Final Research Essay HCC/English 1302 Your final assignment, a research paper, will incorporate the skills you have developed throughout this course and will develop new skills in research. For this assignment, you will: • Generate your own personalized topic based upon the prompts. • Make an argument about your topic. This argument must be clearly stated in a working thesis statement. All body paragraphs must be focused and organized while clearly relating back to your thesis. • Research sources appropriate to your topic and effectively use those sources as evidence to support and prove your thesis. • Cite all sources using MLA Format. Your paper must include proper parenthetical citations and a Works Cited page. Your research paper must be 8-10 pages, typed, double-spaced, in 12-point font, and in MLA format. *A Few Notes about Required Sources: Your sources must be reputable and reliable. Good sources include the following:  newspapers (San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, etc.)  magazines (Time, Newsweek, etc.)  books  scholarly journals  Remember that a well-researched paper will include a variety of sources. Also remember that for academic papers, books and scholarly journals tend to provide the best information. All of your sources must be from current (2000 or later) books, articles, and websites. Due Dates and Other Information Important for this Paper 1. Monday, April 9: You must submit your topic for approval form. At this point, your topic may be broad. We will work in class on narrowing and focusing topics. 2. Wednesday, April 11: Research Proposal Due 3. Wednesday, April 18: Annotated Bibliography of at least five possible sources. It is mandatory that you meet each of the three requirements above. Five points will be deducted from your final grade for each of the requirements missed. 4. 5. a peer revision workshop on this day. Bring copies (2) of your essay In Class Workshop Second draft due. Turn in both drafts of your essay, along with the revision response forms your peers completed for you. Late second drafts will receive no credit, but I will give you as much feedback as I can in the time allotted. Failure to turn in a second draft will result in automatic failure of this course. Wednesday, April 25: Research Day (Class Will Not Meet) Monday, April 28: First draft due. (No late first drafts accepted) You will participate in Wednesday, May 02: Wednesday, May 09: Week 2 Assignment Using the Grantham University Library or an internet search, research an organization that has struggled due to a lack of measurement and evaluation within the workplace. In your paper, analyze the role success case methodology would play in improving organizational success. In addition, consider how the four keys of transformational performance measurement may impact this business. Surname 3 Name: Instr.

1. Final Research Essay
HCC/English 1302
Your final assignment, a research paper, will incorporate the
skills you have developed throughout this course and
will develop new skills in research. For this assignment, you
will:
• Generate your own personalized topic based upon the prompts.
• Make an argument about your topic. This argument must be
clearly stated in a working thesis statement.
All body paragraphs must be focused and organized while
clearly relating back to your thesis.
• Research sources appropriate to your topic and effectively use
those sources as evidence to support
and prove your thesis.
• Cite all sources using MLA Format. Your paper must include
proper parenthetical citations and a Works
Cited page.
Your research paper must be 8-10 pages, typed, double-spaced,
in 12-point font, and in MLA
format.
*A Few Notes about Required Sources: Your sources must be
reputable and reliable. Good sources
include the following:
Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, etc.)

2. Remember that a well-researched paper will include a variety of
sources. Also remember that for academic papers,
books and scholarly journals tend to provide the best
information. All of your sources must be from current (2000
or later) books, articles, and websites.
Due Dates and Other Information Important for this Paper
1. Monday, April 9: You must submit your topic for approval
form. At this point, your topic may be broad.
We will work in class on narrowing and focusing topics.
2. Wednesday, April 11: Research Proposal Due
3. Wednesday, April 18: Annotated Bibliography of at
least five possible sources.
It is mandatory that you meet each of the three requirements
above. Five points will be deducted from
your final grade for each of the requirements missed.
4.
5.
a peer revision workshop on this day. Bring copies (2) of your
essay
In Class Workshop
Second draft due. Turn in both drafts of your essay, along with
the
revision response forms your peers completed for you. Late
second drafts

3. will receive no credit, but I will give you as much feedback as I
can in the time allotted.
Failure to turn in a second draft will result in automatic failure
of this course.
Wednesday, April 25: Research Day (Class Will Not Meet)
Monday, April 28: First draft due. (No late first drafts
accepted) You will participate in
Wednesday, May 02:
Wednesday, May 09:
Week 2 Assignment
Using the Grantham University Library or an internet search,
research an organization that has struggled due to a lack of
measurement and evaluation within the workplace. In your
paper, analyze the role success case methodology would play in
improving organizational success. In addition, consider how the
four keys of transformational performance measurement may
impact this business.
Surname 3
Name:
Instructor’s Name:
Institution:
Date:
The Notion of Right and Wrong
Introduction
In the society, it can be observed either in individual or social
lives of people that the actions of human beings are primarily
regarded as either being right or wrong. When carrying out any

