Billy Collins is a well known American poet

Billy Collins used the three elements, genre, audience and purpose, in a simpler, more direct way. He also used humor to help deliver his message to his audience.

intended audience were the eight white clergymen

King’s purpose is to stop segregation

This letter pushed the nonviolent protest against segregation. The genre that King used was a letter. He chose to do a letter instead of an essay because a letter can be mailed directly to someone from prison. By using a letter, he could get his message to the eight white clergymen directly

Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist in the civil rights movement in 1955. The Civil Rights Movement was a movement that fought for equality between the African Americans and whites. They fought for equal employment, education, housing, the right to vote, the right to use any public facility, and the right to be free from racial discrimination. King was put in jail because he fought for this cause.

readers knowledge

Purpose, as defined by Blau and Burak in Writing in the Works, is “the big idea

Anzaldua, Gloria. How to Tame a Wild Tongue. https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf. King, Martin Luther. Letter From Birmingham Jail. https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf.  Poet Laureate Billy Collins Gives Brilliand and Witty Commencement Address at Colorado College, 2008, https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm. 

He also makes his purpose clear

he previously shown light humor in his speech was used to loosen up his audience

Secondly,

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail is simply just a written letter that he wrote from a jail cell to be read by eight clergymen

The purpose was for the clergymen to take action

King’s audience, the clergymen

Making a successful piece of writing requires three major moving parts. These parts include the genre, audience, and purpose. Although these words do not mean the same thing, they all connect to each other to create a point. Successful utilization of the genre, audience and purpose prove theory of writing. The three sources to be analyzed have each successfully proved the theory of writing in their own unique way. These sources include  Billy Collins’ Commencement Address, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter From Birmingham Jail, and Gloria Anzaldua’s How to Tame a Wild Tongue.

successful piece of writing.

One more piece is How to Tame a Wild Tongue by Gloria Anzaldua.

ingstons audience is a group of graduates

Another piece by Donovan Livingston was also a speech to a group of graduates

In the big picture he utilizes this strategy to make the audience more comfortable from the use of comedic effects.

Collins adds that he is addressing the graduates. Collins shows use of audience in a very effective way. He directly tells the audience that he knows they don’t want to hear the speech but he continues, “ It is well-known in the world of public speaking that there is no pleasure you can give an audience that compares to the pleasure they get when it is over, so you can look forward to experiencing that pleasure 13 minutes from now.”

Collins showed genre by telling the readers that he is speaking to them as an address

Billy Collins who spoke at a commencement address and presented in a different way

There is many thoughts and personal definitions of what the words genre, audience, and rhetorical situation means to the certain people.

Collins, Billy “Colorado College Commencement Speech”. May 19 2008. Graduation wisdom https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm     Livingston, Donovan. “Harvard Commencement”. The Singju Post. May 25, 2016 https://www.facebook.com/HarvardEducation/videos/10153893399331387   Anzaldua Gloria. “How to Tame Wild Tongue”, 1987. Borderlands/ La Frontera https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf

her language was her.

She is speaking to people who have experienced the same thing as her.

his ties in with Collins’ purpose, which is to inspire.

His purpose for writing this lette

These references help his message get across to the intended reader.

biblical messages

The genre of this piece is a letter. King chose to write a letter because they are usually informal, personal, and are meant to go to someone specific.

This can be seen in Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Billy Collins’ commencement address, and Gloria Anzaldúa’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.”

Blau and Burak describe the rhetorical situation as “what you want to communicate and to whom.” (Blau and Burak, 3)

Anzaldúa, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. 1987. Web. https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf Blau, Susan, and Kathryn Burak. “Writing in the Works.” Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Print. Collins, Billy. “Billy Collins Commencement Address.” Colorado College. May 19, 2008. Web. https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm King, Martin Luther, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” August 1963. Web. https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf  

Do I need to work on my paragraph transitions? Did I quote enough evidence? Is my theory of writing clear? Did I cite my essay correctly?

artin Luther King Jr has his audience smaller than Anzaldua and Livingstons. Kings audience is towards eight white religious leaders in the South. In the passage, it states “we went through postponement after postponement to aid in this community need” (page 2). King wants to help the community by changing it. He believes that there should not be any segregation. He wants everyone to be together and not separated. Kings tone is very traditional. He is serious about the situation. King wanted a nonviolent action. If there was violence, nothing would have changed, and everything would be worse. Doing a nonviolent action would make a change and it would be a better solution. Kings message is to end segregation. He wants black people to have a better life.

