I put the instructions here but I have also uploaded the assignment instructions below as well. This is the final paper so therefore, I also uploaded the paper outline that was previously submitted along with the feedback that my professor gave me on the outline.
Final Draft.
When you
write your final draft, you need to correct anything I told you to fix about
your outline. Other than that, your main job is to fill in the explanations of
your objections and replies. When you have fully explained your objections and
replies, you may find that you do not have space for all of them within the
700-word limit. Be as concise as you can, but if you must, you can drop your
weakest objections and replies. Keep your best material. If you need to add a
couple sentences more to the Introduction or Conclusion, in order to make them
read more smoothly, you may.
Format and Other
Guidelines.
1.
Use 12-pt. Times New Roman font.
2.
1.5 line spacing.
3.
Length: 500-700 words (not including title,
footnotes, etc.).
4.
In the top left corner of the paper, please put
your name, course and section, and a word count (not including footnotes and
title).
5.
Please do not put your name anywhere else on the
paper. This helps me grade anonymously.
6.
Remove introductory fluff: “This is a hotly
debated issue,” etc.
7.
Don’t use contractions (like “don’t”) or the
first-person (“I think,” etc).
8.
Do not repeat each premise before objecting to
it. Don’t say, “Premise 1 says XYZ. But XYZ can’t be true because….” We already
know what Premise 1 says; we read it at the beginning. Just write “One
objection to Premise 1 is that….”
9.
Each paragraph should consist of 3-5 (sometimes
more) sentences.
DO
NOT USE RHETORICAL QUESTIONS. This is a rhetorical question: “How
could anyone decide what’s right for the whole world?” It’s still a
rhetorical question if you mistakenly punctuate it with a period instead
of a question mark: “How could anyone decide what’s right for the whole
world.” Write these as statements: “No one can decide what’s right for the
world.”
Do not
use uncited quotations or ideas, even from the book. If an objection or
reply is one which was brought up in the book, then cite the page number.
Get
some serious proofreading from a friend. Most of our papers have major
proofreading issues: sentence fragments, incomplete sentences, poor word
choice, misspellings, and punctuation problems.
Refer
to the authors by their last names, not their first names. And spell their
names correctly.
Use
the present tense, not the past tense, to talk about the essay. “Primoratz
says that…” not “Primoratz said.”
15.
Italicize book titles. Put chapter or essay
titles in quotation marks.
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