Précis Frame (“Rhetorical Précis – description and examples,” n.d.) – Then-senator of the United States, Barack Obama, in his speech, A More Perfect Union, delivered at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, addresses the topic of race in America and argues that both the black and white populations hold many reservations that tie them back from creating a true union.
He/she supports this claim by condemning his pastor’s comments, then talking about his own multicultural upbringing, then discussing the shared woes of the black and white communities, and finally concluding that racial tensions are a problem America must move past from.
Obama’s purpose is to discuss race in relation to his pastor’s words in order to make his own position stronger, advocate for change and support his political campaign.
He adopts a confident yet caring tone for his audience, the readers of and others interested in the topic of racial relations in the US.
Reference
Rhetorical Précis – description and examples. (n.d.). Cuyamaca College. Web.