Dissertation Topic Ethical Issues Paper

Purpose
This assignment is intended to help you learn to do the following:
• Critique real-world ethical issues through the lens of ethical principles.

Synopsis
Select an ethical issue or debate related to your dissertation topic and discuss its importance and how it relates to your dissertation. This could be an issue that you discussed in Doctoral Dialogue 4, one brought up by a classmate in the course of that discussion, or another issue altogether. You should start your paper by identifying the issue and explaining its importance. The bulk of your paper should focus on analyzing the various points of view of the issue or debate through the lens of the ethical principles discussed earlier in the course. Your paper should conclude with a discussion of how this issue or debate might impact your dissertation research.

Note that IRB related considerations are not to be discussed in this paper.