Ethical Frameworks
This 8-syllable philosophy instructs us to make moral decisions based on what will create the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
What is utilitarianism?
This substance was originally invented to be a pesticide; its later use for something worse is an example of a major NHV course concept
What is Zyklon B?
This shape is often used to describe three important parts of any argument.
What is a triangle?
This unit of text is important in giving writing "form."
What is a paragraph?
This project is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence.
What is the moral machine project?
This philosopher believed in "moral" (or "categorical") imperatives and that certain things, like lying, are always wrong.
Who is Kant?
This model helps us consider who or what we owe ethical treatment.
What is the moral sphere?
On her 8 Qualities of Good Writing slideshow, Kim uses photos of this animal to try to capture the essence of each quality.
What are dogs? (Will accept, what are puppies?)
This writer says that no one can write a good first draft.
Who is Anne Lamott?
This groundbreaking film that was a weekly bonus is made entirely of un- narrated clips from the Cold War era.
What is The Atomic Cafe?
This philosopher believed in the golden mean, or finding the "just right" place between two extremes of behavior.
Who is Aristotle?
What is Cicero's Creed?
Mood, anecdote, quotation, and surprise are types of this element of a piece of writing.
What are leads, or what are introductions?
One of the most common errors in student writers is this, in which two complete sentences are connected with a comma
What is a comma splice?
This high school chemistry teacher helped us explore some ethical concepts as one of the weekly bonuses.
Who is Walter White?
This form of transportation is used in a famous thought experiment for utilitarianism.
What is a trolley?
Aristotle said we learn virtuous behavior from emulating these people.
What are moral exemplars?
This friendly Mines librarian is available to help you with NHV research (and design research and other types of research, too!)
Who is Brianna Buljung? (Will accept who is Brianna?)
Not really wanting to write something, or not caring about what you are writing, can result in a lack of this main characteristic of good writing.
What is honesty?
(Also will accept: what is voice?)
An early question in this course involved a hypothetical situation about changing a report about what type of building?
What is a shopping mall?
This principle says that if we can't apply a moral rule to everyone, it's not ethical.
What is the universality principle, or what is a categorical imperative?
Sandy Woodson uses a story about sharing a pie with her siblings to help illustrate this concept about fairness.
What is the veil of ignorance?
This type of source is almost always authored, reviewed, and published by university professors, graduate students, and/or researchers.
What is a scholarly source? (Or, what is an academic source?)
NHV aSSumes you'll use this baSic reading and writing Skill over and over in your college career and beyond, which iS why it'S emphasized in an early major paper.
What is summarizing? (Or what is a summary?)
This "theory" is a framework that helps pinpoint what an argument is about: for example, what a word means or what action we should take,
What is stasis theory?