Ethical Evaluation of a Corporation

What does it take for you not to support a business?

Annotated Bibliography

You will choose a Fortune 500 company for ethical evaluation. You will develop criteria for a "good" or "ethical" company, and perform extensive research on microsoft company in order to evaluate its ethics. You will consider a range of issues, such as: sustainability, environmental impact, treatment of employees/labor, corporate policy, newsworthy controversies, etc. Write from the perspective of a consumer. Is this company an ethical company? Is it a good business? Consider what it would take for a company to earn or lose your loyalty.

Annotated Bibliography Assignment

For this unit, you are asked to rely on a much larger amount of research (5 sources). To aide you in bringing this amount of research into your work, you are asked to complete an annotated bibliography of your sources. This document will allow you to better assess your source material and more neatly finesse your research into your final paper.

From the OWL at Purdue University:

A bibliography is a list of sources (books, journals, websites, periodicals, etc.) one has used for researching a topic. An annotation is a summary and/or evaluation. Therefore, an annotated bibliography includes a summary and/or evaluation of each of the sources. Depending on your project or the assignment, your annotations may do one or more of the following:

Summarize: Some annotations merely summarize the source. What are the main arguments? What is the point of this book or article? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this article/book is about, what would you say? The length of your annotations will determine how detailed your summary is.

Assess: After summarizing a source, it may be helpful to evaluate it. Is it a useful source? How does it compare with other sources in your bibliography? Is the information reliable? Is this source biased or objective? What is the goal of this source?

Reflect: Once you've summarized and assessed a source, you need to ask how it fits into your research. Was this source helpful to you? How does it help you shape your argument? How can you use this source in your research project? Has it changed how you think about your topic?