PHI 3377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: California State University, Sacramento, Continental Philosophy
2 Dec 2015
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For this course, your essays will be either purely expository, or a blend of exposition and critical assessment, depending upon which kind of essay question you choose. Some useful guidelines for writing such papers can be found online at: http://www. csus. edu/phil/req/writing. htm. I would add the following points: make sure that you read all assigned sections of the text(s) by the author on whom you are writing, not just those that you think pertain directly to your essay topic. For one thing, there may be passages indirectly relevant to that topic in other sections of the text. Quotations strung together with a few unilluminating comments in between do not amount to an essay. You must include explication and analysis of the author"s claims, and not simply repeat his words. Do not presuppose that your reader already has an advanced knowledge of the authors, ideas and texts that you are presenting.
