He talks mostly about time and how rare yet valuable it is. 

In Collins’ Commencement Address, the genre is a graduation speech.

There are three sources that I’ve read that stand out when it comes to genre, audience, and purpose. They are the Commencement Address by Billy Collins, How to Tame a Wild Tongue by Gloria Anzaldua, and Spoken Word Commencement spoken by Donovan Livingston.

in which you’re writing in

These terms are all rhetorical situations.

we don’t

you have

Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” Everettsd, www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf.    Collins, Billy. “Commencement Address.” Poet Laureate Billy Collins Gives Brilliand and Witty Commencement Address at Colorado College, 2008, http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm.   Livingston, Donovan “Donovan Livingston’s Harvard Graduate School of Education Student Speech.” Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XGUpKITeJM&t=268s 

(I.E people who have felt the same kind of discrimination)

In Donovan Livingston’s commencement address at Harvard,

reach everyone with their remarks

by Susan Blau and Kathryn Burak, It explains

That leaves us with the present, the elusive moment where everything takes place but is moving to fast to comprehend”(Bil

work of writing.

I believe that part of her purpose in this piece was to inform the Americans

, her audience is her fellow Chicanos.

I would classify this work as a memoir,

How to Tame a Wild Tongue

Another piece of writing that may be less known

To a reader today, this may seem confusing, however, we must take into consideration that King was writing to clergymen, who knew exactly who Jesus, Amos, and Paul were, and would be able to understand the analogy of considering them extremists.

We can determine that this is a letter because King is specifically writing a response to the eight clergymen and not to the population as a whole.

you are

Writing In the Works, genre is defined as “a type of writing – from informative report to a blog posting – and each type of writing requires particular rhetorical moves.”

The first, and most popular piece, is “The Letter from Birmingham Jail,” written by Martin Luther King Jr. The second is called, How to Tame a Wild Tongue,written by Gloria Anzaldua. Finally, I will be discussing the commencement address given by Billy Collins at Colorado College in 2008. Each of these works brings forth a different genre, and purpose, and was written for a different audience. Let’s dive deeper and discover how these elements affect a piece of writing.

are so important, however, having

nzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera. 1987. 33-44. Collins, Billy. n.d.   —. Billy Collins. 28 May 2008. 22 September 2019.   Jr., Martin Luther King. Letter From Birmingham Jail. August 1963. 22 September 2019.   Susan Blau, Kathryn Burak. “Writing in the Works.” Susan Blau, Kathryn Burak. Boston : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2015. 2-44.

for Anzaldua to tell the audience about past experiences in her life

Spanish speaking individuals

genre presented is a memoir

Collins speech as listed in its title, is the genre

Some example of how blacks were treated differently include not being able to sleep in a hotel, signs above certain objects saying white and black, being called “nigger”, and daily never know what will happen next/what to expect. “When you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you.” “When you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading “white” and “colored”. “When your first name becomes “nigger”. ” Living constantly at tiptoe stance, never knowing what to expect next.”

was to express that he wante

King wrote this letter to Birmingham with a purpose.

King’s letter to Birmingham has the genre of a letter, formal

ting to is the eight white religious leaders of the south. Those eight religious people are the eight Clergy

to whom King

then stories

a letter, formal

Composition is what tells a story

Citations-

Collins is seeking to inspire and to challenge.

Moving on to a piece fairly different than King’s

His purpose was to justify his actions

King makes several references to the Bible; using what his audience understands. For example, this quote: “…and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Greco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.” (King).

Men well-versed in the Holy Scriptures. 

Perhaps more of a professional letter, but a letter, nonetheless

Firstly, is Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.

They are the most basic components of a work. This essay will explain these three components through the writings of Martin Luther King Jr., poet Billy Collins, and writer Gloria Anzaldua

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example of Anzalduas purpose and audience is paragraph

“i remember being caught speaking spanish

threw out

Throughout this letter King manages to hit all of the key elements of making a successful work of writing, giving his audience a straightforward understanding of his purpose.

