Philosophy 600 - Writing Practicum

The goal of this course to develop a piece of philosophical writing from an initial draft into a polished piece of philosophical work. The instructor and student must agree on the paper to work on at the beginning of the practicum, which in many cases will be a past term paper written for another course which the student has received good feedback on, but still requires improvement. The student and faculty member will meet to discuss drafts of the paper and ways to improve it, including doing additional research, refining the philosophical argumentation, and improving the writing. The goal will be to develop the paper into the kind of polished academic writing that might be publishable in a philosophy journal, and represents the kind of quality work that is necessary for writing a PhD dissertation in philosophy.

Open to Graduate students in Philosophy.