Writing Philosophy Papers

by Seech, Zachary P.

• ISBN13: 9780495506843
• ISBN10: 0495506842
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-20
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Wadsworth Cengage Learning offers a full range of texts, text-readers, and anthologies for virtually all philosophy, logic, and ethics courses. We are also dedicated to the development and support of the latest educational media and technology for instructors and students. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vi
Introduction	p. viii
First Things First	p. 1
Know the Assignment	p. 1
Know the Criteria for Evaluation	p. 2
Schedule Your Time	p. 3
Types of Philosophy Papers	p. 5
Philosophy Courses and Sample Paper Topics	p. 5
What You Will Find in This Book	p. 7
Thesis Defense Papers	p. 8
Developing a Thesis	p. 8
The Opening and Closing Paragraphs	p. 10
The Body of the Paper	p. 12
Arguing for the Thesis	p. 13
Tone	p. 14
Premises, Conclusions, and Transitions	p. 14
Presenting Other Sides	p. 15
Consistency	p. 16
Special Kinds of Papers	p. 18
Compare-and-Contrast Papers	p. 18
Research Papers	p. 21
Summary Papers and Explanatory Papers	p. 22
Writing and Revising the Paper	p. 25
Getting Started	p. 26
Mapping and Outlining	p. 27
Rough and Final Drafts	p. 30
Plagiarism	p. 31
Responding to Criticism	p. 33
Writing Style	p. 34
Word Processing Tools	p. 35
Language	p. 37
Precision of Expression	p. 37
Overstatement	p. 37
Vagueness	p. 38
Definition	p. 39
Grammar	p. 40
Complete Sentences	p. 40
Agreement between Parts of a Sentence	p. 41
Case	p. 42
Misplaced Sentence Parts	p. 43
Missing Referents	p. 44
Parallelism	p. 44
Punctuation	p. 46
Gender	p. 48
Scholarly Terms and Abbreviations	p. 49
Terms	p. 49
Abbreviations	p. 50
Spelling	p. 50
Commonly Misspelled Words in Philosophy	p. 51
Plurals of Philosophical Terms	p. 52
Capitalization	p. 52
Good Reasoning	p. 54
An Introductory Example	p. 55
Making a Strong Case for Your View	p. 55
Counterexamples and Generalizations	p. 56
Two Kinds of Misdirection	p. 57
Fallacies	p. 57
Two Special Kinds of Evidence	p. 59
Testimonial Evidence	p. 59
Analogical Evidence	p. 61
Internet and Other Research Sources	p. 62
The Internet	p. 62
What You Can Find on the Internet	p. 63
How to Find It	p. 64
How to Evaluate It	p. 65
Where to Find Books Online	p. 67
Journals, Reference Works, and Libraries	p. 67
Reference to Other Sources	p. 72
Bibliography	p. 72
Listing Books	p. 73
Listing Articles in Periodicals	p. 75
Listing Internet Sources	p. 77
Documentation with Footnotes or Endnotes	p. 78
Citing Books: First Reference	p. 78
Citing Articles: First Reference	p. 79
Citing the Internet	p. 80
Second and Subsequent References to Books and Articles	p. 80
Commentary Notes	p. 81
Parenthetical Documentation	p. 82
Other Systems of Documentation	p. 83
A Special Consideration for Using Internet Sources	p. 84
Editing Your Paper	p. 85
Sample Paper with Documentation	p. 94
Formal Patterns of Logic	p. 103
Validity and Soundness	p. 103
"If" Statements and Arguments	p. 106
"All" Statements and Arguments	p. 112
Universal Syllogism	p. 112
Universal-to-Particular Syllogism	p. 113
Bibliography	p. 115
Index	p. 117
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