Not being able to be herself is the purpose she wrote this piece.

Like how in 1942, when she claims “I remember being caught for speaking Spanish at recess – that was good for three licks on the knuckles with a sharp ruler.”(Gloria)

On top of that, all the racist slurs and punishment she had faced growing up and encountering.

her story

weird stories

As for Gloria

To also be able to set big dreams and to achieve them.                                   

The audience he aimed towards we’re people that needed more inspiration and to endlessly keep pushing forward.

Which makes his genre motivational and poetry.

all the big words

Authors and writers share their story to give knowledge to people, but also to share their personal experiences. For each author or writer, they seek certain audiences in hopes to change or understand their view on certain topics. These topics could be as little as how to dye hair and other topics could be as big as a story on how it’s like to to lose both parents while you’re child.

you may justif

Major Assignment #1

Donavon Livingston’s Speech-https://www.facebook.com/HarvardEducation/videos/10153893399331387 Gloria’s “How to Tame a Tongue”-https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf Pecha Kucka Presentation “Every 60 Seconds in Africa”- https://www.pechakucha.org/presentations/every-60-seconds-in-africa-dot-dot-dot

t’s the main reason why writer’s do so, to share their story and to get a better understanding before judging a book by it’s cover.

to inform people

it kinda

Faten Aggad

genre is a pecha kucha which is for presentation of 20 slides and have 20 seconds of examination

The Pecha Kucha presentation “Every 60 seconds in Africa” was more complex than the others.

The audience will mostly be interested and engaged with her story

er message by first hand experience.

Gloria Anzaldua’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, she shows her audience

states his purpos

by touching on such an important topic such as slavery.

future students

message through poetry.

From there that can also help decide the audience, which the work is intended for. The audience is the decision factor for the piece of work to see if it is effective or not. Then comes the purpose and why the author decided to form this piece of work. The creator has to clearly express the message he/she is trying to get across.

There’s three key points that the author has to identify and execute.

Aggad, Faten “Every 60 Seconds in Africa” a pecha kucha presentation February 29, 2016 Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue?” Borderland/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Second Edition. San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1987. 217. Print. https://english1103fall.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/howtotameawildtongue-2-1101.pdf Livingston, Donavon Spoken word commencement address Harvard University 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XGUpKITeJM  

I felt like I was digging so much deeper and realizing that presentation has so much to do with your piece of work. I never realized how complex writing was until analyzing these pieces of work. It was very different to what I usually write. In order to understand what you’re writing yourself, you have to understand the process and that’s what I took out of this assignment. I learned that those three elements are your guidelines in creating a piece of work.

Billy Collins’ commencement address shares many similarities to Livingston’s piece in terms of genre and audience. Like Livingston’s commencement address, Collins’ is a speech, but contains a poem at the end, allowing the piece to be placed in either category. Also similarly to Livingston, Collins’ piece is geared more towards the younger generation, specifically college graduates who are about to enter the “real world” as some might put it. These people have such busy lives that they often don’t stop to live in the moment. Teaching them to stop every once in a while and focus more on the present is the main purpose of the speech.

specifically those who are going into the education field.

due to a poem written by Livingston taking up almost the entire speech

It’s easy to see why she chose this genre, because the photos are very effective in informing her audience. Aggad-Clerx had to think about people living in Western nations who believe these stereotypes while writing. She probably focused on the younger generation, as the younger someone is, the easier it is for their opinion to change.

Faten Aggad-Clerx’s PechaKucha “Every Sixty Seconds in Africa…” explores the stereotypes that some people in Western nations often have of Africa. Aggad-Clerx touches upon how many people view Africa as a country rather than a continent, and the stereotype that Africa has no urban development

In order to create a successful piece of writing, all writers must develop what is known as the rhetorical situation. The rhetorical situation focuses on three main aspects of writing. One of these aspects is genre, which refers to the format the writing is in. Is it a novel or essay? A poem or a song? A text or a tweet? When a writer chooses genre, they must carefully choose one that would best suit the other two elements of the rhetorical situation: the purpose and the audience. The purpose is the main idea of a piece. For example, if someone creates a blog post explaining what they did over the weekend, the purpose of the post is informing people about everything the writer did. The audience of a piece of writing is the group of people that the piece is intended for. It’s important to have a target audience when writing, because if there’s no specific audience in mind, the writing could seem confusing, some aspects of it may seem out of place, and the purpose may not be clear. A writer must choose their audience based on the purpose of their writing. The intended audience for an action film, for instance, would be very different from the intended audience for a nature documentary.