The next piece of discussion was, “Letter from Birmingham Jail” written by Martin Luther King Jr. I

n this short quote Collins hits each key element, showing us he understands that the audience is a “group of young strangers”. The purpose of this speech is also told in this quote, “dispensing advice”(Collins1)

Mr. Collins understands his audience and purpose.

This is important when meeting the appeal of your audience, allowing the reader a smooth experience when grasping your main idea.

Let’s break down each key term that we discussed in the first paragraph that makes a successful composition

help you

is a hard task to do in writing, we

how to compose my own piece of successful writing!

“Commencement Speech Transcript” (may 19 2008) Billy Collins  “How Tame a Wild Tongue” (1987) Gloria Anzaldua “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (august 1963)  Martin Luther King Jr.

the audiences attention

Collins’ purpose of this was to bring his contemporary poetry into the world so more people could use it during rough times.

Billy Collins Commencement Address was about a depressing topic: death

“when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people;” (King 12)

Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was a letter that responded to a letter in the newspaper

audience is anyone who has experienced alienation due to the language they speak

Those three components will be examined with Gloria Anzaldua’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and Billy Collins Commencement Address at Colorado College.

as a whole

Collin’s Audience are younger students

Billy Collin  “poet laureate” demonstrating illustration to be profoundly understanding through a clearer observation

Anzaldua’s Genre is based on racism

Anzaldúa engages the Audience in “How To Tame a Wild Tongue.” by providing and displaying different scenarios from her point of view showing her audience what it feels like to live through situations as a Chinaco

Martin Luther King “ Letters From Birmingham Jail” the audience is the eight Clergymen we become aware of all the hardships Martin Luther King and everyone in Birmingham encounters which includes racism and slavery. 

The ability to learn from challenges you’ve experienced and motivate others, giving them a hope that there’s a better destiny even if that means facing resentment

The authors focus on the main three key terms Genre,  Audience and Purpose will be defined throughout the articles including the main idea of what makes these authors successful writers

facing resentment. 

King, Martin Luther, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” 16 Apr, 1963.               Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books, 2012.         Blau, Susan, and Kathryn Burak. Writing in the Works. Boston, Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2017         Collins, William James “Poet laureate”.  The New York Public Library (1992) 

In conclusion, a thorough work of writing, always factors in the three key terms. The artistic composition characterized by a specific form, content and style. The person to whom the writer is writing and the purpose it is serving. 

When speaking he wanted every graduate to hear his message and take it in a way that would change the way they saw the world. He was asking them to see in light, the things that had been hidden from existence for so long.

is pushing his audience to question

Livingston opened his speech with a powerful verse, “At the time of his remarks I couldn’t read- couldn’t write. Any attempt to do so, punishable by death… we have known of knowledge’s infinite power. Yet somehow, we’ve never questioned the keeper of the keys- The guardians of information.”

In Donovan Livingston’s speech,

By explaining that this is something unusual for him to do it opens the door to say things that are typically left unsaid. When writing this MLK Jr. wanted to directly address the religious leaders involved in degrading him and his movement.

n the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by MLK Jr., his purpose

In Billy Collins commencement address his audience is clear.

The piece is written with the purpose of entertaining and informing

choose from, in our situation today

you focus

Livingston, Donovan. “Donovan Livingston’s Student Speech.” Facebook Watch, https://www.facebook.com/HarvardEducation/videos/10153893399331387. King, Martin Luther, and Jr. “Letter From Birmingham City Jail.” CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE in Focus, https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf. Collins, Billy. “Commencement Address .” 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.

The person to whom the writer is writing and the purpose it is serving. 

When you

persuade children and even adults to embrace their culture instead of hiding form it

Purpose.

In my personal opinion audience is a very significant term.

please an audience for example, Collins Commencement speech.

who you

when writing

connected, they all

compliment e

Genre, defined as the type of piece being written based off of style and tone.

Genre, Audience, and purpose. Three simple words, with a much more complex meaning than the average would define.

*revising conclusion*

Billy Collins presented a commencement speech in 2008 for the graduating class of Colorado Colleg

ell it was for them directly. He wanted to make his speech mean something and to be memorable to his audience

During Donovan Livingston’s spoken word commencement address, his audience was Harvard’s graduating class of 2016

Martin Luther King Junior is seen as an activist but he can also be seen as a writer.

