See also the instructions for Creating an Analytical Outline.
Requirements
The Analytical Outline should be at least 1 page long, single spaced. Students should use bullet points to distinguish between the thesis and various arguments, sub-arguments, objections, etc. Use indentation to show subordinate arguments or points.
Evaluation
An excellent Analytical Outline will show evidence of close reading of the article and careful attention to the structure of the argument as a whole. The outline should be well-organized and it should be clear how the arguments, sub-arguments, objections etc support the thesis.
Article Choices
Each student is responsible for making analytical outlines of two articles from assigned readings. Later in the semester, these outlines will form the basis of the students’ argumentative papers and in-class argument presentations.
Article choices for Outline 1:
- Amy C. Barrett. 2017. “Originalism and Stare Decisis.”
- Dworkin, Ronald. 1996. “The Moral Reading of the Constitution.”
- Locke, John. “V. Of property”
- Marx, Karl. “Estranged Labor.”
- D. Rosen and C. Usui. “The social structure of Japanese intellectual property.”
Article Choices for Outline 2:
- Coleman, Jules. 1982. “Corrective justice and wrongful gain.”
- J.S. Mill, “Of the limits to the authority of society over the individual.”
- “Patrick Devlin, “The Enforcement of Morals”.
- Hampton, Jean. 1984. “The Moral Education Theory of Punishment.”
- Michel Foucault. 2008. “‘Panopticism’ from Discipline and Punish.”
