1. What are the facts?
Buffy is enrolled in a Distance Learning sociology course.
Buffy works full-time at a local hospital.
Buffy is a single mother of five year old twin sons.
Buffy has a term paper due in two days and needs a passing grade in order to pass the class.
Professor Snidely has specified that the paper must be her original work.
Jim Bob is a student in the same class.
Jim Bob has offered to “tweak” his paper and give it to Buffy so she may submit it as her own work.
2. What are Buffy’s options (choices)? What values must Buffy weigh in considering her options?
Buffy takes the paper Jim Bob offers her and uses it for her term paper.
Buffy does not take Jim Bob’s term paper and decides not to do the paper at all.
Buffy takes Jim Bob’s term paper and revises it a second time. …show more content…
Buffy doesn’t take the paper and can ask Professor Snidely for an extension.
Buffy takes Jim Bob’s paper and can ask Professor Snidely for an extension and during the extension “tweak” Jim Bob’s paper and make it her own.
The values Buffy must weigh in considering her options are her family values, in what this is going to teach her children and how this will affect them, her vision of her education, and the accountability to her assignment weather Professor Snidely accepts it with or without problems. Another set of values Buffy must consider are balancing her home and school life and the value of a hard earned education.
3. What are Jim Bob’s options? What values must Jim Bob weigh in considering his options?
Jim Bob can do Buffy’s paper and “tweak” it like he
Buffy is enrolled in a Distance Learning sociology course.
Buffy works full-time at a local hospital.
Buffy is a single mother of five year old twin sons.
Buffy has a term paper due in two days and needs a passing grade in order to pass the class.
Professor Snidely has specified that the paper must be her original work.
Jim Bob is a student in the same class.
Jim Bob has offered to “tweak” his paper and give it to Buffy so she may submit it as her own work.
2. What are Buffy’s options (choices)? What values must Buffy weigh in considering her options?
Buffy takes the paper Jim Bob offers her and uses it for her term paper.
Buffy does not take Jim Bob’s term paper and decides not to do the paper at all.
Buffy takes Jim Bob’s term paper and revises it a second time. …show more content…
Buffy doesn’t take the paper and can ask Professor Snidely for an extension.
Buffy takes Jim Bob’s paper and can ask Professor Snidely for an extension and during the extension “tweak” Jim Bob’s paper and make it her own.
The values Buffy must weigh in considering her options are her family values, in what this is going to teach her children and how this will affect them, her vision of her education, and the accountability to her assignment weather Professor Snidely accepts it with or without problems. Another set of values Buffy must consider are balancing her home and school life and the value of a hard earned education.
3. What are Jim Bob’s options? What values must Jim Bob weigh in considering his options?
Jim Bob can do Buffy’s paper and “tweak” it like he