We've Come a Long Way: Student Interaction and Creativity in Composition Courses

We've Come a Long Way: Student Interaction and Creativity in Composition Courses
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Letter From Birmingham Jail: A Manifestation of the Classical Sources of Persuasion



Letter From Birmingham Jail:
We will look at this together in class and identify where Dr. King appeals to the classical sources of persuasion (A&B ch 10).


http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html


Also, use this as a reference to identify the sources of persuasion:
http://courses.durhamtech.edu/perkins/aris.html




For your comment:

list a few passages where you think Dr. King effectively appeals to ethos and pathos and explain why. How is this example useful to you for composing essay #3?


Finally, write down ways you can appeal to logos in discourse.


Left to Right: Plato and Aristotle
-Really old rhetoricians!