ENG 105 - Final Research Paper General Overview: For your final writing assignment, you will research one of the recent important Supreme Court Cases. You will learn about both the history of the case as well as the elements that make the case relevant and controversial. While the primary focus of your paper will be to inform the reader about your topic, you may provide your opinion regarding how the court has ruled or should rule on this issue. Your final paper will include a combination of resources from both the Skyline Database and the written Supreme Court decisions, relevant news sources and maybe even blogs. You will provide a thorough background for your topic and discuss the views of both sides of the cases. Requirements: ➢ 6-8 pages (not including the “Works Cited” page) ➢ 6 Academic resources from the Skyline Library Database and other academic and reliable sources ➢ An introduction that prepares the reader for the thesis of the essay ➢ A clearly articulated thesis that establishes the topic and your purpose for the essay ➢ Focused, well developed paragraphs that clearly support the thesis and synthesize your research (You must integrate a variety of summarized, paraphrased, and quoted material from your sources.) ➢ A conclusion that provides a sense of finality and reasserts the thesis. (You may include a section with your opinion at the end of your paper.) ➢ Logical organization ➢ An unbiased and balanced presentation of the issue ➢ Evidence of critical reading, analysis, and writing ➢ Accurate use of MLA Style Citation and format including a “Works Cited” page Due Date: May 25, 2016 Topics include the following cases: 4. Abortion (Whole Women’s Health v. Cole) Process and timeline for your research paper Step 1: ​Think about and decide on a topic for your research. ​Start to do some informal research about your topic. ​Start Date: 4/20/16 Step 2: ​Learn about the Skyline database and begin research​Date: 4/25 & 4/27​ Step 3: ​Write a research proposal for your paper Due Date: 5/4 Step 4: ​Continue research​ONGOING ​ Step 5: ​Create a list of useful resources (working bibliography). Read and annotate each resource. Use these sources to synthesize information for your essay. Create a “Working Bibliography”​Due Date: 5/11 Step 6: ​Create a detailed outline for your essay.​Due Date: 5/16 Step 7: ​Rough Draft​Due Date: 5/18 ​ Step 8: ​Create a peer review draft​Due Date: 5/23 ​Revise and edit your draft. ​Double-check your MLA citation Step 9: ​Complete the final draft. Put portfolio together and turn in.​ Due Date: 5/25 Most companies and organizations have a written code of conduct for all employees. These codes of conduct and codes of ethics establish standards for behavior "– what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. These codes may also specify how to report violations and what might happen when an employee violates these codes "– punishment, per se. Some companies go even further and have a statement of v ...

1. ENG 105 - Final Research Paper
General Overview: For your final writing assignment, you will
research one of the recent important Supreme Court Cases. You
will learn about both the history of the case as well as the
elements that make the case relevant and controversial. While
the primary focus of your paper will be to inform the reader
about your topic, you may provide your opinion regarding how
the court has ruled or should rule on this issue. Your final paper
will include a combination of resources from both the Skyline
Database and the written Supreme Court decisions, relevant
news sources and maybe even blogs. You will provide a
thorough background for your topic and discuss the views of
both sides of the cases.
Requirements:
➢ 6-8 pages (not including the “Works Cited” page)
➢ 6 Academic resources from the Skyline Library Database and
other academic and reliable sources
➢ An introduction that prepares the reader for the thesis of the
essay
➢ A clearly articulated thesis that establishes the topic and your
purpose for the essay
➢ Focused, well developed paragraphs that clearly support the
thesis and synthesize your research (You must integrate a
variety of summarized, paraphrased, and quoted material from
your sources.)
➢ A conclusion that provides a sense of finality and reasserts
the thesis. (You may include a section with your opinion at the
end of your paper.)
➢ Logical organization

2. ➢ An unbiased and balanced presentation of the issue
➢ Evidence of critical reading, analysis, and writing
➢ Accurate use of MLA Style Citation and format including a
“Works Cited” page
Due Date: May 25, 2016
Topics include the following cases:
4. Abortion (Whole Women’s Health v. Cole)
Process and timeline for your research paper
Step 1: Think about and decide on a topic for your research.
Start to do some informal research about your topic.
Start Date: 4/20/16
Step 2: Learn about the Skyline database and begin research
Date: 4/25 & 4/27
Step 3: Write a research proposal for your paper
Due Date: 5/4
Step 4: Continue researchONGOING
Step 5: Create a list of useful resources (working bibliography).
Read and annotate each resource. Use these sources to
synthesize information for your essay. Create a “Working
Bibliography”Due Date: 5/11
Step 6: Create a detailed outline for your essay.Due Date: 5/16
Step 7: Rough DraftDue Date: 5/18
Step 8: Create a peer review draftDue Date: 5/23
Revise and edit your draft.
Double-check your MLA citation

