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examples or otherwise elaborate, yet you must still be as concise as possible – unnecessary words or information will distract and confuse your reader. sIn order to strengthen your argument, anticipate and answer objections to it. In most philosophy assignments, this will be an essential part of your paper; it helps support your main argument
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concerned if the topics referred to in the examples below are unfamiliar to you; the material is meant to guide you through a process that is applicable to most essays, regardless of the content. Finally, a word of caution: this guide is not intended to be a one-stop solution to all of your essay-related problems.
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- Ï.Ï Authors, date and page numbers
- Ï.} Typesetting
- k.Ï _e introduction
- k.} Conclusion
- k.k References
- k. Dos and don’ts
- .Ï Choosing a question
- .} Reading lists
New College, Oxford Ï th August } aÏ In tutorials and classes I have found myself repeating the same instructions and scribbling the same comments in the (too narrow) margins of tutorial essays again and again. To save time and ink, I started to write them up. I hope that you, too, ûnd these notes useful, whether you are preparing your ûrst essay f...
You should print your name and the date on any of your essays – and, generally, on most of your documents, except blackmail and denunciation letters. _e pages should be numbered. On some evenings I print out about ten essays. I become very easily confused if most of them have no name or page numbers on them. At the time of writing this, I have ûve ...
To keep me happy, you only need to follow the following two rules: Ï. Use ÏÏpt or Ï}pt textsize. Do not double space the lines of your text. }. Leave ample margins le and right for my comments. _ere should not be more than 9 –Ê acharacters (including spaces) in your lines. _e document you are reading conforms to these rules. You do not have to read...
If students have no clue what they should write as an introduction, they usually emphasise the importance of the topic: For centuries personal identity has always been a central and widely discussed problem. _e problem has been discussed controversially by many philosophers. In this opening sentence, the topic ‘personal identity’ can be replaced wi...
During the writing of the essay, you should already know what you are going to write as a conclusion. Obviously, in the conclusion you should succinctly answer the essay question and leave no doubt what your answer is. From your conclusion one should be able to tell what the question was. Do not conclude with a general claim that supposedly implies...
Of course you cannot provide speciûc references in an exam, but you should do so in your tutorial essays. I will not complain every time they are missing, but I do not think it is asking too much to copy the entry from a bibliography into your ûle. Get clear about who the author is. Do not confuse, for instance, Clarence Irving Lewis with David Lew...
Answer the question and make clear that you are answering the question. If the marker thinks that you are not addressing the question, you will pay a high toll. When you think an overworked and not very astute marker might have lost track of why you are saying something or how it relates to the question, you should repeat your rationale for mention...
By choosing the wrong question, you can spoil everything in an exam. Spend some time thinking about the questions. Some questions can be misleading. A subject, taking one hand from a bucket of icy water and the other from a bucket of warm water, places them simultaneously into a bucket of lukewarm water. She reports that the water feels both warm a...
In the perfect world, you would have worked through all items on the faculty reading list and read a couple of additional books and papers. If you have not read everything, it is useful to obtain an overview by reading some entry in an encyclopedia or in a textbook. Of course, by reading a single paragraph on three- versus four-dimensionalism, you ...
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Tackling the Philosophy Essay (select one of the following formats): PDF. Word. Mobi (for Kindle) Epub (for all other eReaders) Guide To Grammar. To view information relating to the presentation of extended essays, dissertations and general paper (all parts) see Undergraduate Exams.
argument(s). If you explain, in the essay, the structure your essay will take, and then follow it up with a logical flow, it can sometimes be easier to write your essay under a time constraint. A clear and logical structure in a philosophy essay can look like the below; note that it likely follows the same flow of your initial outline: 1.
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This is an example of a succinct introduction that directly addresses the essay question. It provides 1) a general context for the idea of knowledge, 2) identifies the issue, 3) outlines what will be considered, and 4) states its conclusion. parrot keeps saying “crisis, crisis, it’s getting hotter”.
Sample Answers. The following are real answers to Tripos questions. Following each answer is an indication of the expected class of an essay at this level together with a brief justification. They are supposed to give you some idea of what the examiners are expecting to see.
