• Due at the beginning of the last class, in person.  See, About Assignments.

Suggested procedure for assembling your collected material (See, card method.)
1. Do the cover [check your last one to see if you can improve it.]
2. Do the Works Cited page. [It goes at the end, of course, but do it first to make sure it's right.]

• Make sure you know how to cite web sites if you used them.

• Integrate all references into one MLA-style alphabetized list.

  Try these for local information/statistics/definitions

• Government of Canada           * Government of Quebec

• Canadian Online Explorer CANOE

5. Analysis:  Say where the (5 different) theories originated (dates, citations) and what their inventor [dates?] hoped to accomplish with them. If they are not easy to understand, get another opinion from an 'easier' book.
Two different citations for each theory is good insurance. (One in the discoverer's words, another with a clarification or example from another person.)

 
• Deontologies: [briefly state and apply 3 of them to the action, pro and con]
• Kant's 'Categorical Imperative' [Best to go to Kant's writing and/or the Reserved books.]
• Any other deontology such as Rawls' Theory of Justice, or WD Ross' theory.
• One religious argument:  Your own religion or another relevant one using appropriate scriptural references MLA style. (A concordance will help.)  If you mention a historical founder, there must be appropriate dates.

 
• Teleologies: [briefly, state and apply to the action, pro and con]
• Utilitarianism, parts a. and b
                  Re-read your notes/ textbook, then check reserved books to review John Stuart Mill and his theory [with his dates.]
                  Look up Jeremy Bentham             "     "                  " then, apply the hedonistic calculus to the parties involved in the action and describe how you do it.
 
• Any other useful-to-your-action teleological theory (Look at a few other teleological theories. I recommend your textbook / the books on reserve.)
                 Choose one [theory besides utilitarianism] that seems interesting and useful.  Then, apply your other theory of choice to the action           "

7. Criticism: If that is not really what YOU would do, why or why not?  Maybe you left something out, then?

Finally, check format, English.  Remove excess words, before stapling your paper:

• Read it aloud to yourself & catch spelling/typos, too.
• Is there an in-text [parenthetical MLA-style] citation for every fact?
• If you are not a native-speaker, get one [a buddy] who is, to help fix it.
• Get rid of every unnecessary word.
• Reset margins if there is a big wasted area.
• Number pages [second page of the text onward, but not cover or Works Cited page.]
• Staple top left.  [No extra covers of any kind.]
• Hand it in in person, on time.

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