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PART 1Reading & Writing for Introductory Philosophy Courses

1Read & Write Philosophically: Get Started!
1.1Reading Analytically
Read & Write: Analyze The American Scholar
1.2Read News as Political Power
Read & Write: Compare the Slants of Front Pages
1.3Read News Like a Philosopher
Read & Write: Respond to an Editorial or Op-Ed Essay
1.4Define Your Personal Ethics
Read & Write: Write Your Own Statement of Ethics
1.5Clarify a Topic in the History of Philosophy
Read & Write: Start with TED

2Read & Write Effectively
2.1Get into the Flow of Writing
Read & Write: Narrowing Topics
2.2Think Creatively
Read & Write: Freewriting to Engage Your Creativity
2.3Organize Your Writing
Read & Write: Write an Outline for a Paper Inspired by a Published Article
2.4Draft, Revise, Edit, and Proofread
Read & Write: Discover Your Own Identity and Style

3Engage the Craft of Scholarship
3.1The Competent Writer
Read & Write: Rephrase to Eliminate a Sentence Fragment
3.2Avoid Errors in Grammar Punctuation
Read & Write: Proofread for the President
3.3Format Your Paper and its Contents Professionally
Read & Write: Explain the Data in this Table
3.4Cite Your Sources Properly
Read & Write: Create an Actually Usable Bibliography
3.5Avoid Plagiarism
Read & Write: Properly Summarize an Article from The Stone

4Practice the Craft of Argument
4.1Argue Effectively and Cogently
Read & Write: Write a Sound Argument
4.3Avoid Fallacies
Read & Write: Identify the Fallacies in the Following Arguments

5Arguments and Supporting Data Galore: Philosophy Information Sources
5.1Welcome to the APA and APS
Read & Write: Write an Email to an APA or APS Philosopher
5.2Mining Dissertations and Think Tanks
Read & Write: Collect Dissertations and Research Institute Studies
5.3Welcome to the National Archives
Read & Write: Collect Materials to Counter the “Benign Slavery” Argument
5.4Welcome to the Library of Congress (LOC)
Read & Write: Construct a Bibliography from the LOC Catalog
5.5Welcome to the Congressional Record
Read & Write: Refute a Recent Speech in Congress

6Read and Write Professionally and Critically
6.1How to Critique an Academic Article
Read & Write: Critique a Recent Article from a Philosophy Journal
6.2How to Write a Book Review
Read & Write: Review a New Philosophy Book
6.3How to Write a Literature Review
Read & Write: Write a Philosophy Literature Review

7Preliminary Scholarship: Research Effectively
7.1Institute an Effective Research Process
Read & Write: Write a Philosophical Research Proposal
7.2Find and Evaluate the Quality of Online and Printed Information
Read & Write: Locate a Dozen High Quality Sources

PART 2Practicing Philosophy with Advanced Writing Exercises

8Practice Varieties of Philosophy
8.1Practice Public Policy Analysis
Read & Write: Analyze a Local Government Policy
8.2Define and Apply Ethics
Read & Write: Compare Consequential and Deontological Arguments
8.3Apply Ethics to Public Policy
Read & Write: Construct an Ethics for the Singularity
8.4Practice the Philosophy of the Mind
Read & Write: Explore Problems and Potentials of Artificial Intelligence
8.5Practice the Philosophy of Religion
Read & Write: Encounter Minds and Gods
8.6Practice Political Philosophy
Read & Write: Behold the Panopticon
8.7Practice Legal Argumentation
Read & Write: Write an Abridged Amicus Brief for the U.S. Supreme Court

Appendices
AList of Philosophy Periodicals
BGlossary
CBibliography
INDEX