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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 | |