The audience is towards to the graduating class

Every time she spoke either of the languages, she would get corrected or yelled at for speaking Spanglish. In the passage, it states “I will no longer be made feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white” (page 40). This means that Anzaldua is embracing who she is and not feeling embarrassed that she speaks two different languages. Anzaldua is also realizing that she has a voice and can speak whatever language she wants without getting corrected or yelled at. She is trying to get her audience and readers to not be ashamed of who they are and just to be themselves. Her audience is intended to the people who can relate to her and her struggles. Her tone is harsh because while she was growing up people was very rude to her. Anzaldua’s message is that no one should feel ashamed of who they are. She wants them to not be afraid of doing something that is not normal to do in their culture.

In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Anzaldua spoke both improper English and improper Spanish.

Blau and Burak definition

“genre: what type of text you are writing” (page 3)

In Writing in the Works, it states

you will

Anzaldua, Gloria. How to Tame a Wild Tongue. Blau, Susan, and Kathryn Burak. Writing in the Works. Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2017. “Donovan Livingston’s Student Speech.” Facebook Watch, www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10153893399331387. King, Martin Luther. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Letter from Birmingham Jail, Penguin, 2018.

I made some changes to my draft when someone gives me feedback.

Lastly, He states, “ injustice is telling them theyr’e stars, without ackowledging the night that surrounds them. Injustice is telling them that education is the key. While you continue to change the locks, education is no equalizer…Wake up every child of their celestial potential. “

with the audience

The pupose of his speech is to be positive, inpspire

he’s writing a letter

In addition to that

Represents how her essay wasn’t written just for her nationality, but many of them.

empthize

memior)

Her writing isnt for any particular audience, it can attract anybody who values he

In regards to that,

How to tame a wild tongue,” by …” letter from birmingham jail.” by …. And the spoken commencemnet by ….. To indentify , and understand how they contrasted those three key terms: genre, audience and purpose, to make a succeful piece of writing. 

you want to do

Work Cited: Anzaldua, Gloria. How to Tame a Wild Tongue.   https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf King, Martin Luther. Letter from Birminham jail. https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf Donovan Livingstons. Spoken word commencement. https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf  

your genre,

The three of which, are a cycle that endlessly intersects and remain perpendicular to one another.

What writing is, is

show everyone

was to teach

purpose for writing the piece How to Tame a Wild Tongue, being that language identity is, as stated, an identity. Language should be something to take pride in, not shame. Anzaldúa makes this quite clear.

He connects with his audience

he uses this visit to the dentist’s office to convey a metaphorical experience that she references throughout the piece.

categorized as inspirational poetry.

Collins’ addresses his audience and reader with self-deprecating humor. “Is there anyone who knows more about these issues than I… I’m the one who wasn’t smart enough to wear sunglasses this morning.”

writes a memoir and personal essay to express the difficulties of borders and glass ceilings. She also employs the use of story elements,

To whom am I writing for and what am I trying to accomplish through my writing? In what category can my writing be placed in, and how do I want to establish my voice? Is there a certain way my writing should be organized to better establish my purpose to my audience?

Anzaldúa, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books, 2012. Everettsd. Web. 22nd of Sept. 2019. https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf Blau, Susan, and Kathryn Burak. Writing in the Works. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Print. Collins, Billy. “Graduation Wisdom: The Best Commencement Speeches and Quotes.” Poet Laureate Billy Collins Gives Brilliant and Witty Commencement Address at Colorado College, 2008, 19th of May 2008. 22nd of Sept. 2019. https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm. Livingston, Donovan. “Lift Off.” Harvard Graduate School of Education, 25 May 2016. 22nd of Sept. 2019. https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/16/05/lift.

, as it’s not often one might be called upon to look at the bigger picture.

Martin Luther King Jr, his audience was way much smaller than Anzaldua and Livingston. King audience was only meant for the eight white religious leaders in the South. In the passage it states, “we went through postponement after postponement to aid in this community need.” King is saying he wants to change how the community is. He believes the segregation is not what the community needs. He wants to change the world to become a better place than it was before. King tone is very formal, he is serious about the situation, but he also isn’t being rude about it. King wanted to have a nonviolent action, because if they had a violent action, nothing will be solved, and it will become worse. He believed a nonviolent action was the better solution. King message was to end segregation and give black people a better life.

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In commencement addresses, they talk about what they experience or what they are experiencing right now

they talk

Anzaldua message is nobody should feel shamed or afraid to do something because it isn’t considered to be a normal thing by a culture.

o her audience, her readers

they speak differently

n How to Tame a Wild Tongue, Anzaldua grew up speaking improper English and improper Spanish.

if you know

The genre, audience, and the purpose connects t

definition to genre is more focus

genre: what type of text you are writing”.

