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Question 1: Begin your paper with a brief introductory paragraph that clearly states your goals, thesis, andmethod. State what metaethical theory you are defending, the issue in applied ethics you areaddressing, the conclusion(s) you want to defend.

Question 2: Next, provide a lengthy and detailed defense of the metaethical theory you defended inDiscussion: Compare and Contrast Metaethical Theories. This will likely reflect what youargued for in your thread and the feedback that you received from the professor and/orclassmates who responded to your thread. Here you can go into much more detail than you couldin the discussion, which was limited to 600 wrds. If you have changed your mind sinceDiscussion: Compare and Contrast Metaethical Theories and wish to defend a differenttheory, you may do so. This section of the Capstone Essay Assignment would be roughly halfof your paper (three to four pages).

Question 3: Next, proceed to the applied ethics issue that you discussed in your Discussion: EthicalApplication thread. Here you should greatly expand upon your argument. Add detail, nuance,and argumentation, providing a fairly complete and comprehensive application based on thetheory you defend in the first half of the paper. You may illustrate the application with real-lifeexamples, but please do not fill your paper with anecdotes. You should anticipate possibleobjections to your approach to the issue and respond to them in an objective and informedmanner. (For ideas on how others might object to your approach, a good place to begin would beyour classmate's reply to your thread, but you need not stop there. Many books and articles havebeen published on issues in applied ethics, and these can provide a wealth of possible argumentsrelevant to every issue.) You are encouraged to use quotes from sources as a way to support yourarguments, but quotes should not make up more than one and a half pages of your essay.Your conclusion should reflect what you have argued in your thesis. It should recap what youhave accomplished and how you have accomplished it.