Introduction Introduce your topic and identify the ethical issues that will be explored in your paper

What is your topic?

What questions are you exploring?

Why is it important?

Who are the stakeholders that are impacted by this issue?

Does this topic create an ethical dilemma that needs to be addressed?

Literature Review

Using trusted resources, provide evidence-based background information on the ethical issues your paper explores.

What factual information does the reader need to know to understand the topic?

Methodology

What steps did you take to gather factual information about your topic?

If you collected data through interviews, observations, or another method:

What steps did you take to gather your data?

What did you do to analyze the data that you gathered?

What resources did you use?

Discussion

What insights did you uncover while researching the topic?

What are the relevant facts?

What facts remain unknown?

Is this information possible to study or research in future projects?

What are your opinions on the topic based on the analysis?

What are counter arguments to your opinions?

Are there solutions or alternatives that you recommend are explored that would resolve this ethical dilemma?

What are the next steps to explore this topic further?

What are the limitations of this project? What answers would be meaningful to address, but this research cannot?

Conclusion - Provide a summary of your paper and tie up loose ends

Concisely summarize what you discovered

Did you integrate feedback from your classmates? If so, write a thank you to acknowledge them!