Teaching Ethics Through Student Written Poetry

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In consideration of the age old question about where and how to begin teaching ethics to students, this paper looks at whether student written poetry might be an effective tool to teach the importance of living in an ethical manner.

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"Gibelman , Gelman , and Fast (1999) conducted what they called a quasi-experiment. They created a specific set of criteria for a research paper, based on course content in a social work graduate school program. Then they took an actual student-written paper, one bought "off-the-shelf" from a "paper mill" and a custom-written paper. The study doesn't say if the same service was used for both of the bought papers. The next step was to send the three variations to professors around the country for grading. It is interesting to note that the most well-received paper was the student-written one where the writer had actually attended the class the paper was for. The custom-written paper was the next best graded. These researchers suggest that the student written paper was most acceptable because the student had information and insight into what the instructor required for the paper that could only be gained from attending classes. Instructor formulate the parameters of essays and research papers to make specific determinations about student knowledge and ability."

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