Principles:"Put yourself in their shoes"; "Know where you are going"; "Use signal verbs that fit the action" (TSIS, "Her Point Is: The Art of Summarizing").
Demonstration: Developing a Critical Response Introduction
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to deliver a social critique to a mixed audience numbering over 200,000. In the speech, "I Have a Dream," Kingargues that despite Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation issued one hundred years before America has not yet become a land of equal opportunity for all. The main purpose of King's speech is to identify the problem of injustice and to push the country toward a peaceful and fair solution. In fact, King, as a social Moses, lays out a positive vision of how America might enter the Promised Land racial equality.
In this study, I examine how King opens his famous speech. In my judgment, although King's tone shifts significantly between paragraphs two and three, his opening is largely effective because even as it invokes Lincoln's former speech it adapts the Exodus narrative.
Discussion:
How has the rhetorical model been incorporated into my opening?
How does the summary/introduction set up my specific thesis and overall paper?
What do you think should follow in paper and why?