In the Writing in the Works, it states

The three pieces I chose to use are, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua, Donovan Livingston Commencement Address, and Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”.

we asked ourselves

This is how rhetorical situations comes in, we as a writer, ask sets of questions

communication, for some people,

and also rhetorical situation, the circumstance of an event that consists an issue, audience, and a set of constraints.

what is our reason to write

Anzaldúa, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. King, Martin Luther, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Blau, Susan, and Kathryn Burak. Writing in the Works.

After describing the difference between the ‘pragmatic’ and ‘poetic’ thinker, Collin’s explains how the poetic thinker has the ability to slow time down: to view the present as endless rather than fleeting, to understand the potential of what you can accomplish in a moment. C

To give such an address is also to walk through a minefield of clichés. Most of which I don’t believe anyway.”

An explicit address of their concerns.

e. He does what so many commencement addresses fail to do, fully acknowledge the fact that very few are eager to engage.

is much lighter, it flourishes

choice is poetry. I

Are we truly in our instructors best interest? 

“Injustice is telling them they are stars, without acknowledging the night around them.”

mirrors King’s, however it’s

His purpose

This is an attempt to encompass the vast dispersion of readers, assure them that his upcoming sentiments are universal to all.

Harvard graduates

more progressed

In choosing this King reaches his audience directly, void of distraction. 

He chooses the letter genre

“and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son asking in agonizing pathos, “Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?”

It’s what drives the piece, similar to How to Tame a Wild Tongue however in a much more direct address.

“I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.”

His audience, although white moderates were still a difficult sell

Letter from Birmingham jail

acute comprehension of his audience drives the price adequately.

Genre, being a specific classification;  audience, being those who listen; and purpose, which is where the writer pulls from: the passion they choose to convey.

an unwilling to listen audience

Collin’s

each of their favors.

4 magnificent

You decide

In the second draft, I tried sharpen my analysis of audience. I added a few topic sentences to each structural paragraph, as Dr. Tinberg suggested.  I also deleted How to Tame a Wild Tongue’s analysis, I was only supposed to do 3 and I felt it was the weakest.

Collins, Billy. “Colorado College Commencement Speech” . May 19 , 2008. Graduation wisdom. https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm September 21 , 2019      King, Martin Luther Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” . June 12, 1963. https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf September 22 , 2019      Livingston, Donovan . “Harvard Commencement” .  May 25, 2016. https://singjupost.com/full-transcript-donovan-livingstons-harvard-graduate-school-of-education-student-speech/ September 21, 2019 .      

Another, very unique example would be the “Spoken Word Commencement Address” given at Harvard in 2016 by Donovan Livingston. It takes place in an entirely different medium than that of Doctor King’s Letter or Anzaldua’s personal story. Though reading through a transcript of the poem can still convey the message, the power and importance of the rhythm can only be conveyed through hearing Livingston speak it. Among everything in his speech, the purpose is most important to Livingston’s writing. The idea that he wishes to convey is that all the graduating students, that anyone educated has the responsibility to pass their knowledge on and support the next generation, “Wake up every child so they know of their celestial potential. I’ve been a Black hole in the classroom for far too long; Absorbing everything, without allowing my light escape. But those days are done. I belong among the stars. And so do you. And so do they.”. Given the shorter nature of poetry, his message is made even more clear.

Anzuldua’s entire work is almost auto-biographical, constantly threading in anecdotes about her childhood and life experience while getting across her message. This hybrid sort of genre

what the writing is meant to be doing

entire purpose of it.

follows the structure of a very formal and thorough letter.

This sense of respect that Doctor King leads with directly influenced the genre of his piece

In this tone of respect he takes on, he not only effectively addresses the men the letter is directly intended for but also for any that may read it and think the same way as them.

Igniting the entire process and leading to every other part of the rhetorical situation of writing.

who you

The three most important terms in this process, Audience, Genre, and Purpose, are all intertwined with each other, and regardless of medium the writing might take must always be considered. 

same way any work of writing.

Livingston, Donovan. “Lift Off.” Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2016, www.gse.harvard.edu/news/16/05/lift. Anzaldúa Gloria, et al. Borderlands: the New Mestiza = La Frontera. Aunt Lute Books, 2012. King, Martin Luther. “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” Web.cn.edu, 1964, web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf.

how great writing is made.

you are writing

engages an audience that consists of foreigners who have dealt with a similar issue that she has, which is involving the development of borders surrounding their culture.

writing was also a speech

ngaged his audience

Billy Collins intended to reach out to the graduates with a commencement speech

artin Luther King Jr ‘s writing was also a speech

he uses a letter format for the speech he is given.  

