Giving Booster Shots to Americans vs. Distributing Vaccines to Poorer Nations

After reading the assigned chapters in the textbook, select one entry on which to conduct an ethical analysis. You will need at least two additional scholarly sources besides the entry in the textbook to support your stance. Find valid, scholarly sources through the San Jac Online Library Databases to support your stance. Your must have at least two claims/reasons to support your stance. You will also need to address the counterargument to each claim/reason you make. The counterargument is typically only a small portion of the paper, but it shows the reader that you are aware of both sides of the argument.
This helps to strengthen your argument. Your essay should be 500-1000+ words in length following proper MLA format.
Consider how the rhetorical appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos are used and how they are intertwined in the argument. Consider how the use of only one appeal is often ineffective; logos without the use of ethos can be unsuccessful. It is this interconnectedness of ethos, logos, and/or pathos that drives the persuasive technique. Consider how the rhetorical appeals are being used to persuade the audience and whether those appeals are effective while arguing for or against the ethical dilemma presented in the entry. Writing an ethics paper requires you to choose a topic and argue whether it is ethical or not, using facts such as
statistics to support your position. For the purposes of this assignment the following terms mean:
Stance – the side of the argument you are arguing
Claim/reason – the reasons that support your stance/argument
Counterargument – the opposing side of the argument
Rebuttal (refute) – your argument against the counterargument
Be sure that you are addressing an ETHICAL DILEMMA in the paper, not just the controversy
surrounding the topic. Examples:
Controversial topic without an ethical dilemma:
People need to take the Covid-19 vaccine in order for businesses to reopen and human interaction to occur.
This is a controversial issue, but there is no ethical concern in this thesis statement. There must be an ethical aspect to the topic.
Ethical Dilemma topic:
US should focus on their own population and allow children under the age of 18 to take the Covid-19 vaccine in order to allow schools to reopen and teachers to feel safe, rather than assisting the global community in vaccinating the population of less wealthy counties. Rather than giving the Covid-19 vaccine to children under the age of 18 who are at low risk of infection and can have controlled/limited interactions with others, the US should offer their vaccine surplus to countries that are struggling to vaccinate their elderly. The ethical issue of the US taking care of itself rather the helping other countries or the US helping other
countries over itself is addressed in these two arguments. It goes beyond arguing the controversial issue and discusses the ethical side of the issue – being part of the global community by helping others.
Basic outline for essay
I. Introduction
A. An opening hook
B. An overview of the ethical issue (1-2 sentences) presented the assigned reading, include
parenthetical citation of source (citation provided at the end of each entry)
C. Give any additional background information necessary to understand the issue (optional)
D. Thesis statement – at least two claims (last sentence of introduction) – clearly states the stance
on the argument and at least two claims/reasons that will be used to support that stance
II. Body paragraphs (one paragraph for each claim mentioned in thesis – at least two)
A. Topic sentence to support claims presented in thesis statement
B. Introduce source and use quotes/paraphrase/summary as evidence from the sources to support
each claim
C. Explain the relevance to the source information as it relates to your claim
D. Give the counterargument
E. Refute the counterargument
F. Link sentence that ties idea back to the overall thesis
III. Conclusion
A. Restate main points
B. close with a call to action
IV. Works Cited page (last page of essay - a separate page from last page of essay, not a separate document) assigned reading source citation and any additional sources used in the essay – following proper
MLA format
This essay should be written as an argument in support of your view, use a professional tone, and include a counterargument. You should avoid using first person or second person or using anecdotes. You will have a thesis statement with claims and the claims need to be addressed in each of your topic sentences