Business Ethics and Virtue Ethics

Background

In the Module 3 SLP, we turn to information literacy: You will be exploring the resources and use of the TUI Library. Next, you will be learning how to evaluate the quality of your sources.

Required Reading

First, please review the following list of websites. Sites such as those below (e.g., cheat sites, pay term paper sites) are prohibited from use in graduate-level papers. Please note that this is not an all-inclusive list. Also, please note that Wikipedia.org is included on this list.

Assignment

Write a 2-3 page paper, in which you do the following:

Evaluate several journal articles and websites, and determine whether each source is scholarly or non-scholarly.

Keys to the Assignment

Locate the following articles in the TUI Library using ProQuest (or EBSCO if you cannot find in ProQuest).

Using the Cornell University website as a guide, perform a critical evaluation of each article or source, explaining why each of the articles or sources below is a scholarly or non-scholarly resource.

For each source below, give as many reasons as you can as to why the source is scholarly or non-scholarly.

ESSAY SAMPLE:

Module 3 SLP

Borgerson, J.L., Schroeder, J.E., Magnusson, M.E., and F. Magnusson. (2009). Corporate communication, Ethics, and Operational Identity: a Case Study of Benetton. Business Ethics: A European Review, 18(3): 209-223

Borgerson and her colleagues have compiled extensive research on their topic utilizing qualitative analysis. Their article was published in Business Ethics: A European Review specifically by Blackwell Publishing, which is a well-known publisher. The authors divided their research into several subheadings in order to demonstrate to the reader how their research was performed and what their external sources revealed.