Rhetorical Analysis Of Martin Luther King's Letter

Genre is the framework that the academic writing will be based on, and it is similar to a format where things can be expected to be appear at a certain point in writing. Genre is often determined by the rhetorical situation and can be change to increase the readability and complexity of an academic writing. Audience is part of a big rhetorical situation because rhetorical situation consists of many other factors like constraints, issue. Audience can changes the languages of the paper to adapt to the selected group of people. With restricted audience can sometimes affect the effectiveness of the paper. Rhetorical situation will the most important term to explain because it is the deciding factor for both genre and audience. Rhetorical situation is a situation where it demands a response according to Lloyd Bitzer.

My thesis is: In Martin Luther King’s paper, the technical use of audience and understanding the constraints of the rhetorical situation increases the overall impact of the writing and making the discourse a solution to the situation.
The whole terms will be explain thoroughly with Bitzer’s idea and how it is relating to Martin Luther King’s paper. In this body paragraph, I will describe the whole rhetorical situation of the letter and provide some background information for the reader to understand author’s intention and the detail writing situation. Constraints is the most important factor in his letter because of the topic that he is trying to discuss and argue about. Before the whole Civil Right movement, people take the issue of people of color very lightly. This is where I can analyze King’s approach in his paper, how he did not address the issue in the beginning of the paper and purpose a