When he wrote he referred to religion by using comparisons between religion and law, the religious leaders

Letters are a form of writing that is more direct to one person or group of people. King wrote this in the form of a letter so it would be directed towards the eight white religious leaders. H

For example, the letter from Birmingham jail when he was sentenced for participating in a non-violent protest against segregation.

letter from Birmingham jail

What is the purpose of authors choosing the genre, purpose, and audience of their writing? What are they in the first place?

you can

works

you’re

American’s

that every day their world changes and having a diploma or education doesn’t secure you anything. They must learn how to use their knowledge to meet the needs of society because just having an education doesn’t solidify anything.  

his graduation class,

His genre is a commencement speech

King, 2019

Disturbed

King wanted to justify that his nonviolent campaign

ntended for his audience to be the eight white clergymen,

King’s genre was a freedom letter.

The first piece of literature I will asses is Martin Luther King’s Letter to Birmingham.  K

Letter to Birmingham

asses

determine their purposes for writing

A more than exceptional piece of literature,

King, Martin Luther, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” 16 Apr. 1963. Web. 22 Sept. 2019. Education, Harvard Graduate School. “Donovan Livingston’s Harvard Graduate School of Education Student Speech.” YouTube, YouTube, 25 May 2016, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XGUpKITeJM. Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books, 2012. Print. Blau, Susan, and Kathryn Burak. Writing in the Works. Boston, Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2017.

he Future off the metaphorical table, Collins presents the idea of appreciating the present above stressing what will never arrive. That this is a time of growth and change, where once outside the regimented school courses and independent, that these students will better themselves. 

manner of doing so coming from how he’s chosen to make his address.

A commencement address is a tradition going back many years and as such has a formula for those being paid to go on stage an

With the sense of being apart of a group, the strength and reassurance that there are other than understand and are like you, uncertainties and isolation will begin to occur. Spanish is a highly regulated language with a book treated as sacred among purists. If a person’s dialect is not there,

The Spanish language has been a prominent language for cultures all over the world,

There was a complacency present in the South when it came to the matter of rights for the African Americans who were free yet bore social chains as degrading as their ancestors. Leaders of communities as the eight who wrote MLK Jr. were not acquainted with how their advice was just one contribution to the problem

himself to Paul, “I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid. .

hat there are just and unjust laws, the latter of which is not truly one at all (MLK Jr. , Page 3). This reference to St. Augustine shows King’s inherit grasp of how the religious leaders would know this figure and the significance of his insight. Drawing from the writings of an  unchallengeable author to align with King’s explained motives makes counter argument almost impossible as well as adding credibility to the protests. King’s choice to write a letter while in jail e

At the  time of 1968, the United States was a nation divided by prejudice which was at the beginning of a movement that would bring the issue into the forefront for all to face. The infancy of the Civil Rights Movement was guided most famously by the well-spoken Martin Luther King Jr., a well educated man with a background in religion. As he was in the town of Birmingham for a peaceful protest, police confronted the group, leading to MLK Jr. going to jail willingly for his part in the demonstration.

purpose of a piece is what the writer is intending to get across,

is who

To show how each source of writing utilizes the three concepts, definitions are in order.

Collins, Billy. “Commencement Speech.” 19 May 2008, Colorado Springs, Colorado College. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” Borderlands/La Frontera, by Gloria Anzaldua, Aunt Lute Books, 1987, pp. 33–45. King Jr., Martin Luther. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Received by Eight white religious leaders of the South, Birmingham Jail, Aug. 1963, Birmingham, Alabama.

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How was the Intro and Conclusion? Did the transitions work or were they too vague? Is this a mess? Was there sufficient analysis or too much summarizing?

if you

was telling the graduates to live in the present and compose your life of moments

xpressed the fact that Jesus was an extremist of love and Amos an extremist of justice

speaks to her natives

It was his response to a public statement of concern and caution issued by eight white religious leaders of the South”

intended audience were the eight-white religious’ leaders of the South.

is intended for.

audience is for whom

could be seen as many genres due to the fact that she starts the writing with a story, then continues talking about her life, and writes in an essay format.

because it could be seen as a memoir, a personal narrative, and an essay

Martin Luther King Jr.’s piece, his writing

a speech

First, the genre is the category of a composition.

