WA2

Code of Ethics

Preamble: The code of ethics for research which shall include human participants is necessary so as to protect the rights and well-being of possible and included informers. This is to act as a guide to keep the research process respectful and ethical, and prevent the encroachment of personal comfort to levels that surpass the wishes of the participant. Following such preset requirements will allow for an arranged understanding of ethical treatment, and will lay out a professional appearance so as to reflect positively on the researcher, professor, and the academic institution under whose name any work will be done.

Research: The nature of the research, as pertaining to human studies, will be limited to questioning their personal experience and knowledge about subjects pertaining to the overall study theme. Questioning will remain respectful, and upon the wishes of the participant the certain steps may be used in order to protect their comfort, which include but are not limited to: exclusion of information, use of material without citing them specifically, and other measures that will help to foster the comfort of the individual, while still trying to maximize the educational benefit. No harm shall intentionally be brought to individuals, and protecting their levels of both physical and mental health as to the best of the researchers ability.

Legal: The research will be in accordance with all laws and regulations of the region under which it is performed. In no way will there be a deliberate breaking of the code of law as written, and research will not cause any harm to individuals so as to make any form of legal action a requirement.

Epilogue: The main focus of the ethical code is to protect all those who will be involved; the researcher, from the possible negative outcomes should boundaries be pushed beyond the point of acceptable behavior and the individual whose rights and just as importantly, that the subject is not mistreated or brought to harm through the research method. Due to the peaceful and entirely voluntary method through which the research will be conducted, risks will be, at the most, minimal and leaves little room for error or intentional damage that would be irreparable.

Work Cited

The following organizations respective codes of ethics were used as a basis and example which this code was influenced by, though no information was directly quoted.

<span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">American Anthropological Association

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 200%; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological Association, approved June 1998 

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">CCCC Guidelines for Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Human Subjects

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; line-height: 200%; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Conference on College Composition and Communication, November 2003 

Back to Table of Contents