{"id":103,"date":"2013-09-01T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T19:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2019-01-02T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T17:27:00","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/phil102\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing help"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing papers in philosophy<\/span><\/h1>\n

Christina’s advice<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Here is a set of guidelines for writing essays in this course. Both files are the same thing, in two different formats:<\/p>\n

Guidelines for writing essays in PHIL 102 (MS Word)<\/a><\/p>\n

Guidelines for writing essays in PHIL 102 (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here is a longer, more in-depth set of guidelines that I wrote for a writing-intensive course I teach, Arts One (and that I adapted to fit this course). If you want a bit more detail, you can look at this 5-page document with advice! Again, this is the same file in two different formats.<\/p>\n

Guidelines for papers (longer) (MS Word)<\/a><\/p>\n

Guidelines for papers (longer) (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here is a marking rubric we use when marking your essays. It is useful to look at this before<\/em> you write essays, so you can see the sorts of things you should be sure to do in your essays.<\/p>\n

Marking Rubric for papers in Hendricks’ courses (MS Word)<\/a><\/p>\n

Marking Rubric for papers in Hendricks’ courses (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Philosophy department essay clinic<\/h2>\n

The Philosophy department at UBC has announced an essay clinic<\/a>: drop-in and appointment times to speak with a philosophy instructor or a philosophy teaching assistant about your essays (the TA is Phyllis Pearson, who is also a TA for our course!). There are regular drop in times each week Jan. 29-March 30, and also you can make appointments with one of them.<\/p>\n

Examples of paraphrasing badly<\/h2>\n

These slides were discussed in class on Jan. 29, 2018.<\/p>\n