Essay #3: Ethics & Bots Prompt, English homework help
Essay #3: Ethics & Bots Prompt
Essay #3: Ethics of Bots
Background:
For your third essay, you will be analyzing the ethical dilemmas surrounding Robots & AI. In class, we have been reading and analyzing both the moral, ethical, and leadership issues that a robot renaissance brings up, as well as making connections that these dilemmas are trying to represent in the “real” world around us and/or what perspectives readers & watchers might have on the themes within this genre.
Now, it is time to use your ideas about this play to produce an argumentative, position essay that examine an ethical, legal, or authoritative dilemma surrounding zombies.
ESSAY #3 TOPICS: Please pick one of the following topic to write on!
Option 1: Is it ethical to kill a robot? Why/why not?
- Please explain your answer in a 750-1000 word essay that focuses on the topic, has a clear introduction that ends in a thesis, multiple body paragraphs that contain fully developed topic sentences and supporting evidence, and a concluding paragraph that explains the significance of your analysis.
- In this essay, you must use at least 5 quotes from the reading to support your position.
Option 2: Should robots be tried for criminal offenses: Murder, disturbing the peace, destruction of property, etc? Why/Why not?
- Please explain your answer in a 750-1000 word essay that focuses on the topic, has a clear introduction that ends in a thesis, multiple body paragraphs that contain fully developed topic sentences and supporting evidence, and a concluding paragraph that explains the significance of your analysis. In this essay, you must use at least 5 quotes from the reading to support your position.
Option 3: Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights extend to robots or AI? Why/Why not?
- Please explain your answer in a 750-1000 word essay that focuses on the topic, has a clear introduction that ends in a thesis, multiple body paragraphs that contain fully developed topic sentences and supporting evidence, and a concluding paragraph that explains the significance of your analysis. In this essay, you must use at least 5 quotes from the reading to support your position.
Option 4: Pick a leader either from real life or fictional texts that should lead humanity through a Robot Apocalypse. Why?
- Please explain your answer in a 750-1000 word essay that focuses on the topic, has a clear introduction that ends in a thesis, multiple body paragraphs that contain fully developed topic sentences and supporting evidence, and a concluding paragraph that explains the significance of your analysis. In this essay, you must use at least 5 quotes from the reading to support your position.
Option 5: Pick one Movie, TV show, or video game with robots and analyze what ethical position it takes on human & robot/AI relationships.
- Please explain your answer in a 750-1000 word essay that focuses on the topic, has a clear introduction that ends in a thesis, multiple body paragraphs that contain fully developed topic sentences and supporting evidence, and a concluding paragraph that explains the significance of your analysis. In this essay, you must use at least 5 quotes from the reading to support your position.
MLA WORKS CITED EXAMPLES:
- Format:
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Book: Single Author Author. Title. Place: Publisher, Date. Medium |
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Bolling, Linda. My Life with My Best Friend in Colorado. New York: Time-Life, 2008. Print. |
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PAPER FORMAT: |
Essay Requirements: |
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Ø 750 words (about 3.5+ pages Double Spaced). Ø Have: Name, Class, Date, Assignment, and Topic in upper left hand corner. Ø A title that is not GENERIC Ø All drafts, pre-writing, and outline must be turned in with the final copy of the essay. Ø Typed Ø A works cited is required for any outside research |
1. An introduction that provides context on the topic and eases the reader into your essay 2. A thesis statement or controlling idea that takes a stand 3. Transitional topic sentences that are clear, provocative, and develop your thesis and provide unity in your essay 4. Body paragraphs that help prove your argument 5. Plenty of support from texts 6. (PARAPHRASING DOES NOT COUNT AS A QUOTE) 7. For each quote, please use the direct model discussed in-class 8. Some analysis of all your supporting examples 9. A conclusion that offers some ideas about what can be done about the situation 10. Strong sentences that are both grammatically correct and sophisticated 11. Use proper MLA formatting, in-text citations, and Works Cited entries. NOT having proper MLA citations will result in a 0/100 on the assignment. 12. Write in 3rd person NOT first person. |
A Successful Essay Will Have
Introduction:
* A title specific to the topic
* An attention getter
* Background on the topic (please make it clear which prompt you are answering)
* End with your thesis
* A clearly stated thesis (your opinion – your 1-2 sentence response to the essay prompt) which speaks to the “so what” of the issue and is not merely a list plan of development.
Body:
* Topic sentence that is related to the thesis
* Supporting evidence
* Quotes from the text (Remember to cite the quotes)
* Consideration of and rebuttal against the other side of the topic
Conclusion:
* DO NOT bring up a new topic
* A suggestion of the consequences of your position for society, readers, individuals, what you want to happen in the future, or how the author might feel about your position, etc.
Works Cited Page
- That cites all sources using current MLA guidelines.
Evaluation Criteria for Your Essay:
I will use the following criteria to evaluate your position paper:
- Have you engaged the readers’ interest at the beginning and throughout the paper?
- Have you chosen an arguable position and defined it carefully (e.g. placing the issue in its historical or cultural context, citing specific instances to make the issue seem less abstract, or establishing or redefining the terms of the debate)?
- Have you organized your paper into an introduction, body (containing several paragraphs), and conclusion?
- Have you included at the end of the introduction a thesis statement that asserts a clear, unequivocal position on the issue you have chosen and, possibly, forecasts the stages of the argument, identifying the main reason or reasons that you will develop and support in the essay?
- Have you given reasons why readers should take your position seriously?
- Have you organized your reasons into a logical order (e.g. placing the strongest reason last and the second-strongest reason first, with the other reasons in the middle)?
- Have you supported each reason with examples, facts, analogies, statistics, anecdotes, or quotes from
- authorities? Remember: you need 5 quotes from the readings.
- Have you anticipated readers’ questions and their positions on an issue, counterarguing as needed?
- Have you signaled explicitly the move from one topic to the next using forecasting statements, transitions, topic sentences, rhetorical questions, and/or summaries?
- Have you cited at least 5 quotes in your essay, using MLA in-text (parenthetical) citation strategies correctly?
- Have you integrated the sources into your essay, using signal phrases to introduce long quotations or incorporating shorter quotations into the sentences smoothly?
- Have you included an MLA Works Cited at the end of your essay?
- Are the sentences clear and correct?
- Is the essay between 750-1500 words (please do not exceed 1500 words)?
