Evaluate how well a person’s life has gone

Your summary is very good, but the overall paper lacks an analysis of the arguments. You can use ”I think” or ”My view is that P. I believe this because…” to express your own argument.

You need to read the article carefully.

Your Introduction should not exceed half a page, and your Thesis statement needs to be clear.

The maximum length of the paper is 5 pages. (do not exceed it, you will lose points)

You can refer to the writing mode and narrative method of sample paper.

Phil 100 – Eleventh Assignment

Write a 3 to 5 page paper in response to the following prompt. Your script should be double spaced, 12pt text.

Well-being and Time. How should we evaluate how well a person’s life has gone? Carefully explain the position Velleman endorses in this week’s reading. Do you agree with him? Is it important that the events in your life make a good story?

Before writing your paper, make sure you make a plan. Also, it may be helpful to review the “writing a paper” checklist slide that we discussed in the first class (available on the course site under files/slides and handouts).

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.