Analyze the use of appeals in Jefferson’s draft and the published version of the Declaration of Independence. Your job is to analyze both how Jefferson envisions an audience – what does he do to engage that original audience and how the revision by the Committee of Five (the version published) shifts the focus of the Declaration by re-envisioning how to engage its audience. This is NOT a compare/contrast essay. This is an analysis of how appeals work and how, by shifting the focus, one shifts one’s appeals to achieve particular effects on an audience.
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