Syllabus Supplement
Term Paper Guide
The Term Paper must meet the following requirements.
Minimum length is 3,000
words.
The topic will be a philosopher from among a posted list of living philosophers. You may pick your favorite from this list or if you wish I will assign one for you based on your interests. You can
research aspects of the philosopher's life, or thought but a combination always seems to work out best since a philosopher's thought seems closely connected to personal experiences.
A minimum of three references should be used for research. The textbook can be
one of the references. If web sites are used as references they can be included
as links in the paper. Avoid plagiarism!
Plagiarized papers will receive an F which would mean the best possible grade
that could be earned for the course would be a C.
Graphics can be included but do not change the minimum word length.
The paper must be turned in via e-mail. This is necessary since I check each
paper for plagiarism.
The paper can be emailed either as a Word attachment or pasted into your email
message itself. There is no requirement
concerning the mechanics of the paper. You are encouraged to use your imagination! If you are
interested in suggested ways to reference materials on line you can look at this
MLA guide. However, I prefer to have a
"live" link myself. Using the web for research is still so new that
conventions do not seem adequately established. They may never be!