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General Guidance Notes:The aim of the Online Blogging Assignments is to develop your skills in writing short essays(written in the style of a good academic blog or short online article) that accurately exploredeep philosophical issues in an engaging and accessible manner.Your short essay should not include a traditional introduction (so e.g. don’t provide a roadmapof the discussion to come), rather your opening lines should be designed to grab the reader’sattention and get them thinking about the issues you will go on to discuss. Your article musthave a clearly identifiable main claim, and clearly stated reasons given in support of that claim,but it is up to you where you state that claim in the discussion (so, it could be upfront, in themiddle, or at the end).You do not need to reference lots of academic papers. There should be at least one, but no morethan three references (to readings from the relevant week connected to your chosen question).And quotes should be used very sparingly. However, despite those points, it should still beclear to me when I read your article that you have studied and reflected upon the lecturematerials and the relevant readings from the subject reading list. What I want to see is a shortand clear discussion that demonstrates a good understanding of the ideas you have studied andsome of their critical pressure points. You do not have to set out some wholly original positionor argument of your own, it is fine to articulate a position that you have discovered throughyour study of the readings and lecture materials. What your article should show is that you havedigested and reflected upon the relevant ideas, and then made them your own by writing anarticle exploring those ideas in your own voice and words.The following links will take you to some good aspirational models for your articles. Theseexamples are all short academic blog-style articles (close to the word length for thisassignment) where the author explains a philosophical issue and provides a short argument in 2support of a substantive claim about that issue. And in all these articles the writing is clear,concise, and engaging (often with good uses of examples to illustrate and reinforce key ideas).See:• https://blog.oup.com/2020/04/why-vaccines-should-be-compulsory/• https://blog.oup.com/2020/03/why-self-help-wont-cure-impostor-syndrome/• https://blog.oup.com/2020/03/let-people-change-their-minds/• https://theconversation.com/no-youre-not-entitled-to-your-opinion-9978• https://blog.oup.com/2020/03/why-we-like-a-good-robot-story/robot: https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2018/08/episode-43-elder-on-friendship-robots.htmlhttps://aeon.co/videos/uncanny-is-this-humanoid-robot-a-curiosity-or-a-preview-of-a-post-human-world