            Aggad-Clerx, Faten, ”Every Sixty Seconds in Africa,” PechaKucha, February 29, 2016. https://www.pechakucha.org/presentations/every-60-seconds-in-africa-dot-dot-dot Livingston, Donovan,”Lift Off,” May 25, 2016. https://www.facebook.com/HarvardEducation/videos/10153893399331387 Collins, Billy, “Commencement Speech Transcript,” May 19, 2008.  http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm  

At the end of writing the paper, I reread it several times to make sure all of the required elements had been included, and that no typos had been made.

analyzing other works of writing on a summary level, rather than something like the rhetorical situation.

who were most likely going to pursue their careers in the educational system

Which is a very powerful way to read a poem and is a great way to engage your audience.

Which was a technique that Donovan Livingston also used while giving his commencement address to the graduates of Harvard Education

Collins also went in a more informal, comedic path with his speech which also helped to keep his audience so engaged

He chose a different genre

Unlike Faten’s work, Billy Collins was directed towards a live audience.

It is infered that her audience consists of the younger generations because they are more open to change, and optimism and it is evident why she chose a Pecha Kucha as her outlet, as it is known that the younger generations are often on the internet and it is an easily accessible way to reach her purpose to her viewers.

s a power point presentation with 20 slides and for each slide the “author” has 20 seconds to get their point across based off

Diving deeper into “Every 60 seconds in Africa”: A Pecha Kucha Presentation made by Faten Aggard-Clerx

he use of connecting these is shown through the works of “Every 60 Seconds in Africa”: A Pecha Kucha Presentation, Billy Collins Commencement address at Colorado College, and Donovan Livingston’s “Spoken word” Commencement address.

you can imagin

they have to consider the fact that their audience consists of young children who will not understand an in-depth speech using medical term

These are key components of having a successful piece of writing

authors audience,

Aggad-Clerx, Faten. “Every 60 Seconds in Africa…” PechaKucha 20×20, 29 Feb. 2016, www.pechakucha.org/presentations/every-60-seconds-in-africa-dot-dot-dot. Collins, Billy. “Poet Laureate Billy Collins Gives Brilliand and Witty Commencement Address at Colorado College, 2008.” Six Rules of Success | Graduation Speech 2009 | Arnold Schwarzenegger, 19 May 2008, 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, www.gse.harvard.edu/news/16/05/lift.

POST WRITE: Revising this draft was a bit of a challenge for me because usually when I am writing everything will just flow and going back and making

I made them a lot stronger

For example, in my first draft the intro was a lot more wordy as well as some of the body paragraphs and that made the essay a lot more foggy and confusing, taking out some of those elements helped make my writing a lot more clear and understandable.

that our voices are something that should be heard and not brushed off.

her purpose was to spread the issue with the nation that there’s more than what you put into the society.

o inform the audience that we all have a bigger purpose then to not speak on whats on our minds

was to the people that obligated to not speak what’s on their minds and to the people that try to shut powerful minds up.

people that doubt themselves or to the people that doubt others in society or even on education.

what africa was

Donovan Livingston, Spoken

There’s primarily only one audience that the writer writes for but it’s how you interpret the writing piece as the audience

which is to be persuasive. She was explaining to speak about what’s on your mind.

“How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua genre is personal narrative

er genre is political journalism

writinging

There are unlimited amount of genres in the world that writers create.

When the audience actually understands the purpose of the writing the writer’s purpose is fulfilled.

Most writers write for their to see them learn

Post write I feel that in my first draft I didn’t explain what the genre exactly was and now I have stated and explain why the genre I have stated correlates with each writer. Also i feel i have written a paper with the same prompt before. Ive pulled the genre, audience and purpose out of a reading before and explained them.

Aggad, Faten “Every 60 Seconds in Africa” a pecha kucha presentation February 29, 2016 Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue?” Borderland/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Second Edition. San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1987. 217. Print. https://english1103fall.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/howtotameawildtongue-2-1101.pdf Livingston, Donavon Spoken word commencement address Harvard University 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XGUpKITeJM

to tell people t

My last story

feel like with that quote he is trying to say that if you mess with people of a different language you are messing with everyone of a different language and I feel like the purpose is to tell the government let us speak our language and not get hurt for it or prepare for a fight back.

Another story I thought was a good choice for my assignment is Gloria Anzaldua how to tame a wild tongue a

A thing that Donovan said is “Our stories are ladders to make it easier to touch the stars, so climb and grab them, keep climbing and grab them” he is basically telling people to reach for dreams and never give up on trying to reach them.

The story I’m writing about is Donovan Livingston’s commencement address which is in the poetry genre and the audience he is writing for is to a teacher and all the school districts,

For my assignment I have to analyze  three stories and the stories I chose are Donovan Livingston’s commencement address, Gloria Anzaldua how to tame a wild tongue, and Pech Kucha every 60 seconds in Africa I chose to analyze these stories because I thought that the stories would have a lot of meaning in them.

