you are trying

Writing is used all around the world. It is used to express emotions and to tell a story

Work Cited  Anzaldua, Gloria “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” 1987.  [https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf] 29 Sept. 2019  Collins, Billy “Commencement Address” 2007 [http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm] 29 Sept. 2019 Livingston, Donovan “Spoken Word Commencement Address” 2016 [ https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/16/05/lift] 29 Spet. 2019

I took my professors advice and I took out parts of the draft that drew aways the focus of the writing and areas were it looked like I was rambling on. I added more evidence to my sources and added in better topic sentences for each paragraph. 

f all the medical procedures that I had to type out for my portfolio at my high school. Each time in shop when we went over a medical procedure, we would have to write about how to perform the

racist clergymen, some were

  “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote in longhand the letter which follows. It was his   response to a public statement of concern and caution issued by eight white

Anzaldua’s purpose was to educate those who do not know the   struggle of living on a border, of being an outcast

to educate his readers, he wanted to try and make

Purpose, what it is that you are trying to accomplish, trying to inspire

she is, she referred to her past in phrases   that the reader could understand, but at the same time educate as well. The

13 minutes. I think you deserve   to know that this will be a finite experience” (

a speech. He was speaking at a graduation ceremony of the class of 2008. He

letter, a correspondence. He was in jail at the time so he had a little extra time o   his hands to just sit down and write his thoughts. King states “ Never have I   written a letter this long, or should I say a book?”

but something so simple made countless people see the   reality.

Cited Works   Anzaldua Gloria, How to Tame a Wild Tongue, “Borderlands/La Frontera”, https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf   Collins, Billy, Commencement Address Colorado College 2008 https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm     King Jr. Martin Luther, Letter from Birmingham Jail 1963 https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf    

n writing, there are a few aspects which makes a piece of work great.   There are three major terms are genre, audience and purpose. There are many

The speech’s purpose is to not think about tomorrow, but to think about toda

Lastly Collins speech’s purpose

writings purpose.

“Hwnildes yet proud

It’s perfect because graduates are known for constantly thinking about the future and what’s next for them instead of just thinking about where they’re at now.

didn’t want people to already understand him.

This shows she wanted people who understood her to read her work

in spanish

Specifically ones who understand her personally.

“Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine when a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.” This shows that the only ones who even know the law of God

With King’s writing being a letter, it was targeted for a certain audience.

Now with the information given above and with these three pieces having different genres. They bring in different audiences, who the pieces are written for. 

s a speech.

This quote shows a personal experience Anzaldua has been through showing the narrative part of her piece.

an essay

This type of genre collects and synthesizes information while telling a story of personal events.

In 1987, Gloria Anzaldua published a book named Borderlands/La Frontera

King chose the letter genre which he did for multiple reasons.

helps you

n sources such as “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr., “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua and Billy Collins Commencement Address, they all show

The purpose of the writing which is the reason for the composition, or the audience; who the writer writes for

In any form of writing, they all share similarities or differences.

Whether it’s in genre which is a category the composition is in

SOURCES

Anzaldua Gloria. “How to Take a Wild Tongue” 1987. https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf 27 September 2019   Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter From Birmingham Jail” 1963. https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf 27 September 2019   Billy Collins Commencement Address Colorado College 2008. https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm 27 September 2029

how they are used.

the eight members of Clergy.

The crowd was there to participate in this important rite of passage and they left that day forever different after hearing it

his writing could not be contained to only these men.

When first coming across King Jr., Martin Luther, Letter from Birmingham City Jail, April 1963 it alone stood as a documented piece of American History. After printing Livingston’s speech in 2016 and listening to it, Dr. King has his correspondence recorded in his own voice as well and the genre of internet media is now considered.

This is a perfect example of that sub-genre

It was delivered in a video format online

genre of Livingston, Donovan, Spoken Word Commencement Speech,

www.insider.com/harvard-grads-spoken-word-commencement-speech-is-amazing-2016-the subject matter

The audience, in these three particular bodies of work, is also completely diverse “target” markets and each author had a different result after delivering these three incredible pieces of writing which will be proven in this assignment.

where you

Cited Works Page Major Assignment #1 Anzaldua, Gloria, How to, Tame a Wild Tongue, “Borderlands: La Frontera”, Aunt Lute books, pp. 75-86, 2006, Sept 25, 2019 King Jr., Martin Luther, Letter from a Birmingham City Jail, “Why Can’t We Wait”, Penguin Random House, 1963

HISTORICAL ICING.

These last few weeks I have learned that audience, genre and purpose are not just terms I’ve learned in class, but rather crucial components in any successful piece of writing.

