Whatever your topic, use clear, careful language throughout.
Clarify your terms.
Demonstrate you understand the issue at hand.
Move slowly, one point at a time, and justify everything. Use examples to make your points clear.
Don't forget to bounce ideas off your fellow classmates and friends. They will help you identify areas you need to further clarify and justify. And their complaints and encouragement will often lead you to consider more interesting lines of reasoning.
Do not be afraid to revise and even abandon an idea that cannot withstand informal criticism. You may have strong intuitions about certain issues, and your paper will be a good place to articulate your intuitions. Writing good philosophy papers is hard work, takes many revisions, but is quite rewarding.
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