The three key points that will be discussed for each writing will be genre, audience, and purpose. These terms will be defined within each writing piece and how the pieces differ from each other, or how they may be similar.

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being a speech

Donovan Livingston’s’ commencement address “Lift Off”, is a speech that was given to graduates from Harvard’s Graduate school of Education. T

deliver his core message, which is to seize the day, to the students.

the Graduates

Billy Collins’ commencement address to Colorado college is effective in delivering a message to his audience.

The purpose of King’s letter was to convince the clergymen to stop waiting, to act now, and that peaceful protest is the best way to cause change.

As a result, King uses many religious references throughout his letter because he knows that a religious argument will work particularly well on the clergymen because of their knowledge of, and devotion to faith. For example, the clergymen said that peaceful protest will cause violence in response Martin Luther King states “Isn’t this like condemning Jesus because His unique God consciousness and never-ceasing devotion to His will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion?” (King pg. 3).

a specific audience that he’s writing too

ll three efficiently and effectively use genre to deliver a message to their audience and ultimately achieve their purpose.

purpose, the goal of the writing

too,

clear and their message is understood.

How does the audience pertain to the genre, of course if you don’t categorize literature, movies and entertainment you don’t know what to expect and then the ‘audience’ will not be drawn into the piece of writing.

I felt like the analogy was comparing the matter as to our lives and the particles as moments from your past, a

Collins  ‘purpose’ was  to encourage and motivate

Graduation speeches can be motivating and inspirational.

”Love your enemies, bless them that curse you pray for them that despitefully use you. Was not Paul an extremist for the gospel of Jesus Christ?” “Was not Martin Luther King an extremist?”(pg.4

he genre of this writing is a letter in response to the eight religious leaders that wrote to him firs

Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most influential people of the twentieth century, even though he was assassinated.

This sentence revealed the ‘purpose’ to me because it entailed nationality, racism and discrimination

The ‘audience’ that

this is a memoir/autobiography.

Gloria explains

Gloria Anzaldua’s “How To Tame A Wild Tongue” is a chapter in her book published in 1987 ‘Borderlands/la Frontera’.

The ‘purpose’ is what or who the author is  writing about.

clear, what you want

When a Writer sits down to write, they need to consider what they want to communicate and to whom. This falls under the rhetorical situation which includes choices about genre, purpose, and audience. I will be explaining the meaning and importance of these three important guidelines writers use. I will also analyze three authors and how they used these terms in their writing and show examples from their own words too. First author will be Gloria Anzaldua’s memoir, “How To Tame A Wild Tongue”. Second author will be Martin Luther King Jr.’s, letter from Birmingham Alabama Jail and, lastly Billy Collin’s commencement address.

there wouldn’t be a systematic flow of words to be understood.

Notes Gloria Anzaldua “How To Tame A Wild Tongue” 1987 published book ‘Borderlands/la Frontera Martin Luther King Jr ‘Birmingham Alabama Jail Letter’ written August 1963 Billy Collins Colorado State College commencement address May 19 2008

Of which, his commencement speech was not conventional.

Collins writing

Unlike both, King and Anzalduas having large obstacles in their path in regards of issues, such as inequality, Billy Collins did not have a writing similar to theirs.

What Anzalduas is doing is reinforcing the purpose to have people keep on using their native language.

That position would be for people who went through or are currently going through being forced

is because throughout the writing Anzaldua provides us first hand experiences to inform us, the reader, of what’s happening along the Mexican/Texan border

Just as King was able to get his message across about inequality and the injustice that was happening, Anzaldua also did a fantastic job of getting her message across in her book,

Even though King has done nothing but be a promoter of peace, he was compared to being an extremist. In response King states “Was not Jesus an extremist in love?”(4) He does a great job writing that because not only is Jesus a religious figure, he is also a figure of peace

wants to justify his approach

When it comes to Kings letter, his purpose