Social/Ethical/Professional Issues in Computer Science First Essay
Instructions :
This involve explaining someone else’s view and then criticizing the view. See the specific options for wordcount constraints on the sections.
Bellaby on political hacking:
Bellaby states the following conclusion on p. 245 of his paper: “Therefore, these attacks can be justified”. He is referring to some political hacks that he introduced and discussed shortly before this conclusion, in Section 5 of his paper.
First, explain in your own words which attacks he is referring to, and why he thinks they can be justified. You can mostly do this through looking at Section 5 of the paper, but you should also look at the paper more broadly to get a sense of why he thinks political hacks are justifiable. This first part of the paper should take 500 words, plus or minus ten percent.
Second, give one or two objections to Bellaby’s line of argument. Explain why your objection or objections are convincing. This second part of the paper should take 500 words, plus or minus ten percent.
Format & Writing Style
Use 12-point fonts and double space. Write in complete sentences and use paragraph breaks to help organize your thoughts around different topics.
Using the word “I” is fine in philosophical writing. It’s the right thing to do when are explaining what you believe and why you believe it.
You don’t need an introduction or a conclusion. Your essay will be easy to follow if you structure it as described above, and explicitly describe that structure as you move through the paper. (Here’s what explicitly describing structure can look like – a sentence at the start of a new paragraph which says, “Now that I have finished explaining Craig’s view, we can move on to my two critical points. First, … ”)
When you make reference to quotations or ideas from Craig or Bellaby, make in-text parenthetical citations at the end of the sentence in which you do so and those parenthetical citations must indicate what page of the reading you can find the quotation or idea on. That can look like this: “Sample sentence where I explain something Craig believes” (Craig p. x; where x is the page that you draw on in your interpretation of Craig.)
You do not need to cite sources external to the course to succeed at this assignment, nor does doing so make it likelier that you will succeed at this assignment. If you do cite sources external to the course, include them in a list of works cited at the end, and follow either APA or MLA in how you write down that list of works cited.
You don’t need to include the Craig/Bellaby papers in you lists of works cited, but you may if you like. But you do need to use in-text citations to clarify which parts of their texts you are drawing on.