P3 Blog

For this project, I will probably go outside topics in Ethics in Higher Education. I still do not know what topic I want to write about specifically, but my choices so far are either the history of architecture or the effects of alternative sources of energy. The reason I chose these topics is because I have passion for architecture and I enjoy all aspects of it and for the impacts of alternative energy is because I have done quite some research on it and written papers and I think it would be easy for me to develop a research paper about it. At the moment I am leaning more towards alternative energy simply because I have vast knowledge about it and it’s still a debatable topic of our time. The question I mainly have is “Does alternative energy bring more positive than negative changes to our lives?”. The overall aim is to show whether or not the alternative energies that currently exists are a viable change for the current form of energies that we use. Potential stakeholders for this issues can be the people who work at electricity companies and generally every person who has to pay for such services. It seems logical that mostly owners and maybe those who work power plants will be resistant stakeholders because they can either lose their job or lose a considerable amount of money because it will not be as profitable.. The average person would probably be more inclined towards alternative energies as it would lower costs in general. I would rather persuade the resistant stakeholder to use these alternative energies since they are who have most to lose and it can be a hard transition. My main objective of this research paper is not necessarily to persuade stakeholders to change their opinion, but rather do a well-documented paper and let the reader decide by him or herself if changing to alternative energies is the best decision, or maybe even encourage other to try to find different types to create energy and use it in our everyday lives. I have quite a few concerns for P3 to be honest. Length being the biggest one. Generally, when I write papers I tend to be very concise, especially since English is my second language, and trying to achieve my purpose and having such an amount of length does make slightly worried. Sometimes it can be an obstacle to get to a required amount of words but I think that starting early and going to the writing center for some assistance can help me out to overcome this. Another concern that I have is the amount of time that we have. There’s still like 5 weeks or so left which doesn’t sound bad, but when you have daily homework and tests every week, almost everything new becomes a bit overwhelming, or so it seems at least for me. Other than these factors, I am not worried about anything else since there is a large amount of information in books, articles and the internet to complete this project.