<p>Seminar, two hours. Students gain knowledge and develop skills required to write a journal-length philosophy essay of publishable quality, and guide it through the publication process. Students re-write, with greater polish and with consideration to likely criticisms of journal reviewers, a seminar paper that they have already written in a previous course. That instructor serves as an expert consultant for the project. Results in a second-year paper, which serves as the capstone requirement for the master’s degree. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. S/U grading.</p>

Philosophy

College of Letters and Science

PHILOS 298 - Second-Year Writing Seminar

Second-Year Writing Seminar

Students will be put into groups of three and will provide “referee reports” for each others’
papers. They will then write responses to those reports and “cover letters” for a “resubmission.” Students will
workshop these responses and letters in class.

Students will make short presentations of their work. These tasks will help students to locate the
main ideas of their paper and to think about how to best convey them to a broad audience.

Students will learn to write “descriptive outlines” of texts they have already
written, focusing attention on the main theses and arguments. They will make decisions about how to revise in light
of those outlines. 

General Catalog

Second-Year Writing Seminar

PHILOS 298

2 to 4 units