In this paper you will reflect on your worldview as it pertains to environmental ethics. This process will include three separate components. First, you will provide a brief historical narrative as you describe how your family, culture, religion, and schooling taught you (formally or informally) to accept certain principles. Be sure to talk about the positive and negative habits and views that were instilled in you. Second, you will describe and analyze your own experience of, and reactions to, contemporary environmental issues (you must have at least two, and they must be integrated, so choose things that are relevant to one another). This section of your paper may include the personal reactions you have had to advertising you have seen or political speeches you have heard. It may include your reflections on court cases that have been covered by the media or the ways that you have tried to understand (and meld) things you have read in empirical journals or scientific reports. You will describe analyze and describe these environmental issues juxtaposed against the worldview you outlined in the first section of your paper. One of the issues you discuss must be linked in to your service-learning in this class. Be sure that this entire section clearly indicates ways in which your thinking has changed over time, culminating in your current worldview. Last, you will describe the ways in which you would like to grow, both in understanding and behavior, with regard to your environmental ethics; feel free to draw on your service-learning experience for this section of your paper, too. Think about yourself in an idealized sense—how would you like to live your life, and how can you move from your current position to that ideal self? Your paper will be 6-10 typed, double-spaced pages in length exclusive of reference page(s) and title page.
Detailed Instructions:
1. Your paper must include: a) title page; b) appropriate in-text citations, such as the readings for the class, outside literature; and c) a reference page.
2. Your paper should be neatly typed and double-spaced; you may use the format that is specific to your discipline (e.g., APA, MLA, etc.) but you must select a style and use it consistently.
3. The text portion of your paper should be 6-10 pages long. If it is shorter than this, or much longer than this, then you need to keep working on your paper. No paper should be more than 10 pages long (text portion), under any circumstances. The paper will be graded primarily on content and clarity.
4. Watch spelling and grammar, as these will also constitute a portion of your grade.
5. Organize your thoughts before writing. Make sure your essay is coherent and that your points are clear and well-supported.
6. You’ll do better if you submit a second or third draft rather than a first draft.
7. To save paper, you will submit your paper electronically only. The time/date stamp on the submission will be used to determine whether your paper is on time. Computer glitches do happen, and I urge you to turn your paper in a little before it is due—if you wait until the last minute, and something goes wrong, your paper will be late!
8. The location for electronic submission is TurnItIn.com. You probably already have a user profile—if so, don’t create a new profile, just add this class to your existing profile (class ID =6319695; enrollment password = sustainable). IF you do not yet have a profile, set one up using this id and password, along with your own individual information (email address and personal password)
Paper #1
This sheet is provided so that you will know how your paper is being graded. Paper should be 6-10 pages, typed, double-spaced with one-inch margins. Follow the guidelines on the previous sheet.
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