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.
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RESEARCHED ARGUMENT
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:
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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 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.”
•
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.
“I believe that the question of political identity is crucial and that the attempt to
construct citizens’ 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.”
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The Research Question (#1 above) which can take the form of a stated problem (“In this
essay I want to interrogate the ways ideology informs our identity-constructs”), or an actual
question (“In what ways does ideology determine our identity?) This is the single most
important component of your writing.
“How 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?”
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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.
“These 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.”
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 “ping-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 “conclusion” 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 essay—MLA, APA, or Chicago Manual)
(Attach an Abstract as a separate page, single spaced, with your essay—it should immediately
precede your full text).
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