The Researched Argument, 10-12 pages, double spaced, which brings together your understanding of the scholarship on a specific (business) ethical issue and your ability to articulate a response to that problem, should exhibit your ability to:
1) invent a sophisticated research question, problem, or issue,
2) undertake in-depth research that informs the question at hand,
3) derive a plausible soft-claim that seriously addresses your problem, and
4) suggest an even better question that prompts further thinking on the matter.
Typically, the 1st Section of your writing includes:
A Set-up for your Research Question, a brief lay-of the land narrative that provides a broad description of the problem at hand.This general comment shows what brings you to the issue, often by way of setting down the current scholarly debate, or by describing a scene from a film, book, or news event.
The Problem as you see it, which hints at the Research Question itself.This brief narrative frames the issue at hand so that you can then ask a specific question for your research.
The Research Question (#1 above) which can take the form of a stated problem (âIn this essay I want to interrogate the ways ideology informs our identity-constructsâ), or an actual question (âIn what ways does ideology determine our identity?)This is the single most important component of your writing.
The Research Method and a glimpse of your Researched Argument.This optional narrative shows how you plan to address the question through research, and how your argument will emerge from your findings.
âThe themes of citizenship and community are being discussed in many quarters of the left today.This is no doubt a consequence of the crisis of class politics and indicates the growing awareness of the need for a new form of identification around which to organize the forces struggling for a radicalization of democracy.â
âI believe that the question of political identity is crucial and that the attempt to construct citizensâ identities is one of the more important tasks of democratic politics.But there are many different versions of citizenship and vital issues are at stake in their contest. The way we define citizenship is intimately linked to the kind of society and political community we want.â
âHow should we understand citizenship when our goal is both a radical and plural democracy? Such a project requires the creation of a chain of equivalence among democratic struggles, and therefore the creation of a common political identity among democratic subjects.For the term citizens to actually mean this and function in this way, what conditions must it meet?â
âThese are the problems that I will address, and I will argue that the key task is how to conceive of the nature of the political community under modern democratic conditions.I consider that we need to go beyond the conceptions of citizenship of both the liberal and civic republican tradition while building on their respective strengths.â
Typically, the 2nd Section of your writing includes:
The Research (#2 above), which functions exclusively to address and inform your understanding of the question so that you can intelligently and carefully construct your soft-claim
This is the section in which you play an intellectual âping-pong match.
Pose your question to the scholarly world (journals, books, culture, etc)
What you read in your research (scholarly ideas) is then pinged to you
What you process in your own mind (your re-construction of scholarship)
is then ponged back to the scholarly world through different lenses
Re-ping and Re-pong as necessary
This section becomes the bulk of your writing (usually 6-7 references)
Typically, the 3rd Section of your writing includes:
When all is said and done in terms of your thoughtful research about the question at hand, the 3rd section serves as the place for you to state your now-informed Soft Claim (#3 above) and to offer further implications for new research on the topic (#4 above)
The âconclusionâ you reach (your soft-claim) has to do with the research you have amassed, and is therefore not a sum-up (please!!!)
By offering further implications, you provide scholars who read your work a chance to think more about the issue and perhaps even advance your claims
(Please use 1 of the 3 standard style guides for your essayâMLA, APA, or Chicago Manual)
(You should have at least 6 sources from your research)
Note: The attach file is the Abstract Paper that I wrote which is will narrow the essay and will answer the questions or problems that is will be in the reaserch argument)
