Essay Topics for CPHL 550
Essay Topics for CPHL 550 – Knowledge, Truth and Belief “Plan your work, work your plan”. – Vince Lombardi General Instructions Make sure to consult the Basic Style Guidelines Document and the Tips for Writing an Effective CPHL 550 Essay Document in order to confirm the details for each assignment (both the minor and the major essay) especially with respect to the minimal length requirement. Since there is no final exam in this course, your essay assignments need to be treated with the same attention and effort (or perhaps even more attention and effort) that you would give to an in-class final exam. It takes research, planning, contemplation and above all an adequate amount of time in order to make sure that you have the opportunity to fully engage in these activities before the writing process itself begins. Please bear in mind that your essay marks combined represent 70% of your total course mark, my advice (in advance) is for all students to proportion their effort accordingly in this regard. Make sure that you begin by consulting (or reviewing if we already covered the material previously) the relevant module (both the lecture and readings) before writing on a particular topic. You may consult other readings on the issue (preferably academic journal articles, or scholarly works) but keep your noncourse sources to a minimum (see the basic style requirements document on this). When I say “in your own words” or “sketch out in detail” what I mean by these expressions is that I want you to explain something to a reader rather than blindly quoting an article or reproducing the class notes. Read the relevant material, work out in your own mind what the author is trying to say or convey or argue for, and present that material to your reader as if you had to explain or summarize something for a classmate who hasn’t taken this course (presuming that they are unfamiliar with this material). The more you work to understand what an author is saying (or attempting to argue