Construct Samuel Seabury’s critique of Alexander Hamilton’s “A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress” contained in Seabury’s “A View of the Controversy between England and her Colonies” and Hamilton’s reply to Seabury in “The Farmer Refuted.” Who has the better argument–Seabury or Hamilton? Why? (Note: Make sure most of your post–at least 3/4ths–is spent constructing the arguments of Seabury and Hamilton).
Additional Instructions:
1. Your own post should not be one long paragraph. Break it into separate paragraphs.
2. Provide parenthetical references to line numbers for direct quotes but also for any specific passages to which you refer.
3. Avoid opining or speculating. Stick to answering the prompt from the text.
4. Avoid generalizing. Avoid broad statements. Make your points as precisely as possible–especially when putting a point from the text in your own words. Don’t strengthen or weaken the point in the text (in this case, in the mouth of a character in the dialogue).
5. Salient quotations to illustrate a point are good. But avoid over-quoting too. For the purposes of discussion, you answer should not be taken up by more than 20% quotation.
6. Your reply to another student should be longer than just a few lines. Make it at 4-5 sentences long.
Construct Samuel Seabury’s critique of Alexander Hamilton’s “A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress” contained in Seabury’s “A View of the Controversy between England and her Colonies” and Hamilton’s reply to Seabury in “The Farmer Refuted.” Who has the better argument–Seabury or Hamilton? Why? (Note: Make sure most of your post–at least 3/4ths–is spent constructing the arguments of Seabury and Hamilton).
Additional Instructions:
1. Your own post should not be one long paragraph. Break it into separate paragraphs.
2. Provide parenthetical references to line numbers for direct quotes but also for any specific passages to which you refer.
3. Avoid opining or speculating. Stick to answering the prompt from the text.
4. Avoid generalizing. Avoid broad statements. Make your points as precisely as possible–especially when putting a point from the text in your own words. Don’t strengthen or weaken the point in the text (in this case, in the mouth of a character in the dialogue).
5. Salient quotations to illustrate a point are good. But avoid over-quoting too. For the purposes of discussion, you answer should not be taken up by more than 20% quotation.
6. Your reply to another student should be longer than just a few lines. Make it at 4-5 sentences long.
