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Books contributed by the Internet Archive. Free Course: A Survey of Shakespeare's Plays. This is a course on Shakespeare's career, given at Brandeis University in the spring of 2010, by William Flesch.
It covers several representative plays from all four genres: comedy, tragedy, history, and romance. We consider both the similarities and differences among those genres, and how his more and more radical experimentations in genre reflect his developing thought, about theater, about time, about life, over the course of his career. In terms of texts, any complete Shakespeare will suffice, including this free version online from MIT.
The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, is also recommended. Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper. Philosophical writing is different from the writing you'll be asked to do in other courses.
Most of the strategies described below will also serve you well when writing for other courses, but don't automatically assume that they all will. Nor should you assume that every writing guideline you've been given by other teachers is important when you're writing a philosophy paper. Some of those guidelines are routinely violated in good philosophical prose (e.g., see the guidelines on grammar, below).
Contents What Does One Do in a Philosophy Paper? A philosophy paper consists of the reasoned defense of some claim Your paper must offer an argument. Three Stages of Writing. Guidelines on Reading Philosophy. It will be difficult for you to make sense of some of the articles we'll be reading.
This is partly because they discuss abstract ideas that you're not accustomed to thinking about. They may also use technical vocabulary which is new to you. Sometimes it won't be obvious what the overall argument of the paper is supposed to be. The prose may be complicated, and you may need to pick the article apart sentence by sentence. Here are some tips to make the process easier and more effective. Contents Skim the Article to Find its Conclusion and Get a Sense of its Structure A good way to begin when you're trying to read a difficult article is to first skim the article to identify what the author's main conclusion is. When you're skimming the article, try also to get a general sense of what's going on in each part of the discussion. The articles we read won't always have a straightforward structure.
This is the conclusion I want you to accept. The conclusion I want you to accept is A. And so on. Philosophical Terms and Methods. Directory of Open Access Journals. Brain Pump. A Master List of 700 Free Courses From Great Universities. Open Knowledge: Home. Search BONUS+ University of Sydney Library /All Locations. Encyclopedia Britannica. About a little thing called 750 Words.
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