1500 words minimum/maximum (approximately 4 ½ pages) Due 10/31/14 by 11:55pm [Note: I've changed the due date from 10/29 to 10/31 to give you some extra time] Return to your first short paper and now write a paper comparing the devices used for presenting philosophical views employed in the different genre through which the views are presented. You may refine your initial interpretations of the texts. Be sure to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each of these literary forms for presenting philosophical ideas, and the interpretive challenges presented by each different genre. Be sure that you examine at least two different genres. If you used more than two texts for your first short paper you may reduce the texts down to two for this paper as long as the two texts represent two different genres. Formatting instructions and deductions • Name, student ID, class hour single spaced in the header • 1 inch margins on all sides • Page numbers in the header • Text of the essay double spaced • 12 point, standard font 10 point deduction for each violation of the above Grammar deductions 1 point for each grammatical error Word count 10 point deduction for word count violation Quotations 10 point deduction per quote exceeding ten words. I prefer that you not quote at all but put the .