1. Funnel Paragraphs
Topic Sentence:
What is the rhetorical strategy?
Set-up:
What is the context for the quote?
Quote:
What was said?
Summary and Analysis:
What was said and why did the
speaker say it that way? What
purpose did it serve?

2. Funnel Paragraphs
Topic Sentence:
What is the rhetorical strategy?
hourglass? Set-up:
What is the context for the quote?
Quote:
What was said?
Summary and Analysis:
What was said and why did the
speaker say it that way? What
purpose did it serve?

3. Sample Paragraph
My Injustice anywhere is a threat to
Quote justice everywhere. We are
caught in an inescapable
network of mutuality, tied in a
single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly,
affects all indirectly.

4. Sample Paragraph
Martin Luther King employs a
My framing device in order to depict
strategy his actions in Birmingham as
unifying rather than divisive.

5. Sample Paragraph
Early in the letter, King must
rebut the clergymen’s charge that
My his demonstrations are the acts of
set-up “outsiders” who are interfering
with the local issues of
Birmingham, Alabama.

6. Sample Paragraph
Notice how King deploys the neat
parallel structure contrasting
My “injustice anywhere” with
“justice everywhere.” He also
summary compares society to both a
network and--more prosaically--a
piece of clothing.

7. Sample Paragraph
King must do this in order to broaden
the perspective of the debate. If he
My allows the clergymen’s argument
that this is a “local” issue then his
analysis credibility with be weakened; he’ll
be that outside agitator they say her
is. If, on the other hand, he can make
this about Civil Rights in general, in
the entire United States, his role is
more secure.

8. Sample Paragraph
We should also acknowedge that the
entire enterprise of Civil Rights
More requires people to see themselves
more in terms of American-ness
analysis rather than in terms of race. King’s
audience must identify more with a
shared human destiny than in a
racial categorization in order for him
to be successful.

9. Putting it all together
topic Martin Luther King employs a framing device in order to depict his
actions in Birmingham as unifying rather than divisive. Early in the
sentence letter, King must rebut the clergymen’s charge that his
demonstrations are the acts of “outsiders” who are interfering with
the local issues of Birmingham, Alabama.
set-up
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are
caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single
quote garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all
indirectly.
Notice how King deploys the neat parallel structure contrasting
“injustice anywhere” with “justice everywhere.” He also compares
society to both a network and--more prosaically--a piece of clothing.
summary King must do this in order to broaden the perspective of the debate. If
he allows the clergymen’s argument that this is a “local” issue then
his credibility with be weakened; he’ll be that outside agitator they
say her is. If, on the other hand, he can make this about Civil Rights in
analysis general, in the entire United States, his role is more secure. We should
also acknowedge that the entire enterprise of Civil Rights requires
people to see themselves more in terms of American-ness rather than
in terms of race. King’s audience must identify more with a shared
human destiny than in a racial categorization in order for him to be
successful.

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