By Livingston stating,“As educators, rather than raising your voices / Over the rustling of our chains, / Take them off. Un-cuff us.”, he is acknowledging that he is speaking with fellow educator

powerful speech

commencement speech, however like Collins’

King is arguing that the Church should be standing alongside him, a

Throughout the letter King makes many religious references, not only because he, himself is religious, but because he knew that in order to really get the leaders to understand what he was trying to say, he had to. On the fourth page of  King’s six page letter, he states “I gradually gained a bit of satisfaction from being considered an extremist. Was not Jesus an extremist in love? — ‘Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.’ “

Martin Luther King Jr.’s piece was addressed to the eight religious white leaders of the sout

While reading Billy Collins’ Commencement Address, I found myself relating to a lot of what he said, and even re-thinking past ideas that I thought I already had figured out, such as Collins’ concept of Time and the Future.

The purpose of this piece was to motivate and inspire

t was clear to me that his audience was those graduating that evening from Colorado College in 2008.

After analyzing the reading material that has been provided throughout these last few weeks, I understand the importance of audience, genre and purpose of a piece. I would define these terms by stating that, the audience is the target reader that the author is trying to engage. The genre is the categorization of the work itself, what separates it from the rest? What makes it similar to others? The purpose of a piece is simply what the writing is intended to do to the reader. This could mean that it makes the reader reflect on their previous way of thinking, or it could even be a piece that is intended to make the reader laugh. Using my three sources, Billy Collins’ Commencement Address, Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, and Donovan Livingston’s Spoken Word Commencement Address, I am going to explain the importance of each, audience, genre and purpose, and how all three of these are crucial to any piece of writing.

Work Cited:

I completely revised my conclusion. I felt it was redundant before instead of wrapping up my main ideas in an informative way.

I chose to take out a few quotes, change others and paraphrase where I felt it was needed instead of using quotes.

t were similar in style to this one

more Precise

Kings readers

Dr. King was writing a letter to eight white clergymen in his Birmingham Jail letter. H

He’s addressing the future generations of teachers and educators. He calls them out directly in his speech “As educators, rather than raising your voices, over the rustling of our chains, take them off. Un-cuff us.” (

Collin’s commencement address he

There are some genre similarities in a few of these sources, like Billy Collins and Donovan Livingston both have Commencement speeches but don’t have the same purpose.

“Within the confines of any genre is room to experiments to take some risks, to surprise and even to delight your reader”

Purposes what I believe to be the most important aspect of any kind of writing

Purpose, genre, and audience, three of the main things you need to know when writing anything.

you need

Knowing how to use genre, audience and purpose can make your writing better and more understandable.  

Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is on open letter

Gloria Anzaldua thinks it is important that her readers feel a part of her intended audience

The purpose of this valvetrain is to get the young crowd to understand what he is trying to say to them. After high school there gets harder. He is telling us to seize our days. In Billy speech the genre he was a poetry. He wrote over 20,000 books.

In Collins audience is a group of young strangers that are graduating.

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it just makes good sense to know who you are directing their work.

Gloria, Martin and Billy

ach other

n Gloria Anzaldua’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” Martin Luther King Jr “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” and Billy Collins “Commencement Address at

Source: Anzaldua Gloria, How to Tame a Wild Tongue, “Borderlands/La Frontera”, https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain /965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf Collins, Billy, Commencement Address Colorado College 2008 https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College 2008.htm King Jr. Martin Luther, Letter from Birmingham Jail 1963 https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf

But Collins’s purpose is to teach, to inform, to encourage and to guide g

Anzaldua audience

Otherwise

where

Dr King, Collins and Anzaldua have a good understanding of the audience.

Whereas Billy Collins, his genre is a “Commencement address.”

She wants readers who grew up to the border with Mexico to feel themselves comfortable while reading her memoir because with them, she can speak “a secret language.”

On the other side, Anzaldua’s genre is a memoir. What is a memoir?

Because he had to explain the reason why he was in jail. He was considered as “Jesus”. He travelled with many other people from town to town to denounce segregation and humiliation that black people received everyday. The home town was close to the colored children. And you could read the sign “white and colored”everywhere. Also, he said he is to the Birmingham because of injustice. In the same letter, he said he was arrested that Friday because he was parading without permit. If he needed a permit to parade, in other words if the Birmingham’s law required to have a permit before making a parade, why didn’t he take his permit to parade? Every country and city has his rules and i hear sometime that none is on the top of the law. He should wait to have his permit to parade or think of another way to talk to his “people.”

his letter

why you

While the audience can be defined as a specific people to whom somebody writes

doesn’t has

Have you

That is why authors always use these three key terms to make people understand them.

