President John F. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Address, June 11, 1963 . That being the primary source and A secondary source supporting . The essay must answer these 10 questions.
1.Who wrote the document? Until you know this you know little about the document. Sometimes you can figure this out from the document itself. Was the author a political or private individual? Was he educated or not?
2.Who was the intended audience/who was the letter or speech written to? This will tell you about the author’s use of language and the knowledge that he assumed on the part of the reader.
3.What is the story line? What is going on in the document?
4.Why was the document written? Everything is written for a reason. Is it just a random note, or a scholarly?
5.What type of document is this, or what is its purpose? A newspaper article is different than a diary. Thus, one can expect to extract different kinds of information from different kinds of documents. A private letter to a friend is very different from a political letter written to discuss governmental matters.
6.What are the basic assumptions made by the author? For example, did the author assume that the reader could understand certain foreign or engineering terms?
7.Can you believe this document? Is it reliable? Is it likely? This should be more than a yes or no answer. What makes it believable or not?