3. Step 9: Complete the final draft. Put portfolio together and turn
in.
Due Date: 5/25
Most companies and organizations have a written code of
conduct for all employees. These codes of conduct and codes of
ethics establish standards for behavior "– what is acceptable and
what is not acceptable. These codes may also specify how to
report violations and what might happen when an employee
violates these codes "– punishment, per se. Some companies go
even further and have a statement of values which is made
known to their external customers and to the public.
Codes of conduct and ethics support six basic values: respect,
responsibility, fairness, caring, trustworthiness, and citizenship.
(Ferrell, O., Fraedrich, J., & Ferrell, L., 2011, p. 224)
We often say that ethics and values start at home. This is very
true! As students and faculty here at ECPI, we have very
defined guidelines and rules for standards of behavior. These
codes are found throughout our catalog and range from the
student honor code to electronic policy and drug policy. You
may have a printed ECPI Catalog, but here is a link to the most
current ECPI Catalog:
http://www.ecpi.edu/services/catalog/ (Links to an external
site.)
Using the catalog, respond to the following:
•Identify one rule or guideline for ethical behavior here at
ECPI.
•Explain how this rule sets a standard for behavior.
•Identify how this rule or guideline addresses (or does not

4. address) current ethical issues found in the workplace.
•Ethical codes of conduct should be revisited every year. What
change or addition would you make to the codes of conduct
found in our catalog?
RESOLVING ETHICAL BUSINESS CHALLENGES*
As Gerard sat down in his expensive new chair, he felt worried.
What had he gotten himself into? How could things have gone
so wrong so fast? It was as if he’d been walking along and a
truck had blindsided him. Gerard had been with Trawlers
Accounting, a medium-sized firm, for several years. His wife,
Vicky, had a job in the pharmaceutical industry, and their first
child was due any day now. The doctor had told her that she
would need to stop work early because hers was a high-risk
pregnancy. So three months before her due date, she asked for
and received a four-month leave of absence. This was great, but
the leave was without pay. Luckily, Gerard had received a
promotion and now headed a department.
Some interesting changes were occurring in the accounting
industry. For example, Gerard’s superior had decided that all
CPAs would take exams to become registered investment
advisers. The rationale for such a new development was simple.
The firm could use its relationships with clients to increase
investment revenues. Because of the long-term nature of these
relationships with many firms and individuals as well as the
implicit sense of honesty that CPAs must bring to their jobs,
clients understood that a violation of so high a trust was
unlikely—or so Gerard’s boss argued. Many of the people in
Gerard’s department didn’t like this new policy; however, some
who had passed the exams had increased their pay by 15
percent. During lunch, one of Gerard’s financial friends
engaged him heatedly.
“What you’re doing, Gerard, is called unfair competition,” the
friend accused him. “Your CPAs have exclusive access to
confidential client taxpayer information, which could give you

5. insight into people’s financial needs. Besides, you could easily
direct clients to mutual funds that you already own in order to
keep your own personal investments afloat. Also, if your people
start chasing commissions and fees on mutual funds that go bad,
your credibility will become suspect, and no one will trust you
again. Plus, your people will now have to keep abreast of
financial, tax, and accounting changes.”
When Gerard got to his office, he found that some of his people
had been recommending a group of mutual funds that Trawlers
had been auditing. Then someone from another of his
company’s accounting clients, CENA Mutual Funds, telephoned.
“What’s the idea of having your people suggest PPI Mutual
Funds when they are in direct competition with us?” the caller
yelled. “We pay you a lot to do our accounting procedures, and
that’s how you reward us? I want to know by the end of the day
if you are going to continue to push our competitor’s product. I
don’t have to tell you that this will directly affect your
department and you. Also, things like this get around the
business circles, if you know what I mean.”
With these words, the caller hung up on Gerard.
QUESTIONS | EXERCISES
1.
Identify the ethical and legal issues of which Gerard needs to be
aware.
2.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each decision
Gerard has made and could make.
3.
Discuss the issue of accounting firms going into the financial
services market.
4.
Discuss the types of groups that are influencing Gerard.