Here is a document with advice for writing essays for this course. The following are the same document, in two different formats.
Advice for writing papers (PHIL 230, Fall 2014) (MS Word)
Advice for writing papers (PHIL 230, Fall 2014) (PDF)
And here is a marking rubric we’ll use to mark the essays. It gives you some idea of the categories of things we look for when marking, and what kinds of mistakes are often made in each category.