What Is It The Point Of The Paper?
'What is the point of the paper?'
To see if you can write at length about some topic, in a focused and sustained way. Focused -- not rambling disconnectedly on "everything I know about X", but discussing a specific topic or cluster of interrelated topics in an integrated way. Sustained -- following through some clear line(s) of argument in some depth (e.g. discussing not just objections but objections to the objections).
That still leaves options. You may go 'vertically' and dig more deeply into one particular issue; or you may go 'horizontally' and be concerned to make connections, and show how different parts of the philosophical landscape fit together -- or a bit of both. But whichever way you go, you should aim for a clearly structured story and some meaty arguments.
'But typical one-word questions like "Necessity" or "Scepticism" or "Justice" are not very focused!'
True. But they are intended as invitations to write on some specific topic that falls under the one-word......
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