phil 150 draft introduction critical essay
This week we continue to build on our Critical Essays due in Week 7. In this assignment, you will create a thesis statement.
An excellent thesis statement is specific and informative and insightful. It tells your reader precisely what you are going to argue in your paper and why. It doesn’t just promise an examination. Please avoid backing into your thesis by way of a question too. Put your thesis forward in declarative terms.
Please include your list of references (in APA format) noting any revisions in light of feedback provided Week 2. Remember, your references need to be primary references which refers to the works of people who take a stand for and against the issue you’ll consider. This rules out encyclopedias (even specialized encyclopedias) that just give us a synopsis of what the primary source has to say.
Thesis Statement Rubric:
- 22.5 Points for the articulation of a Clear Thesis Statement concerning the problem at issue along with a revised list of references properly formatted in APA;
- 22.5 Points for setting up the context of your thesis. Essentially, this is a first-draft of your Introduction.
Once again, you are free to select a topic falling under any of the following general categories: (1) Why Philosophy? (2) What is Real? (3) Who Are We? (4) Does God Exist? (5) How Do We Know? (Epistemology) (6) What is Truth? (7) What is Justice? (8) What is the good life? You are also welcome to entertain the question of Aesthetics, specifically, the role of art in society.
