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Instructions Choose ONE of the following questions. Write a clear and coherent essay of about 750 words in length in response to the question. In your essay, make sure that you answer the question asked. Organize your thoughts. Stick to the subject. Substantiate your argument and generalizations with well-chosen, concrete examples from the relevant texts.
Imagine that you are William Moraley and are still struggling to make it in colonial Philadelphia. You have just received a letter from your mother back in Newcastle who has read with great enthusiasm the advice of Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard"s Almanac. She wonders how you are getting along in America and whether you are applying Franklin"s lessons for achieving the good life. Write a letter back to your mother in which you respond to her questions
Additional Instructions Do NOT consult additional sources, conduct further research, or search the internet for clues or answers. Develop your answer from a critical reading of the evidence in Discovering. In evaluating the documents, be sure to consult Tips for Critical ReadingPreview the documentView in a new window, Working with SourcesPreview the documentView in a new window, and Conventions for Writing in HistoryPreview the documentView in a new window. Strive to conform your essay to the advice in the Style Sheet for WritingPreview the documentView in a new window.
Be sure to document your sources with both an in-text reference to the source and a parenthetical citation to exact page of the quotation or paraphrase. For example: In her essay "On the Equality of the Sexes," Judith Sargent Murray challenged the assumption that the minds of women are "notoriously deficient or unequal" (Give Me Liberty, p. 292).
Instructions Choose ONE of the following questions. Write a clear and coherent essay of about 750 words in length in response to the question. In your essay, make sure that you answer the question asked. Organize your thoughts. Stick to the subject. Substantiate your argument and generalizations with well-chosen, concrete examples from the relevant texts.
Imagine that you are William Moraley and are still struggling to make it in colonial Philadelphia. You have just received a letter from your mother back in Newcastle who has read with great enthusiasm the advice of Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard"s Almanac. She wonders how you are getting along in America and whether you are applying Franklin"s lessons for achieving the good life. Write a letter back to your mother in which you respond to her questions
Additional Instructions Do NOT consult additional sources, conduct further research, or search the internet for clues or answers. Develop your answer from a critical reading of the evidence in Discovering. In evaluating the documents, be sure to consult Tips for Critical ReadingPreview the documentView in a new window, Working with SourcesPreview the documentView in a new window, and Conventions for Writing in HistoryPreview the documentView in a new window. Strive to conform your essay to the advice in the Style Sheet for WritingPreview the documentView in a new window.
Be sure to document your sources with both an in-text reference to the source and a parenthetical citation to exact page of the quotation or paraphrase. For example: In her essay "On the Equality of the Sexes," Judith Sargent Murray challenged the assumption that the minds of women are "notoriously deficient or unequal" (Give Me Liberty, p. 292).
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