Advice

DONT FORGET TO DO YOUR BLOGS!

It is as easy as that to get a 100 for your blog grade, but you are screwed if you forget to do them! The only way I remembered was to set a weekly alarm on my phone to remind me. It only takes 5 min normally to do your blog and voila, easy A. This pretty much goes for Prof Rogers entire class though, just dont forget to go and do your stuff and you should get your A for your 3 hours. P.S. If you are actually reading this, tell Angie hey for me!!!!

Ethics

I did not like this ethics project to be honest. It was just hard for me to find good documents that are original about the historical lapses. The most interesting thing to reflect on was the amount of crazy and ridiculous things humans do to others. People will experiment on women and children, or just mass murder others with no problem. I did find it interesting that the guilty parties would write in the style they did, very "around the bush" if you may. The indirect approach is like a dead give away of them being shady and doing bad things. Other than the class examples, i didnt see any other good examples but im sure they are all the same.

Unethical Issues

I am sure every blog you have read has said this same thing about the stats, those are crazy! I would have never thought that 3 in 4 full time workers would encounter "ethical lapses" or that 1 in 10 believe a scandal or ethical lapse is going on at their company right now! I can definitely understand the being distracted stat because of course people are going to be distracted when they see or hear about the shady stuff going on at their work. They could be worried about stock plans or job loss. I was also a little bit surprised at the division of people's thoughts on how to handle the situations that arise. I would never think to handle some unethical action myself. I would always take it to my supervisor or manager because being caught up in something like that is the last thing I would need. I also understand why people choose not to report the issues because the system of reporting is not adequate.

Web vs Paper

I do not think that the two are that different. I think the main thing is your audience because that decides how formal and strict you need to follow grammar guidelines. If my audience for this blog was an executive deciding if i get a job i would be more formal, but since this is just a weekly blog i am not as concerned about it being grammatically correct. The one difference that stands out the most for me is that i can type a lot faster than writing so i don't get as frustrated when having to write a lot. also when i write online i have websites that are easily accessible to get ideas or even synonyms and random things like that. I think the most important thing to remember when transferring to the web is to make sure is very readable. maybe that means having a lot of space, headings and subheadings, and being concise.