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Templates for presentation and commentary

Presentation of case
Activity Description
Introductory Summary In this part, quickly (1-2 minutes) restate the question and summarize your group's answer. You may even outline how you will justify your answer.
Developed Presentation In this part, explain and justify in detail the answer to your question, making references to the original question and summary. Be sure to include ethical relevance (tests, values), avoid irrelevance, and provide a short account of how others might disagree with you.
Conclusion Summarize your argument into 3 or 4 points. Acknowledge different points of view but summarize reasons for your own. Conclude by thanking the other team, judges, and audience.
Commentary on other team's presentation
Activity Description>
Summary Summarize the other team's presentation by boiling it down into 3 or 4 points. Then comment on these points highlight areas of agreement and disagreement. Be critical but also be respectful and fair in your criticism. Have you fairly represented the other team's position or have you caricatured it? Have you addressed your criticisms to the argument of the other team without personalizing them?
Conclusion Conclude by thanking the other team and summarizing your agreement and disagreement with their key points.
Criteria Be sure to address the four criteria in your Commentary: intelligibility, ethical relevance, ethical irrelevance, and moral imagination.

Scoring criteria

  • Intelligibility includes three skills or abilities: (A) the ability to construct and compare multiple arguments representing multiple viewpoints; (B) the ability to construct arguments and provide reasons that are clear, coherent, and factually correct; (C) evidence of realizing the virtue of reasonableness by formulating and presenting value integrative solutions?
  • Integrating Ethical Relevance includes three skills: (A) presenting positions that are clearly reversible between stakeholders; (B) identifying and weighing key consequences of positions considered; (C) developing positions that integrate values like integrity, responsibility, reasonableness, honesty, humility, and justice.
  • Avoiding ethical irrelevance involves focusing your comments on those aspects of the case that are directly relevant to the ethical import of the case and the question. Complicating the presentation with commentary on legal, political, financial, or technical aspects of the case can pull your argument off its tracks unless you clearly show the audience how these matters relate to the ethical aspects of the case and question.
  • Moral Imagination and Creativity demonstrate four skill sets: (A) ability to clearly formulate and frame ethical issues and problems; (B) ability to provide multiple framings of a given situation; (C) ability to identify and integrate conflicting stakeholders and stakes; (D) ability to generate solutions and positions that are non-obvious, i.e., go beyond what is given in the situation.

Format for in-depth analysis

1. Group, team-written projects are to be 4-5 pages in length, double spaced, with standard 1-inch margins,and typewritten. This does not include documentation, appendices, and other notes.

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Source:  OpenStax, Using the ethics bowl to integrate ethics into the business and professional curriculum. OpenStax CNX. Dec 20, 2009 Download for free at http://legacy.cnx.org/content/col10411/1.2
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