25 Aug What specific exigencies gave rise to this speech? In other words, what caused the speech to come into existence, and what impact was it meant to have?
Assignment #1
Topic proposal on Martin Luther King “I have a dream” speech.
1: Explanatory Paragraph
A short paragraph detailing the “I have a dream” speech I have decided to analyze and why.
Link that needs to be used as reference:
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
2: Initial bibliography
An initial bibliography of 7 total academic journal articles, books, or book chapters in APA style that pertain to background on the speech.
The speaker’s life and work (biographical sources)
The immediate situation surrounding the speech
The broader historical moment
Assignment #2
Write summary of rhetorical situation sources.
Each annotation should be at least 80 words.
Choose 4 sources from your topic proposal ^ to write annotations on. An annotation is a summary of or notes on the source.
What specific exigencies gave rise to this speech? In other words, what caused the speech to come into existence, and what impact was it meant to have?
Who are the specific audiences for this speech? Do not simply say “everyone,” as no speech is given to everyone. Think about both who was in the room to hear the speech and who the speaker calls upon to take action.
What constraints did the speaker face when giving this speech? These could be material, institutional, political, social, racial, ideological, etc.
(Try to add as much detail as possible from these sources.)
Assignment #3
rhetorical situation section.
550-900 words (double-spaced, 12 pt, 1-inch margins; this is roughly 2-3 pages)
The draft should answer three questions:
What specific exigencies gave rise to this speech? In other words, what caused the speech to come into existence, and what impact was it meant to have?
Who are the specific audiences for this speech? Do not simply say “everyone,” as no speech is given to everyone. Think about both who was in the room to hear the speech and who the speaker calls upon to take action.
What constraints did the speaker face when giving this speech? These could be material, institutional, political, social, racial, ideological, etc.
To answer these questions, you should fully integrate the 4 sources that you did your Rhetorical Situation annotations ^on.
Please! incorporate one quality primary source into your rhetorical situation section draft, other than the speech itself. This could be a contemporaneous newspaper article, a report, a diary or letter from an archive, etc.
