Letter from birmingham jail outline

Ling 281 Fall 2018 Paper #2 – Analysis of Persuasive Appeals and Rhetorical Strategies Minimum 1400 words Write an analysis of an academic text’s argument, with particular emphasis on rhetorical strategies. Use MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to demonstrate an understanding of “persuasive appeal” and “rhetorical strategy.” Ultimately, your paper will demonstrate an explicit knowledge of choices authors make to inform, influence, or persuade audiences. To be successful, this analysis will include the following components: 1. An introduction that introduces your project to the reader and describes the work to be done in the body of the paper. a. Preview the general organization of your paper b. Preview the key questions your paper addresses c. State your claim and reason concerning what you notice about the rhetorical choices authors make 2. An explanation of the authors’ central claim and reason, as well as background on the author, the audience, the social context, the place of publication 3. A discussion of the authors’ use of persuasive appeals. You may decide to discuss logos (logic), pathos (emotion), and ethos (credibility), or you may decide to discuss only one of these appeals. These appeals are achieved by using rhetorical strategies, so your investigation will begin by identifying a strategy and then showing how it persuades through logic, emotion, and/or credibility. 4. A conclusion that tells the significance or consequence of understanding persuasive appeals. Although these sections are listed separately, your paper will link them through smooth transitions. Remember that you will need to provide quoting and examples to support your claim. Due Dates: 10/16 – Outline due; in-class writing 10/23 - submit revised paper to turnitin on Blackboard 11/9 – final draft of paper 2 submitted to turnitin on Blackboard Letter From Birmingham Jail 1 AUGUST 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. From the Birmingham jail, where he was imprisoned as a participant in nonviolent demonstrations against segregation, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote in longhand the letter which follows. It was his response to a public statement of concern and caution issued by eight white religious leaders of the South. Dr. King, who was born in 1929, did his undergraduate work at Morehouse College; attended the integrated Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, one of six black pupils among a hundred students, and the president of his class; and won a fellowship to Boston University for his Ph.D. WHILE confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling our present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms. I think I should give the reason for my being in Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the argument of "outsiders coming in." I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every Southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. We have some eighty-five affiliate organizations all across the South, one being the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Whenever necessary and possible, we share staff, educational and financial resources with our affiliates. Several months ago our local affiliate here in Birmingham invited us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct-action program if such were deemed necessary. We readily consented, and when the hour came we lived up to our promises.