ASSIGNMENT: WRITE AN ANALYTIC PAPER

Bob Corbett

PHIL 1010 50: Fall (II) 2001

Bob Corbett
Instructor

THE ANALYTIC PAPER

• The paper is EXACTLY one page long -- to the line. This is to attempt to force you to do careful editing of the text, an important part of the skill of critical thinking.
• You must put your name and all such on a cover page. The one page of the paper itself must begin on the first line and end on the very last line of the page.
• The margin are extremely strict. I will hand out a sample page and accept no alternatives.
• In the first sentence state the theme of the paper or particular argument you are doing.
• The second sentence should be the statment of what you take is the author's MOST IMPORTANT thesis in the paper. ONLY in the case where there are two or more EQUALLY important theses you much choose one of them. But the one you choose must be either THE most important theses, or ONE of them.
• Name / NUMBER / Fully explain -- the main arguments for the thesis.
• Be sure you run the IF / THEN test on these arguments. EACH independent argument must be a sufficient argument for the thesis. If it is not, then it simply isn't an argument for the thesis.
• Observe the rigorous margins Corbett demands.
• Write in fully intelligible and standard English.

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