub-sub headings (if you have them) in italics.
CONCLUSION This is where you can freely express your own thoughts and opinions.
REFERENCES In MLA reference style citations in the References are listed in alphabetical order, LAST name FIRST. While you can
abbreviate several authors in the text citation with < et al. >, in the References you must list ALL the author full names. However,
after the first author, the names go FIRST name FIRST.