Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

THREE APPEALS ESSAY

Assignment:

Write an 800-1000 word essay which discusses the three appeals Martin Luther King, Jr makes in his Letter from the Birmingham Jail. What devices does the speaker use to appeal to the reader? How are the appeals created by these devices? Identifying, evaluating, and analyzing the connections between the appeals (Ethos, Logos, and Pathos) and the devices the speaker uses to create them should be the focus of the essay.

 The text of the letter can be found here: http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf

The essay is due on 10/26 by 3PM.

The essay should be double-spaced and submitted by email as a word document to patgar1@gpsk12.org.

Please have your name as part of the file name (For example, BillThompsonThreeAppeals.doc).