RLG206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vajrayana, Sanctification, Vinaya
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What to do after you have chosen your project. How to take note of what you find: writing as you research, compiling all data first. What information to retain: author, date, location, publisher, title, page numbers of information. Schopen claims that modern scholarship imagines a type of monasticism quite different from that represented by the redactors of the m lasarv stiv da- vinaya. (citation) Quoting: when you need to discuss the language used by an author, when you risk losing the meaning, or can"t say the same thing any other way, use quotations. Poor thesis: what does x represent, what is x, x is y, what is the meaning of the writing here, avoid preparing to write an essay which will be a simple regurgitation of facts. Why does the yab-yum image depict buddhist deities having intercourse if. Warrant (why premise 1 is a good support for the conclusion/thesis) Remember to outline your essay, to save your precious time.
