Overview: 

The purpose of this project is to give you an opportunity to examine and evaluate a specific organization's behavior from an ethical and social responsibility view point.  This Project is broken into 6 parts to be completed over 6 weeks.

Week 1: Write an introduction and discuss why you choose this particular organization.

Week 2: Prepare a summary of your research.

Week 3: Prepare a summary of a personal interview or personal commentary.

Week 4: Write a draft of the paper.           

Week 5: Revise the draft using input from both your instructor and your peers.  

Week 6: Submit your final version for grading.

Project Details:

 Design your report for an adult audience using a formal academic writing style. The paper must follow all APA formatting requirements including the requirements for in-text citations and references. Information on Using APA is available in your Course Materials folder.

Individual Research Project: Part II Instructions:

 Your goal for this week's assignment is to capture information about resources - books, articles, websites and the like - that you may want to use when you sit down to write your paper.  Because your paper is about corporate responsibility you will want to identify sources, in addition to those about the organization that you have selected, about ethics or ethical standards. Record basic information about the resource (author, title, publisher, date, etc.) that will help you prepare your reference list.  Also, you want to capture notes about what the author says (content) and whether or not you think this resource is a work of quality (assessing the credibility).

1.    Identify at least six quality resources (books, periodicals, websites, etc.) that address the history, background, and overview of the company and the behavior you are examining.

2.    Prepare a one to two (1-2) paragraph annotation for each of your six sources.  Your annotation should include a description of the information provided within the resource and an evaluation of its quality and/or credibility.  The source citation must follow the guidelines established in the APA style guide. 

Additional Resources:

Additional resources for conducting and producing your research project are available in the document "Individual Research Project Resources" located in your Course Materials folder.