DRAFT due on Tuesday, February 3. 
PAPER due Friday, February 6, by 3 p.m.  

The only goal of the paper is to summarize a key thesis of Ted Cohen's  Jokes.You are to write a paper of about 3 pages length, followed by a bibliography page. Use a cover page, standard double-spacing, 12 point font, and page numbering. The paper should have introductory and concluding paragraphs.

YOU ARE NOT EXPECTED AND NOT ENCOURAGED TO USE ANY SECONDARY SOURCES FOR THIS PROJECT. But if you do, those sources must be included on your bibliography page.

This is meant to be your summary of what Cohen thinks. The goal of a summary is to restate the other person’s position in your own words. Direct quotations from the text should be used sparingly. Any use of more than two consecutive words from the text demands quotation marks and a page citation. Where standard technical terminology is involved, you are not expected to find your own words for those ideas. But you are expected to define them for the reader who might not know what they mean. (Don't assume your reader has read Cohen's book.)

Citation: You must cite the Cohen text that you are using. Do this by adding a bibliography page as a separate page at the end of the paper. This is the citation:

Cohen, Ted. Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters. The University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Because you are using a bibliography page, any references that you want to make to the text (for instance, when you quote) can be done by putting the author’s name and the page number into parentheses in the text. Example:

Cohen makes a distinction between two basic kinds of jokes (Cohen, 12-32).

If Cohen is the ONLY text you're citing, you don't even need to put his name into the parenthetical citations. Just do it this way:

Cohen makes a distinction between two basic kinds of jokes (pp., 12-32).

For full information about bibliographical citation, go to http://www.mnstate.edu/philosop/  and click on “Guide to Writing Research Papers”