A Question of Ethics Alessandra decided to do her speech on the limited educational opportunities for women in the devel
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2022 9:45 am
A Question of Ethics Alessandra decided to do her speech on the
limited educational opportunities for women in the developing
world. This topic was close to her heart, as her mother had
struggled for years to improve education for women in her native
country of Eritrea before immigrating to the United States.
Moreover, Alessandra had already done quite a bit of reading on the
topic. As chance would have it, Alessandra came down with the flu
the week before her speech was due and was flat on her back for
four days so she didn’t begin working on her speech until the
afternoon before it was due. Still, by midnight, she had completed
what she felt was a strong draft. The next morning she cleaned up a
few typos and errors in her outline and then practiced delivering
it for the next two hours. Just before leaving for school, she read
the instructions one last time to double-check that she had done
everything correctly. Were her eyes playing tricks on her? The
speech needed to be supported by no fewer than five published
sources, yet she had cited only four. How could she have overlooked
this detail? Alessandra thought frantically. She could ask for an
extension, but she had too much other schoolwork to do in the
coming days and needed to complete this project now. She could
leave her speech as it was, but Mr. Allen was a stickler for little
details and he’d certainly lower her grade over the missing source.
Alessandra had, of course, read other books on her topic in the
past, even if she hadn’t cited them in her speech. Although she
couldn’t remember the specific details of these books, she recalled
their general message well enough. That was the solution! She would
write a few quotations from one of the books based on her memory,
drop them into her speech she knew just the spot and then
update her references with credit information pulled from the
Internet. In less than a half hour, Alessandra completed her
emergency revisions and was on her way to class. What ethical
obligations does Alessandra have to her sources?
limited educational opportunities for women in the developing
world. This topic was close to her heart, as her mother had
struggled for years to improve education for women in her native
country of Eritrea before immigrating to the United States.
Moreover, Alessandra had already done quite a bit of reading on the
topic. As chance would have it, Alessandra came down with the flu
the week before her speech was due and was flat on her back for
four days so she didn’t begin working on her speech until the
afternoon before it was due. Still, by midnight, she had completed
what she felt was a strong draft. The next morning she cleaned up a
few typos and errors in her outline and then practiced delivering
it for the next two hours. Just before leaving for school, she read
the instructions one last time to double-check that she had done
everything correctly. Were her eyes playing tricks on her? The
speech needed to be supported by no fewer than five published
sources, yet she had cited only four. How could she have overlooked
this detail? Alessandra thought frantically. She could ask for an
extension, but she had too much other schoolwork to do in the
coming days and needed to complete this project now. She could
leave her speech as it was, but Mr. Allen was a stickler for little
details and he’d certainly lower her grade over the missing source.
Alessandra had, of course, read other books on her topic in the
past, even if she hadn’t cited them in her speech. Although she
couldn’t remember the specific details of these books, she recalled
their general message well enough. That was the solution! She would
write a few quotations from one of the books based on her memory,
drop them into her speech she knew just the spot and then
update her references with credit information pulled from the
Internet. In less than a half hour, Alessandra completed her
emergency revisions and was on her way to class. What ethical
obligations does Alessandra have to her sources?