Make sure you read the Paper Assignment PDF document in its entirely. Basically – here’s what you have to do for the paper:

Make sure you read the Paper Assignment PDF document in its entirely. Basically – here’s what you have to do for the paper:

1) Choose one of the abortion articles to write your paper about (there are three: Warren, Marquis, and Thomson).

2) Spend the first half of the paper explaining the argument of the article. Be thorough and clear.

3) Spend the second half of the paper criticizing the article. Here you have to think hard about what, in your view, is wrong with the author’s argument, and articulate it in your paper as clearly as possible. Think about the concepts about arguments learned in logic, like validity and soundness, and how they apply to the argument you chose.

CITING: This is not a research paper. The only article you need be concerned with is the article you choose to write about. When you are explaining the argument, you should cite the article as you summarize and paraphrase, and you should include a direct quote here and there as you see fit. You can cite the article simply using the author’s name and page number in parentheses. For example, here’s what this could look like in an actual:

Warren argues that there are two different senses to the word, ‘human’: the moral sense, and the genetic sense. The moral sense is the sense in which someone is a “full-fledged member of the moral community,” and the genetic sense is the sense in which someone is a member of the human species