Toulmin Method Rhetorical Analysis

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The first element of Toulmin method is “claim” which Bok uses his personal story at Harvard campus to connect with his readers. His article appeals pathos that can get the readers’ emotion when Bok makes a strong argument about freedom of speech with his personal attachment to it. For example, Bok starts his article with the story of three students displaying Confederate flags and a swastika in public view at Harvard. These offensive actions brought up the huge argument whether or not free speech should be removed or protested by students. This event brought a massive argument on how much freedom of speech the students actually had; in other words, the university challenged the amount of “freedom” given to the students. Thus, being the president allows him has the familiarity with the university that helps him more connect with this readers. …show more content…
In his article, Bok fully expresses the answers for the audiences' questions about under what circumstances is his claim true. For example, Bok mentions about the Universities who have “enacted codes to protect their communities from forms of speech that are deemed to be insensitive to the feelings of other groups” (Bok 3). He implies that the university ignores and violates the First Amendment. Also, Harvard is more concerned about the Law than the feelings of offended Harvard students. Moreover, he took a strong stance on the incident with his qualifiers like “I share this view and regret…”(Bok 4). Another example of his effective qualifiers is when he use “ I suspect …The worst offenders will simply find other ways to irritate and insult” (Bok 11) that indicates he is a very careful with his diction and hate to offend anyone’s
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