Students in this course will develop their research and writing skills in preparation for writing a thesis length essay in PHIL 488 Senior Capstone II. Participants will learn to do research and writing by way of library instruction, peer-review writing, and bibliographic development. This teaching-learning process will necessarily involve "awakening the 'teacher within'" by requiring all participants to assume the role of teaching the seminar some aspect of their research. The essays the students produce in this seminar will subsequently be evaluated by the Philosophy Department as a whole and not solely by the seminar's instructor of record.