Gloria Anzaldua how to tame a wild tongue, and Pech Kucha every 60 seconds in Africa I chose to analyze these stories because I thought that the stories would have a lot of meaning in them.

The purpose is just to inform people on whats happening and that they should help because we all need the same things

In this paragraph he uses the words “when” and “wait” over again to make the audience understand his point.

King knew his audience very well and was very relatable and personal in a direct way

“Brimington City Jail Letter”

She makes an effort to make her audience think differently and challenges them to look at their own flaws because not everybody’s perfect.

The genre that she chose can show the audience that you can explain your message without using just words. She is most likely writing to a younger audience because they aren’t so firm on their beliefs yet.

what we see on the headlines, it’s like every other place- poverty, greed, power hungry.

Her message is to spread awareness

Collins’ message compared to the message of Aggad-Clerx “Every 60 Seconds in Africa… A Minute Passes” is different

He understands his audience

genre of writing is a graduation speech for the graduating class of Colorado College 2008

Collins’ purpose is to motivate, prepare, and tell the audience about the future and how time is very limited in life

In Billy Collins Commencement Speech, his

the readers expectations.

Writing in the Works,

What is the genre of the writing? What is the message of the writing? What is the purpose and who are you writing for? What kind of voice or sound are you trying to portray?

To help to develop your own rhetorical situation you must know which questions you should be answering such as,

Writing can be a way of communicating, but it also can be a way to explain your ideas to make sense to the reader.

you must understand

Are the transitions between the paragraphs okay?

increase your

Her purpose was to not only raise awareness but to also make us take a peek at ourselves in the mirror to realize we are the same.

was aimed towards both people of color as well as white people.

“Every 60 seconds in Africa”, a 20 slide presentation, give us the same writing experience.

also referred to teachers as “stars” (2:13) where they shine knowledge across the sky.

want to get out as soon as possible.

same techniques

he was trying to tell minorities around the world that she is unique

Her audience was focused around minorities

a long a boring speech, she wanted to

Her genre was a short story

A purpose isn’t necessarily the message they are trying to send out but rather the reason why they want to send it out.

“Who am I trying to reach?” or “Why am I doing this?”

Each element go

about the meanings genre, audience and purpose and why their important

you’re taught

Knowing the Background Knowledge

Post Write

These elements are just a few of the many pieces of writing we should concentrate on not only for presentation wise but for ourselves as well.

She sought to kick

o inspire educators t

This brings me to my next question-

or King, his genre was a non-fiction informational letter. Livingston’s spoken word address, as well as Aggad-Clerx’s Pecha Kucha are non-fiction as well, though the genre changes slightly. Livingston is in the form of a spoken word poem, delivered as a speech. Every 60 Seconds in Africa could be seen as a speech as well, though it was intended to be an informational 20 slide presentation. Livingston’s intended genre for Lift Off  seems to just be just another commencement address, but it was also meant to spark inspiration in his audience.

at comes with a set of readers’ expectations.

She uses not only pathos, but logos to get to her audience. The pecha kucha is fact based, informing the readers or listeners, but many of the slides are backed with pictures and anecdotes that evoke emotion.

teaching experiences to humanize the subject of his work and connect to the reader’s on a personal level

In Donovan Livingston’s spoken word commencement address, he too has the upper hand in knowing his audience, future teachers.

. King knows his audience and knows how to word his message to speak to them specifically

Knowing your

Post Write

Works Cited

He was very aware of who his audience was, he was a religious leader himself.

for multiple audiences

In How to Tame a Wild Tongue by Gloria Anzaldua, the message is in a completely different approach,

to genre i

has their own set

that requires particular rhetorical moves(3).

Writing in the Works

Audience is a select crowd or group of people that are listening, spectating and even reading. Purpose is the author’s reason for writing, every author out there has a purpose when it comes to their work. Genre is the kind of writing it is, there are various amounts of genres that can be put into writing.

Every writer has a purpose in their writing, it can be a message to a certain audience, they can be giving good advice or even giving you information you didn’t even know about, etc.

if you did

Blau, Susan, and Kathryn Burak. Writing in the Works. Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Print. -Anzaldúa, Gloria. How to Tame a Wild Tongue. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books, 2012. Print. -King, Martin Luther, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail. 16 Apr. 1963. Web.

Your ethnic identity

Hwnildes yet proud, quielos yet wild, noso- lros losmexicanos-Chicmws will walk by the crumbling ashes as we go about our business. Stubborn, persevering, impenetrable as stone, yet possessing a malleability that renders us unbreak- able, we, the meslizas and mestizos,will remain.

