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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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First Things First | |
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Know the Assignment | |
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Know the Criteria for Evaluation | |
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Schedule Your Time | |
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Types of Philosophy Papers | |
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Philosophy Courses and Sample Paper Topics | |
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What You Will Find in This Book | |
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Thesis Defense Papers | |
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Developing a Thesis | |
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The Opening and Closing Paragraphs | |
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The Body of the Paper | |
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Arguing for the Thesis | |
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Tone | |
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Premises, Conclusions, and Transitions | |
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Presenting Other Sides | |
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Consistency | |
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Special Kinds of Papers | |
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Compare-and-Contrast Papers | |
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Research Papers | |
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Summary Papers and Explanatory Papers | |
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Writing and Revising the Paper | |
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Getting Started | |
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Mapping and Outlining | |
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Rough and Final Drafts | |
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Plagiarism | |
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Responding to Criticism | |
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Writing Style | |
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Word Processing Tools | |
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Language | |
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Precision of Expression | |
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Overstatement | |
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Vagueness | |
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Definition | |
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Grammar | |
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Complete Sentences | |
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Agreement between Parts of a Sentence | |
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Case | |
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Misplaced Sentence Parts | |
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Missing Referents | |
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Parallelism | |
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Punctuation | |
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Gender | |
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Scholarly Terms and Abbreviations | |
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Terms | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Spelling | |
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Commonly Misspelled Words in Philosophy | |
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Plurals of Philosophical Terms | |
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Capitalization | |
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Good Reasoning | |
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An Introductory Example | |
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Making a Strong Case for Your View | |
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Counterexamples and Generalizations | |
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Two Kinds of Misdirection | |
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Fallacies | |
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Two Special Kinds of Evidence | |
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Testimonial Evidence | |
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Analogical Evidence | |
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Internet and Other Research Sources | |
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The Internet | |
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What You Can Find on the Internet | |
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How to Find It | |
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How to Evaluate It | |
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Where to Find Books Online | |
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Journals, Reference Works, and Libraries | |
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Reference to Other Sources | |
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Bibliography | |
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Listing Books | |
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Listing Articles in Periodicals | |
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Listing Internet Sources | |
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Documentation with Footnotes or Endnotes | |
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Citing Books: First Reference | |
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Citing Articles: First Reference | |
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Citing the Internet | |
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Second and Subsequent References to Books and Articles | |
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Commentary Notes | |
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Parenthetical Documentation | |
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Other Systems of Documentation | |
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A Special Consideration for Using Internet Sources | |
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Editing Your Paper | |
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Sample Paper with Documentation | |
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Formal Patterns of Logic | |
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Validity and Soundness | |
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"If" Statements and Arguments | |
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"All" Statements and Arguments | |
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Universal Syllogism | |
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Universal-to-Particular Syllogism | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |