Cox, Matthew B.Melton, Meghan Jessica2024-01-162024-01-162023-122023-12-04December 2http://hdl.handle.net/10342/13257The following report centers on ethics instructional methods in undergraduate professional writing courses. The literature review covers the instructional practices favored by professors of upper-level and graduate professional writing courses, such as interspersing ethics throughout the semester and implementing service-learning projects. The primary research, however, focuses on the ethics instructional methods used in lower-level (freshman and sophomore) professional writing courses. This study’s primary research consists of four instructor interviews and a content analysis of two professors’ course materials. The courses featured in this study are East Carolina University’s ENGL 2201: Writing about the Disciplines, ENGL 3040: Introduction to Professional Writing, and ENGL 3880: Writing for Business and Industry. Though many of the pedagogical approaches used in upper-level professional writing courses translated to those of lower-level courses, nuances emerged for the instruction of ethics when utilized with younger students. Following a discussion of these nuances, suggestions for ethics instructional practices for professors of lower-level professional writing courses and recommendations for future research are discussed.application/pdfenethicsinstructional methodspedagogylower-level undergraduate writing coursesMaster's Thesis2024-01-11