Letter from Birmingham Jail By Martin Luther King Jr

Carefully examine the author’s use of the three principles of argument: appeals to logic, appeals to emotion, and appeals to credibility (or ethics). Your analysis should also include elements of a linguistic analysis discussing the author’s word choice. This may or may not be part of your analysis of rhetorical techniques (principles). Finally, you should also discuss/acknowledge the author’s audience and purpose of the argument and explain whether their argument is ultimately affective or ineffective. The introduction should include a very brief summary of the text you are analyzing. Be sure you clearly identify the text! Your introduction should also include your own thesis and the criteria you are establishing to judge the argument. The body of the essay should include your rhetorical analysis, any elements of linguistic analysis, and a discussion of the author’s audience/purpose. You should support your claims/analysis with examples from the text! Your conclusion should address the significance of your findings by answering one more of the following questions:How do the audience and/or purpose you have identified affect your understanding of the text?How do the appeals you have identified affect your understanding of the text?How do the linguistic devices you have identified affect your understanding of the text?How do these conclusions shed new light on the writer and/or the text?Why is it significant that the writer was addressing a certain audience or writing for a certain purpose?How do your conclusions differ from other possible assumptions about the audiencixce and purpose of this text?

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