There are

Collins Commencement

there form

what type of text you are writing”

you need

you will be in very good shape.

Gloria’s intended audience are people just like her

Gloria

audience

Donovan Livingston’s commencement address is about fighting for inequality and inspiring his fellow students.

Mr. King’s audience for the letter is aimed towards the white man.

Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, is about not being able to have a non violent protest regarding the inequality of the negro communit

Mr. Kings genre would be the inequality of the negro community, as all he wanted was to peacefully protest.

Purpose is defined as the reason for which something is done. Every story has a main idea. The intent of the main idea is to showcase its purpose

One of these reasons is rhetorical situation. This is when authors try to describe certain choices and judgements through noting them in a passage when they are writing.

Work Cited  Martin Luther King  https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf   Donovan Livingston  https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/16/05/lift    Gloria Anzaldua https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf

As revered as all three of these pieces are, I feel like Dr, King’s was the best, and felt that I need to be critical of Livingston’s.  King’s letter is revered for a reason. Written almost 60 years ago, it still inspires some who read it to act or at least advocate for social, racial, or sexual acceptance. Billy Collins’ speech ID rate as a B, (not this isn’t on academic scale, just mine, so take it with a grain of salt) It was a well written and I’m sure well delivered speech but it didn’t seem so stand out as the other two sources did.  

Who was this poem meant for? Was it written in preparation for Livingston’s commencement, Why was it written?    

People tones

e graduating class at Harvard,

illy Collins commencement speech is like many others in its message, most graduation speeches all have the same clichés about moving forward in life

King also believes that his movement can be swayed by the support of the population of white moderates. In paragraph 19 he states, “I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate.” (King pp19) He goes on to talk about his frustration that most whites are more devoted to order rather than justice. The people he is referring to are in support of his cause, but not his methods. Although this letter was just meant to other members of the churc

king achieves with this letter is bringing the severe

clergymen

Kings fellow

A revered piece from the late southern reverend who fought the severe racial oppression. 

Dr. Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham jail.

The purpose of your paper is up to you, but your intention should be clear, and your thesis should reflect deep thinking on the subject.

you pick

I find Genre

As humans have grown and writing and education has spread.

Works cited:  “The Letter from the Birmingham Jail.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Luther-King-Jr/The-letter-from-the-Birmingham-jail.  Poet Laureate Billy Collins Gives Brilliand and Witty Commencement Address at Colorado College, 2008, www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm.  “Lift Off.” Harvard Graduate School of Education, www.gse.harvard.edu/news/16/05/lift. 

Martin Luther King endure an audience like no other.

He wants teachers to help students set their voices free, to discover what their minds are capable of and to achieve their dreams.  Livingston asks what good is all our obtained knowledge without putting it to use? He further elaborates on his feelings about how our education today is operated. He discusses how, as students, our minds are supposed to be trying to escape the common and to attain their abstract potential.   The purpose of his speech was by his design meant to encourage his and motivate his fellow classmates.  He makes this clear when he asks them “to join him in the deliverance of the spoken word poem by snapping clapping, or throwing up their hands, as way to participate with him for the next several minutes.” 

“the locks change.”

reach students

At the core, none of us were meant to be common, we were born to be comets darting across space and time.”

Donovan Livingston gave a phenomenal speech, which included, as he described ‘spoken word poetry.

His focus audience was the graduating class and they could easily relate with Collins, expanding their interest in what he had to say. Collins also chose a very direct route to establish his genre of writing,

Reading Billy Collins’ commencement speech he gave at the 2008 Colorado college had an impact on me that was different from anything I had experienced;

was his sole purpose of the speech.

 Collins audience

Citations: Collins, billy. “Billy Collins.” Poet Laureate Billy Collins Gives Brilliand and Witty Commencement Address at Colorado College, 2008, 19 May 2008, www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm. King, Martin Luther. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963, web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf. Livingston’s, Donovan. “Donovan Livingston’s Student Speech.” Facebook Watch, 25 May 2016, www.facebook.com/HarvardEducation/videos/10153893399331387.

Collin’s purpose. He wanted his classmates to go out

his fellow graduates

Billy Collins writing work is one of the most well known types of writing done in our moment in history

is a consider to an autobiography

Gloria Anazuldua is famously known for her writing, How to Tame a Wild Tongue

these future educators to be a beacon of light for these students and help them succeed in their lives

The purpose of the speech falls shortly after this

Livingston speech, unlike most commencement addresses, is a poem

went through in trying to get a good education along with sharing his own struggles  being a man of color trying to get a good education. From this he sheds light onto his hopes for the future of the education system. He goes further

this speech

uses these three words

Purpose, the reason why you write your story