Writing Tips

Reading philosophy can be difficult, writing it more so. And for most of my classes, I require lots of writing. If you develop the skill of writing philosophically, I guarantee that you will excel writing in any other capacity, whether it be writing papers for your other classes, a letter to the editor, a grant proposal, an extended presentation aimed at demonstrating a single point, etc. But to achieve that end it helps a student to be familiar with the rules of inference that also help one structure the form of their arguments logically. To that end, it helps to know the rules of inference in logic and many of the English words that serve as logical connectives in one's writing. For these reasons, I first develop a student's writing with ten one-page papers, and the final paper usually consists of making a sustained argument over four to six pages.

With all that in mind, I have attached some tips that help you write philosophically.