Anzaldua, Gloria “How To Tame a Wild Tongue” publish in 1987 . https://w w w. oogle.com Collins, Billy “commencement speech” to graduated students of Colorado College in May 19, 2008. https:// w w w. Google .com King Luther Martin “Letter From Birmingham Jail” wrote on August 1963 and publish in June 12, 1963. https:// w w w.Google.com

The audience of the speech is the students from the 2016 graduating class of the Harvard School of Education.

His speech

A letter that was a response to a word of caution issued by eight white religious leaders of the South

As the name suggest,

to motivate them for the future

Billy Collins delivers a fantastic speech at the Colorado College

Three pieces of writing and speech that I have chosen represent a variety of different genres, audiences and purposes.

compositions genre, audience and there overall purpose

n conclusion, what I believe makes a successful writing from what I learned from these sources is a few things. One thing I can concur with from all of the sources is that a successful piece of writing should be moving or motivation. If you want a piece of writing to resonate with someone, it’s message or purpose should be powerful enough to create ideas and inspire people.

In the Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Billy Collins, Commencement Address at Colorado College and “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua, they

“I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say “wait.” But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, brutalize, and even kill your black brothers and sisters with impunity; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she cannot go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, 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?” 

purpose is to justify

that is the Chicanos, Spainish or Mexican people which shows us that she is speaking to them through this essay.

states “I came to Birmingham with the hope that the white religious leadership would see the justice of our cause…”  A

Lastly in “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua is a personal narrative essay. This is shown because she is writing from an experience she has encountered, Anzaldua states “I remember being caught speaking Spanish at recess – that was good for three licks on the knuckles with a sharp rule”.

The first part of a rhetorical situation is genre.

also the quality of the writing.

purpose is the messag

Genre refers to the category of a composition

tion is the first source “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. which is about King answering back to the eight clergymen that he isn’t going to stop the nonviolent riot because his people can’t wait anymore. The second source is “Commencement Address” by Billy Collins at Colorado College where he  talks about how you need to focus on now and not the future. Lastly the third source is “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua, a chapter out of her book “Borderlands/La Frontera”, it’s about how hard it is to survive in a world where you aren’t able to be yourself. 

rhetorical situation contains three parts, genre, audience and purpose

Works Cited Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” 1987. https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf. 22 September 2019. Collins, Billy. “Commencement Address.” 2008. https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm. 22 September 2019. Jr. King Luther, Martin. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. 1963. https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf. 22 September 2019.

i read the odyssey

he is inspiring

Gloria

I am going to be talking about, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”by Gloria Anzaldua, the genre of this passage is a lecture.

eservoir of errors and miscalculations that we can learn from and apply to the Future. For the Poetic, the past is simply a source of nostalgia and regret. Susan Sontag, a confirmed subscriber to the Poetic view, once wrote: “Just wait until now becomes then and you will see how happy we were.” Collins is saying that we can learn from our past and we can change our ways to prepare ourselves for the future.  The past is a time where we can’t change any of our actions and to just move forward to bigger and better things. 

Billy Collins is trying to explain priorities

Next, I am going to be talking about the Commencement Address by Billy Collins the genre of this piece of writing would be poetry and this is also a speech that he read at Colorado College

involves poetry.

As educators, rather than raising your voices over the rustling of our chains, take them off, uncuff us unencumbered by the lumbering weight of poverty and privilege policy and ignorance” He

trying to write for would be upcoming/ future students, adults and educators

Donovan Livingston, the second one is a Commencement Address at Colorado College by Billy Collins and last would be ‘How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua.

Commencement, Address

you read

the future. 

Used my experiences in my public speaking class to understand how the audience would feel and respond to the speeches by Livingston and Collins.

is Harvard class of 2016

Donovan Livingston’s 2016 Harvard speech falls under the genre of commencement speeches

e wrote to was eight clergymen

as a letter since he wrote it as a response to some negative connotations about the Civil Rights Movement

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” is another writing success written by Martin Luther King Jr

out towards people who understand the struggle of having an oppressed native language and the oppressors themselves

personal essay

Anzaldúa’s personal life and views are discussed

In “Borderlands/La Frontera”, written by Gloria Anzaldúa, there is a chapter titled “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”.

