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This is a supplemental text for all philosophy courses that facilitates, invigorates, and enhances student learning by teaching students to read and write effectively.
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TO THE STUDENT Welcome to a Community of Skilled Thinkers
TO THE TEACHER: What's New in the Fourth Edition?
PART 1 Reading & Writing for Introductory Philosophy Courses
1 Read & Write Philosophically: Get Started!
1.1 Reading Analytically
Read & Write: Analyze The American Scholar
1.2 Read News as Political Power
Read & Write: Compare the Slants of Front Pages
1.3 Read News Like a Philosopher
Read & Write: Respond to an Editorial or Op-Ed Essay
1.4 Define Your Personal Ethics
Read & Write: Write Your Own Statement of Ethics
1.5 Clarify a Topic in the History of Philosophy
Read & Write: Start with TED
2 Read & Write Effectively
2.1 Get into the Flow of Writing
Read & Write: Narrowing Topics
2.2 Think Creatively
Read & Write: Freewriting to Engage Your Creativity
2.3 Organize Your Writing
Read & Write: Write an Outline for a Paper Inspired by a Published Article
2.4 Draft, Revise, Edit, and Proofread
Read & Write: Discover Your Own Identity and Style
3 Engage the Craft of Scholarship
3.1 The Competent Writer
Read & Write: Rephrase to Eliminate a Sentence Fragment
3.2 Avoid Errors in Grammar Punctuation
Read & Write: Proofread for the President
3.3 Format Your Paper and its Contents Professionally
Read & Write: Explain the Data in this Table
3.4 Cite Your Sources Properly
Read & Write: Create an Actually Usable Bibliography
3.5 Avoid Plagiarism
Read & Write: Properly Summarize an Article from The Stone
4 Practice the Craft of Argument
4.1 Argue Effectively and Cogently
Read & Write: Write a Sound Argument
4.3 Avoid Fallacies
Read & Write: Identify the Fallacies in the Following Arguments
5 Arguments and Supporting Data Galore: Philosophy Information Sources
5.1 Welcome to the APA and APS
Read & Write: Write an Email to an APA or APS Philosopher
5.2 Mining Dissertations and Think Tanks
Read & Write: Collect Dissertations and Research Institute Studies
5.3 Welcome to the National Archives
Read & Write: Collect Materials to Counter the "Benign Slavery" Argument
5.4 Welcome to the Library of Congress (LOC)
Read & Write: Construct a Bibliography from the LOC Catalog
5.5 Welcome to the Congressional Record
Read & Write: Refute a Recent Speech in Congress
6 Read and Write Professionally and Critically
6.1 How to Critique an Academic Article
Read & Write: Critique a Recent Article from a Philosophy Journal
6.2 How to Write a Book Review
Read & Write: Review a New Philosophy Book
6.3 How to Write a Literature Review
Read & Write: Write a Philosophy Literature Review
7 Preliminary Scholarship: Research Effectively
7.1 Institute an Effective Research Process
Read & Write: Write a Philosophical Research Proposal
7.2 Find and Evaluate the Quality of Online and Printed Information
Read & Write: Locate a Dozen High Quality Sources
PART 2 Practicing Philosophy with Advanced Writing Exercises
8 Practice Varieties of Philosophy
8.1 Practice Public Policy Analysis
Read & Write: Analyze a Local Government Policy
8.2 Define and Apply Ethics
Read & Write: Compare Consequential and Deontological Arguments
8.3 Apply Ethics to Public Policy
Read & Write: Construct an Ethics for the Singularity
8.4 Practice the Philosophy of the Mind
Read & Write: Explore Problems and Potentials of Artificial Intelligence
8.5 Practice the Philosophy of Religion
Read & Write: Encounter Minds and Gods
8.6 Practice Political Philosophy
Read & Write: Behold the Panopticon
8.7 Practice Legal Argumentation
Read & Write: Write an Abridged Amicus Brief for the U.S. Supreme Court
Appendices
A List of Philosophy Periodicals
B Glossary
C Bibliography
INDEX
About the author
Anthony J. Graybosch is professor in the philosophy department at California State University Chico.
Gregory M. Scott is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Central Oklahoma.
Stephen M. Garrison is professor of English and creative writing, former chair of the Department of English, and director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Central Oklahoma.
Summary
This is a supplemental text for all philosophy courses that facilitates, invigorates, and enhances student learning by teaching students to read and write effectively.
