{"id":17866,"date":"2023-04-29T13:54:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T13:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/critical-analysis-paper-what-are-the-arguments-for-and-against-the-notion-that-we-are-free-to-do-as-we-please\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T13:54:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T13:54:49","slug":"critical-analysis-paper-what-are-the-arguments-for-and-against-the-notion-that-we-are-free-to-do-as-we-please","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/critical-analysis-paper-what-are-the-arguments-for-and-against-the-notion-that-we-are-free-to-do-as-we-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Analysis Paper &#8211; What are the arguments for and against the notion that we are free to do as we please?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As the title says, this is a CAP (Crititcal Analysis Paper) The prompt is<b> &#8220;Do you believe we have free will?&#8221;&nbsp;<\/b><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;d like the stance taken to be no, please. &lt;3 Thank you!!<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Instructions attached, but some key points here as well:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u2022<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span>Include a short outline of the main points of your paper and include it after the title page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\">\u2022 You are allowed to write in the first person (use the word \u201cI.\u201d).&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;** &#8220;Some Possible Writing Strategies:&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span>\u2022 The paper must do substantive work, not merely regurgitate an author\u2019s main points<br \/>\n(although, of course, it is important for you to restate an author\u2019s position before criticizing<br \/>\nit). Some possibilities are:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>o Criticize an argument; or show that certain arguments for the thesis are no good.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>o Defend the argument or thesis against someone else&#8217;s criticism.<br \/>\no Offer reasons to believe the thesis.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>o Offer counterexamples to the thesis. &#8220;<br \/><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span>&nbsp;** &#8220;You must cite at least two reliable sources, preferably academic in nature. Since web<br \/>\naddresses change constantly, you can find the website by googling its name. Be careful of<br \/>\nsatire websites or fake news. Some good websites include the Stanford Encyclopedia of<br \/>\nPhilosophy, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Philosopher\u2019s Imprint, and the numerous<br \/>\nelectronic databases that the school library carries. Possible sources include books, journal<br \/>\narticles, magazines, databases, Websites, videos, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and almanacs.<br \/>\nElectronic databases such as JSTOR also contain numerous academic articles and are usually<br \/>\naccessible through the college website. When possible, try to cite from recent sources.&#8221;<br \/><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: var(--color-1); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p>MLA or Chicago citations.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the title says, this is a CAP (Crititcal Analysis Paper) The prompt is &#8220;Do you believe we have free will?&#8221;&nbsp; I&#8217;d like the stance taken to be no, please. &lt;3 Thank you!! Instructions attached, but some key points here as well: \u2022&nbsp;&nbsp;Include a short outline of the main points of your paper and include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[702],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/17866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/17866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=17866"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=17866"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=17866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}