A sample of their writing will be analyzed and identified in the following paragraphs based off these criteria to exemplify that all memorable writing is centered around these three points.

for the writer to determine the purpose of their piece they

When an author begins

Citations: Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, pp. 33–45. King Jr., Martin Luther. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

I chose to not explain what each piece was about at the beginning of each paragraph and instead only put in information that was needed.

argets white racists in Texas

Livingston’s approach to connect with them is very different from collins’. Instead of using humor to keep the audience interested, Livingston invites them to participate in his presentation as he says “Spoken word poetry, it insists on participation, so if you feel so compelled snap, clap, throw up your hands, celebrate.” The speech is used to both give advice to the class, and uplift the group through the speech’s enthusiastic nature.

Donovan Livingston’s spoken word commencement address is also classified under the genre of a speech, but is very different from Collins’ piece

He also attempts to connect with his audience when he refers to the bible, a very important piece in the clergymen’s lives, in “Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ?” T

Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is a respectful yet powerful letter, w

Billy Collins’ Commencement Address, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Donnovan Livingston’s Spoken Word Commencement Address, and Gloria Anzaldua’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” are all very powerful works that have their own genre, audience and purpose. 

successful composition.

Her a persons language

nonfiction

her purpose is a story with a few incidents

Collins believes that people spend far too much time thinking about the past and the future but don’t spend enough time living in the present, “So much attention to time, very odd, especially for people freshly graduated from college”. “Sometimes we need an event to shock us into the present”, he says, “An event so disruptive that it does not allow us to continue wallowing in the past or putting off things until an indefinite manana. Manana by the way does not mean tomorrow, it means not today”. C

Billy Collins had a different approach when it came to grabbing the attention of his audience.

“Our stories are the ladders that make it easier for us to climb up and touch the stars, so climb up and grab them”, he says, “Light up the world with your luminous allure”, and finally, “None of us were meant to be common we were born to be comets, darting across space and time, leaving our mark as we crash into everything”.

written down but performed through means of rhythm, improvisation, rhyme, and word play

audience

Donovan Livingston’s Harvard Graduate School of Education Student Speech. YouTube, YouTube, 25 May 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XGUpKITeJM

The Rhetorical Situation.” Writing in the Works, 4th ed., Cenegage Learning, 2015

our point

audience.

like to be on the outside as she had been for so long. 

Gloria Anzaldua’s powerful memoir How to Tame a Wild Tongue was conveyed towards her fellow Chicanos.

King specifically referenced well known figures from the Bible to appeal to the clergymen and allow them to understand his main point of writing the speech.

King’s letter was specifically written to the eight white clergy in the South

, but also to inspire them

Billy Collins’ commencement address is unlike other pieces of writing I have analyzed before

To make a piece of writing meaningful, an author must decide upon three important ideas: the genre they will be writing in, the audience they want to appeal to, as well as other rhetorical components. The three works I will be analyzing are Billy Collins’ commencement speech, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, as well as Gloria Anzaldua’s How to Tame a Wild Tongue.

as well as other rhetorical components

Anzaldua, Gloria. How to Tame a Wild Tongue. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books, 1987. Blau, Susan, and Burak, Kathryn. Writing in the Works. Cengage Learning, 2017. Print. King, Martin Luther, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” 16, Apr. 1963. Web. 21. Sept. 2019. Collins, B. (2008). Billy Collins’ Commencement Address [Transcript]. Retrieved from https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm

Together, we can inspire galaxies of greatness For generations to come. No, sky is not the limit. It is only the beginning. Lift

audience, fellow educators

His audience was the students, teachers, and everyone

His audience is directed to people of all color,

Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr, was written by a black male pastor and his fight for equal rights…

n Billy Collins Commencement Address at Colorado College, his audience are graduating college students.

The definition of genre is, genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or even (as in the case of fiction) length. The distinctions between genre and categories are flexible and loosely defined, often with subgroups. The definition of a “theory” is a system of explanation,a particular way of thinking that helps to explain phenomena in the world. 

need to pay attention to their students and to be better educators for their student

Work Cited Collins, Billy. “Graduation Wisdom.” Poet Laureate Billy Collins Gives brilliant and Witty Commencement Address at Colorado College, 2008, 2 Oct. 2013, www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm. King Jr., Martin Luther. “Letter From Birmingham Jail.”  www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm. Livingston, Donovan, director. Donovan Livingston’s Harvard Graduate School of Education StudentSpeech. YouTube, YouTube, 25 May 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XGUpKITeJM.  

At the core, none of us were meant to be common. We were born to be comets, darting across space and time, leaving our mark as we crash into everything.”

students are the main focus of his audience.

Donovan Livingston’s Spoken Word Commencement was by far my favorite of these three sources.

This quote makes it clear that she is reaching out to her fellow Chicanos.

Gloria Anzaldua wrote How to Tame a Wild Tongue in the form of an autobiography. Sh