CL 3/3

Warrant: unspoken values a writer thinks he shares with his readers. (These warrants are shaped and come from the discourse).
Specific Discourse Community: White Supremacists.
Argument Style: (evidence, reason, format, genre of writing), which is derived from his discourse community.
Knowledge: Made from discourses, and uses Multiliteracies for individual members to use.

Rhetorical Appeal: Trustworthy & Emotional Appeal (Making a Plea?/ Humanizing the Essay, as well as himself/race).
Readers: People who were not educated on the issue that he is presenting. (White readers, those who don’t share his views).
Writer: A respected figure, who has strong views on the subjects around; African Americans, Slavery, and the Treatment of Blacks, in America.
The Gap: People don’t understand the perspective that African Americans have, and what challenges they have to face on a day to day life due to the color of their skin.
(Disadvantages, and why these struggles are important to know).
Issue: The struggles that African Americans face in longing for the chance to be accepted in their country, as Americans, not as just Blacks. (Specifically African American rights, and suffrage).
Claim: Du Bois is wanting to make it possible for ‘Blacks’ to also be viewed as Americans, without them facing hate by their peers, and without them losing their ability to have self-development and access to life’s opportunities. . .(Free Men are fighting for their Denied Freedoms and Rights).