“There is the quiet of the Indian about us. ”

Anzaldua’s audience for this chapter in a book is everyone that feels like they are being discriminated against because of who they are.

s fiction

When Gloria Anzaldua wrote “How To Tame A Wild Tongue,”she wanted to recall and explain her experiences as a young chicano girl

purpose is

wants these men

King’s target audience for this letter is the white clergymen who haven’t experienced anything like King has

“Never before have I written a letter this long — or should I say a book? I’m afraid that it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else is there to do when you are alone for days in the dull monotony of a narrow jail cell other than write long letters, think strange thoughts, and pray long prayers?”

very formal letter

Martin Luther King Jr’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” shows the immense passion by Dr. King towards racism and even though he is in jail, his courage and persistence. T

In the end his whole purpose from this was to inspire the graduates and tell them not to squander their time and live life to the fullest while they can.

the speakers goal

The goal for these speeches are to inspire the graduates and give them a charge

Throughout his speech he Billy Collins uses analogies and many other literary devices to convey his audience

is a speech

by Billy Collins

s by Billy Collins, this is his Commencement Address at Colorado College in which he gave to the graduates of that year.

This first piece writing

The way that each and every writer chooses the audience they want to intrigue, what genre they will write in, and what purpose they will write with is what makes each and every work by a writer special in its own way. Audience is defined as who the work is intended for. A audience can be people ranging from very young to old, and it can be for any type of person. Genre can be defined as the type of writing that a author uses to make it different from other works. Purpose is defined as the authors reason and intent for writing.

Works Cited Anzaldua. Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” PDF   “Poet Laureate Billy Collins Gives Brilliand and Witty Commencement Address at Colorado College, 2008.” Six Rules of Success | Graduation Speech 2009 | Arnold Schwarzenegger, www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm.   Luther King Jr. Martin. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” PDF

all had their own purposes for writing what they did and why they did it.

has been discriminated against along with those who discriminate to help them see the opposite side from where those who are being discriminated against as stated in the text 

tell teachers to instead of looking at students as just another piece of the puzzle to look at each and everyone of them as a Separate intellectuals who all have potential to blossom and become something great.

inst people like her

h is a poetic speech as

“Letter From Birmingham Jail” as

letter from Birmingham jail” the genre is best portrayed as a nonfictional letter based on the actions occurring in Birmingham as stated by Martin Luther kings

The dictionary defines Genre as “a category of artistic composition as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form ,style or subject matter.”

portray best what the true meaning of genre ,audience and purpose are.  

*After thoroughly reading through all five pieces of literature I’ve decided that

uring the years I’ve been alive for. Throughout my years I’ve began to grow fond of the idea that we are all brought up and bred differently from each other just imagine a world where we all speak the same and none of our differences were to define us.

Throughout the 18 years of my life growing up I’ve never really thought about how who you are and what defines you would create as big of an issue as it has

of creating good writing and also becoming a good writer.

piece, the audience may be people who were in the same boat as her, discriminated against.

Moreover, he even addressed it to Rabbi’s and Pastors directly, he knew exactly who he was writing to and for.

“I came across your recent statement calling our present activities “unwise and untimely.”

I hear the anger rising in his voice. My tongue keeps pushing out the wads of cotton, pushing back the drills, the long thin needles.”

autobiographical and narrative genre

etters are much different than other types of genre of writing, they can be personal,

Starting and ending with address who he is writing to, the clergymen, and ends with a sincerely. L

Letter from Birmingham Jail

He shares advice

With one piece of writing we’ve read (the transcript), William James Collins, also known as Billy Collins, Commencement Address at Colorado College, in May 2008.

Starting off first with genre

In writing, purpose is to do something with determination, trying to persuade the reader to agree with the author, wanting to force the reader to think, act a specific way.

Genre is more basically defined as a category or class of artistic composition

This certain project had to be based on a specific genre, mine was adventure.

Always stressing out over every word and what I had to do.

Collins, Billy. “Poet Laureate Billy Collins Gives Brilliand and Witty Commencement Address at Colorado College, 2008.” Six Rules of Success | Graduation Speech 2009 | Arnold Schwarzenegger, 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.” The Negro Is Your Brother, vol. 212, The Atlantic Monthly, Aug. 1963, pp.78-88. No. 2, https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Letter_Birmingham_Jail.pdf   Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books, 2012. Print.

He says, 2)

the Rhetorical

he genre displayed here is a letter, written from his jail cell correcting the misconceptions held by the clergymen. The purpose of Kings letter was to defend the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism.

Which means he’s innocent.