Cameron Rhetorical Analysis about The Declaration of Independence Paper Assignment: For this essay, you need to write a detailed rhetorical analysis. To do

Cameron Rhetorical Analysis about The Declaration of Independence Paper Assignment: For this essay, you need to write a detailed rhetorical analysis. To do this, you must first discern what argument the author is making, whether implicitly or directly stated. In other words, answer the following question: “What message or statement is the author making?” After arriving at the answer, analyze the effectiveness of the argument and how the argument persuades or does not persuade its intended audience. This does not mean you are to agree or disagree with the subject; rather, you should critique the author’s use of rhetorical techniques to persuade the reader (ethos/credibility of presentation, logos/logical approach and topic, pathos/approach toward audience).

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Objectives:
? To recognize the pervasiveness of argument outside of traditional debate and critique an argument on academic (as opposed to emotional) grounds.

? To analyze the rhetorical situation of an argument, such as the following:o The intended audience

The argument’s context (social,cultural,political,economic,religious,etc) The purpose ofthe work (intentofauthor,goalofargument)
? To understand how the author employs rhetorical techniques, such as claims, warrants, the rhetorical triangle (logos, ethos, pathos), and word choice as methods of persuasion/argumentation.
? To learn how to identify errors in reasoning, including faulty logic or rhetorical fallacies.
? To write an essay that is thoroughly developed and logically organized.
? To incorporate in-text citations and develop a Works Cited page.
? To achieve a tone through content presentation that is both accessible and academic.Essay Requirements:
MLA style in-text citation and Work Cited page construction
Essay must be written in present-tense voice
Length: 3-4 complete pages, typed, double-spaced
12 point font (Times New Roman preferred)
Use of original text as source material, including direct quotations, paraphrases of quotations,and summary statements in lieu of a direct reference of text as basis for the analysis.Organization of the Essay:
The introduction should accomplish the following tasks:
Introduce the author of the text and the work to which you are responding/analyzing
Provide a brief synopsis of the work and the author’s implicit or explicit argument(summary)
State your thesis, which will allude to your evaluation on the effectiveness of theargument based on your analysis of how the author approached his/her Purpose + Intended Audience + Context of the argument.In the body of the essay, analyze how the author uses the various rhetorical techniques to make an argument. Do not incorporate all of the rhetorical techniques in one paragraph; instead, find a consistent, coherent, and unified organizational pattern to establish the critique of the argument.

Consider the following as guiding themes to be covered in the body paragraphs:

What is the context and purpose of the argument? Does the writer achieve the goal according tothe context and purpose?
Who is the author’s intended audience? How do you know? How does the author connect ornot connect with that audience?
Is the argument made through logos? Pathos? Ethos? Which type of the rhetorical triangle isused most or least; is this effective or ineffective in persuading a reader based on the purpose ofthe text?
What language style does the author use (academic, slang, everyday speak, poetic or musical,etc)? What effect does this have? Is the language related to the logos, ethos, or pathos?
What assumptions (or warrants) does the author make? Based on intended audience, are thoseassumptions valid or invalid? Does the author employ logical fallacies? How and where?The conclusion should accomplish the following:
Summarize your argument on the author’s work (again, do not voice your opinion on theargument itself; rather, argue your feelings about the presentation and rhetorical techniquesused by the author).
Consider offering advice on how the author’s work could be more effective according to therhetorical situation or rhetorical techniques that may or may not have been present in the text as published.Essay Assignment Text Both Thomas Jefferson and Ma
pantheon of American historical figures. The following two
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use of concise and powerful language, which he employs both to enumerate British
porary humankind: freedom. Jefferson creates a doctrine that is powerful owing to his
offenses and to call on his fellow Americans to revolt if need be. While his list of grievances
Jefferson was a product of the Enlightenment, when philosophers had finally turned
may seem unquestionably correct to the contemporary mind, one must consider that
their attention to the primacy of individual rights after millennia of living under monarchic
rule. King also provides us with the powerful theme of freedom in his famous speech;
many biblical references, and his rhetoric is that of the sermon. You should consider why
while his reflections address the peculiarly American racial divide, his style contains
these two documents, regardless of their historical context, seem to be milestones in our
nation’s history.
The Declaration of Independence
In Congress, July 4, 1776
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was governor of Virginia during the American
Revolution, America’s first secretary of state, and the third president of the United
States. He had a varied and monumental career as politician, public servant, scientist,
architect, educator (he founded the University of Virginia), and man of letters,
Jefferson attended the Continental Congress in 1775, where he wrote the rough draft
of the Declaration of Independence. Other hands made contributions to the document
that was signed on July 4, 1776, but the wording, style
, structure, and spirit of the
final version are distinctly Jefferson’s. Like Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin
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James Madison, and other major figures of the Revolutionary era, Jefferson was
notable for his use of prose as an instrument for social and political change
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statement of revolutionary principles that makes the document one of the best-known
Declaration of Independence, we see the direct, precise, logical, and persuasive
and best-written texts in world history. Jefferson died in his home at Monticello on
July 4, 50 years to the day from the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dis- 1
solve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume
among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws
of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
separation
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that 2
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed.—That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such prin-
ciples and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most
likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that
Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolish-
ing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses
and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to
throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future secu-
rity.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now
the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Govern-
ment. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated
injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an
absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a
candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for 3
the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing 4
importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained;
and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of 5
people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the
Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, 6
and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of
fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly 7
firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be 8
elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned
to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time
exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
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He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose
encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropria
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the
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He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of
pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they
should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
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For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing
therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once
an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering funda-
mentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power
to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
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He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and
waging War against us.
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destroyed the lives of our people.
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He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete
Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally
the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of
Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear
unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
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Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
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on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring 20
undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the 21
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most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated
Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a
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Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have 22
warned them from time to time of
attempts by their legislature to extend an unwar-
rantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our
emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and
nanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow
these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspon-
dence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We
must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and
hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General 23
Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the recti-
tude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of
these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are,
and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved
from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between
them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that
as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace,
contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things
which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to
each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
COMPREHENSION
1. Explain Jefferson’s main and subordinate purposes in this document.
2. What is Jefferson’s key assertion or argument? Mention several reasons that he gives
to support his argument.
3. Summarize Jefferson’s definition of human nature and government.
RHETORIC
2. Jefferson and his colleagues had to draft a document designed for several audiences.
1. There are many striking words and phrases in the Declaration of Independence,
notably in the beginning. Locate three such examples, and explain their connotative
power and effectiveness.
What audiences did they have in mind? How do their language and style reflect their
awareness of multiple audiences?

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