Requirements for Philosophy Term Paper on Perception

The Term Paper assignment is due at 4.30pm on Tuesday 23^rd November.

You must use this document as a template for your assignment, filling out the indicated sections appropriately. Download this file and save it. (You might need to click on ‘Enable Editing’ to make changes to it.)It is your responsibility to ensure that your assignment file is properly submitted and uploaded to Canvas.

Assignments that do not follow these submission requirements will not be accepted, and will receive a 0 grade.

The Term Paper assignment is worth 15% of your final grade for PHIL 100.

This assignment must be your own work. Any and all use of other sources, no matter how short, must be acknowledged using the appropriate MLA citation methods. To help you with this, make use of the from the Writing and Learning Centre.

If you include any amount of material from other sources that you do not cite in accordance with MLA requirements, your assignment may receive a 0 grade, and an Academic Alert may be filed.

If you want to get additional guidance on MLA citations and tips on avoiding plagiarism, it is highly recommended that you speak to one of the experts in the Writing and Learning Centre.

The only sources you may use for this assignment are the following:

1. Perception: Class Presentations from PHIL 100 – see Modules page on Canvas

2. Perception: Required Readings from PHIL 100 – see Modules page on Canvas

3. Perception: Additional Sources from PHIL 100 – see Modules page on Canvas

If you use other sources that are not listed here, this will have a significant negative impact on your grade for this assignment. However, if you find and want to make use of a source that does not appear here, send me an Inbox message with a link to the source you are interested in. You must do this no later than Friday 19^th November, and you can only use the source if I reply that it is acceptable for you to do so.

The Term Paper assignment is due at 4.30pm on Tuesday 23^rd November.

You must use this document as a template for your assignment, filling out the indicated sections appropriately. Download this file and save it. (You might need to click on ‘Enable Editing’ to make changes to it.)

It is your responsibility to ensure that your assignment file is properly submitted and uploaded to Canvas.

Assignments that do not follow these submission requirements will not be accepted, and will receive a 0 grade.

Submission Requirements

The Term Paper assignment is worth 15% of your final grade for PHIL 100.

This assignment must be your own work. Any and all use of other sources, no matter how short, must be acknowledged using the appropriate MLA citation methods. To help you with this, make use of the MLA Style Guide from the Writing and Learning Centre.

If you include any amount of material from other sources that you do not cite in accordance with MLA requirements, your assignment may receive a 0 grade, and an Academic Alert may be filed.

If you want to get additional guidance on MLA citations and tips on avoiding plagiarism, it is highly recommended that you speak to one of the experts in the Writing and Learning Centre.

If you use other sources that are not listed here, this will have a significant negative impact on your grade for this assignment. However, if you find and want to make use of a source that does not appear here, send me an Inbox message with a link to the source you are interested in. You must do this no later than Friday 19^th November, and you can only use the source if I reply that it is acceptable for you to do so.

Please add your response to all of the blank white sections in all of the tables below. The grade you receive for your work is directly related to how effectively you fulfill the given requirements.

This is a term paper question for a philosophy course on the subject of perception. Therefore, it is essential that relevant philosophical material is used to answer it.

1. You write in clear, accurate and precise English.

2. Your work must be fully understandable to someone who is not familiar with the subject of philosophy, its technical terminology, or its theories.

3. You accurately define any philosophical terms you include, as soon after their first appearance as you can. If possible, you also give examples. (You should not define the same term more than once in the Term Paper.)

4. You only include material that is relevant to the specific Term Paper question, and you make it explicitly clear to the reader whyall the material is relevant.

5. You do not contradict yourself (for example, saying that you agree with two viewpoints that are incompatible).

6. You focus on sources and arguments that are within the subject of philosophy, notother subject areas like psychology, business, or marketing.

7. Your work clearly shows that you understand the topic, terms, and theories that you include. (Note: an over-reliance on the use of quotes rather than your own explanations and examples suggests to the reader that you do not understand what you are writing about.)

8. You follow the requirements for providing appropriate MLA in-text citations.

a. You explain the question from a philosophical viewpoint, defining any philosophical terms you use, and giving examples where possible.

b. You give a clear and direct answer to the question, with a brief explanation of your reasoning. (This is known as a thesis statementfor an

‘argumentative’ or ‘position’ essay – the remainder of the essay is about convincing the reader that your thesis statement is correct.)

c. You state which philosophical theories you are going to explain and assess in Section 3 that provide total or partial support and agreement to your answer, and explain how they are relevant to the question. A minimum of one theory should be referred to here.

d. You state which philosophical theories you are going to explain and assess in Section 4 that provide total or partial opposition and disagreement to your answer, and explain how they are relevant to the question. A minimum of one theory should be referred to here. (Note: it is possible that the same theory could appear in Section 3 and Section 4, because there are some parts of it you agree with, and some parts of it you disagree with)