If so, develop and evaluate the author's response. If not, you should take the author's side and formulate the best response that you can to the objection. If you cannot think of any good responses to the objection, make an appointment to talk to me so that I can make some suggestions. Your grade will be based not only on the quality of the objections you raise but also on the quality of the responses that you make to your objections. Conclude by summarizing the results of your argument and their significance for the relevant issues.
Some people can sit down and write an outline of a paper before they write it.
Others have to write the paper first. But everyone should be able to make an outline of the paper after writing it. This is a useful way to discover logical gaps or other gaps in the discussion. Whenever you turn in any assignment in this course, the understanding is that what you are turning in is your own original work, except to the extent that you explicitly credit others for their contributions. You have an obligation to avoid even the appearance of impropriety, by always attributing any argument or idea that you have borrowed, even if you have modified it, to its source.