4. activity, every individual tries their best to gauge their actions
in their own perspective on the concept of right or wrong and
the same is reflected in the society (Hollnagel 78). In the
analysis of actions of an individual and the character, they are
tallied in accordance with the determined concepts of wrong and
right which are primarily discussed and studied in ethics.
Ethics is a branch of knowledge under the philosophy of moral.
According to philosophy, morality is what considered right in
the society while the contrary is considered as immoral
(Pojman, Louis and James 108). The concept of right and wrong
used in the society to distinguish what is morally acceptable in
the society from what is not accepted is the subject to the
societal conduct and behavior. In the society, people are judged
and valued with respect to their conduct of behavior. The ability
of a person to carry out him or herself in a respectable manner
is attributed to the good actions of the person while the wrong
actions portrayed in the society are used as a foundation for
criticism and negative judgment of an individual (Hollnagel 87).
The concept of good and bad is similar to ethics in that, it
varies from one society to the other. In this context, it has been
established that what is perceived as right in one society may be
considered very wrong in another society and vice versa. The
determination of the right and wrong in the society is attributed
to the traditions and norms of the society.
The most significant thing, however, is the determination of
whether the social values and norms of the society are humane
or not and whether they conform to the basic human rights in
the society (Stevenson 157). This is with regards to the fact that
in certain societies, some conduct and activities may be
considered as morally acceptable and therefore right but may be
very discriminative in accordance with the law and basic human
rights as observed in some societies around the world. The main
question is whether such actions can be considered ethical or
not in the society.
Regarding the concept of right and wrong, many people confuse
between behaving in accordance with social conventions, the

5. law, religious beliefs and the ethics. Ethics is a stand-alone
concept that is a set of principles and concepts guiding the
human beings in the determination of the types of behavior that
harms or help sentient creatures. Globalization has however led
to the development of a universal code of ethics useful in the
differentiation of the bad from wrong in the world and despite
being implemented to a limited extent, the universal code of
ethics tends to invigorate the human conduct in line with the
international concepts of betterment and human rights.
According to the universal ethical standards, any action that
harms others in the society is regarded as wrong while those
that do not cause any form of harm are considered right. The
universal ethics standards affirm that the value of the life of any
individual comes first. The promulgation and implementation of
universal ethics to all societies in the world are not possible due
to the immense diversities in different societies courtesy of
cultural differences and religious beliefs and the uneven
development of social lives.
The determination of the right and the wrong in the society is
mainly a subject to the culture and religion which are also
considered as the main sources of ethics. Most of the ethical
values are derived from the basic teachings of the religions
present in the behavior of their Prophets, lives or the holy
scriptures especially the followers of different religion.
Concerning this, majority of the world’s religion define clearly
the behavior that is only accepted to that and that which they
consider right and to those that act contrary to the religious
teachings, the religion has its own system of punishing the
wrongdoers in the society to keep the ethical standards and
behaviors as stipulated in the teachings (Cooley 237). The laws
established by the legal and political institutions in the modern
society are aligned to the ensure the ethical behavior of people
in the society, however, besides the limitation of the legal
institutions to implement fully the law in its true nature, they
are not capable of implementing the ethical values fully in some
scenarios, they may contradict them

6. Conclusion
The differentiation of the right from the wrong in the society
depends on one’s personality and the environment where the
action is conducted. The conscience of right and wrong is
within every individual only that people’s perception and views
vary. The societal norms and traditions stipulate what is morally
accepted and what is shunned by specific population in a given
geographical area and as such facilitating socialization and
peaceful coexistence in the society through the encouragement
of good actions, behavior, and conduct of the members of the
society.
Works Cited
Cooley, Charles Horton. Human nature and the social order.
Routledge, 2017.
Hollnagel, Erik. The ETTO principle: efficiency-thoroughness
trade-off: why things that go right sometimes go wrong. CRC
Press, 2017.
Pojman, Louis P., and James Fieser. Cengage Advantage Ethics:
Discovering Right and Wrong. Nelson Education, 2017.
Stevenson, Nicholas. The Transformation of the Media:
Globalisation, Morality and Ethics. Routledge, 2014.