ad a speech that was so well put together and it was presented perfectly

His purpose was to educate his audience on what was happening in the world at the time.

he wrote a letter

Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential people during the time that he was alive. Wh

They used genre to sort their writing by similarities and by putting them in different categories.

In the commencement speeches presented by Martin Luther King Jr, Donovan Livingston, and Gloria Anzaldua

hey all had a purpose to write their piece so it had a meaning behind it. The way they all used these writing tactics was unique but they all used them in a way that created an impact.

udience she is trying to reach to is any group of people

The genre of How to Tame a Wild Tongue is a Narrative nonfiction.

ng to reach his other people in his clergy. I believe this because he says ” My dear Fellow Clergymen,

The genre of this work is an essay

The purpose of his speech is to let them know the importance of time

he audience that Collins is trying to reach is his fellow classmates. I believ

I believe the genre of this work is that it is a speech.

have their

Billy Collins Commencement

analyzing three works and how they deal with our key terms.

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audience who have experienced similar prejudice and shame for their cultural background

She was told to stay silent and to get rid of her accent in order to fit-in amongst Americans, and was afraid to speak Spanish around Latinos, Hispanics, and even Chicanos, as she grew up being told that Chicano Spanish is “poor Spanish” (Anzaldua). However, she refused to tame her “wild tongue” and fought back against the discrimination, choosing instead to thrive in and appreciate her culture. As she states, “I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent’s tongue – my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.” (Anzaldua)

as a narrative essay

Another author who presented their writing through a commencement address would be Collins.

Collins’ purpose is to motivate the listener.

his targeted audience was mainly the current and future educators in the American school system.

riting’s genre as being a motivational speech

For Livingston, he presented his writing through a spoken word commencement address

Three authors that accomplished successful writing and communication by using these elements include Donovan Livingston’s commencement address at Harvard, Billy Collins’ commencement address at Colorado College, and Gloria Anzaldua’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. Within all of these writings, audience, purpose, and genre were all used together in their writing to communicate effectively. 

your writing

Anzaldúa, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” 1987. PDF fileLivingston, Donovan. “Donovan Livingston’s Harvard Graduate School of Education Student Speech.” YouTube, uploaded by Harvard Graduate School of Education, 25 May. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XGUpKITeJMCollins, Billy. “Commencement Speech Transcript.” Graduation Wisdom, 2 Oct. 2013, www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm.

as well as looking back at my peer review, as mentioned before.

y how he expresses his words making them really want you to keep listening to what he has to say.

rabs the audiences

purpose of his speech was to never give up

His audience were the people that were to say get down on themselves a

urpose of the commencement speech was to tell you that things don’

In the Billy Collins commencement speech it was open to everyone to pretend to know more than you do, specifically how in the world you got to the point in life of where you are now

The intended audience of MLK’s commencement speech was the fellow clergy because he wrote specifically to them.

he genre

color you are

Martin Luther King Jr uses ethical and emotional appeals, and figurative language, as well as reasoning to appeal to his audiences effectively.

a white clergyman

n the commencement speech written by Martin Luther King Jr

An audience is a group of readers who reads a particular piece of writing and react during and after reading or listening to the piece of writing. An author’s purpose is his reason for or intent in writing. An author’s purpose is to persuade the reader, or even inform the reader.

genre is a category of artistic composition, which is characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter

was all used

those three commencement speeches

The main types of literature that they used were genre, audience, and purpose.

The purpose of your piece which contains the genre as well is the writing itself and whatever you just wrote, that is what the audience will be reading when you are finished

His audience is to whom he is addressing his letter- his fellow clergymen. King begins his letter with “My Dear Fellow Clergymen” (King 1). This address shows who the audience is

writing an informational letter

Martin Luther King Jr. was an active civil rights activist

Similar to Collins’ approach, Martin Luther King Jr. displays an exceptional understanding

Collins writes this speech in hopes to inspire

what genre this commencement address belongs to, it is key to recognize that this is a spoken piece. Therefore it is considered a

ollins spoke the complex language of young adults and was fluent.

Billy Collins is a prime example of knowing who your audience is.

who your

Letter From Birmingham Jail,

The audience is to whom the author is writing for,

More specifically: the structure of the text, or the way the work is getting to the audience, through a blog, speech, or a book.

the genre is the writing an author is creating.

when analyzing a

Collins, Billy. “Commencement Address .” 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.

King, Martin Luther. “Letter From Birmingham Jail 1963.” The United States of America, Birmingham, Alabama.

Determining the genre of the piece helps to reach the audience in the best way. Obtaining these factors and implementing them make a piece of literature successful.  

ing to tell someone how to pronounce her name because she didn’t sound american enough. Although when it comes to speaking Spanish or to her culture and the people in it she also doesn’t fit in ver

Her audience would have to be the Chicanos

nuckles with a sharp ruler. I remember being sent to the comer of the classroom for “talking back” to the Anglo teacher when all I was trying to do was tell her how to pronounce my name. “If you want to be American, speak ‘American.’ If you don’t like it, go back to Mexico where you belong.”  (Gloria Anzaldua). Also on page nine paragraph three in “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” she says “I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have

the Racial

poem/ spoken commencement address

addressing his college peers of 2016

While Donovan Livingston was in high school for his end of the year speech he wanted to do a poem but his teacher said if he was to do that she would cut him mic,

he wanted to focus on the evil of segregation because of how bad Birmingham was out of all the states.

in the letter King directs his attention to eight clergymen

For example in the “letter from Birmingham jail” we are told on page one paragraph three “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here.”

They all have the same objective, the

Genre being the type of text they are writing, audience being the people they were trying to reach, and purpose what they are trying to accomplish.

how to tame a wild tongue”

Donovan Livingston spoken w

You need genre, audience, and purpose to make your writing successful.

I decided to actually make a brainstorm on a piece of pape

Her purpose of this reading was to say that no matter what ethnicity or culture you are, be proud of who you are and to not let the inequality and discrimination affect you.

Commencement address hi

This quote shows how we were all born differently so embrace yourself. Throughout his speech he tries to inspire people to use your voice. Look past the injustice in the school system and reach goals. He also says:

He speaks to the 2016 Harvard graduates and staff

don’t waste even more time worrying about the things on your “To Do” list” (Collins). In this quote he explains how no one is worried about what you didn’t get to do in your future, they only will remember what you did so focus on the present. He also said “When your time is done, you will not be remembered for what clothes you wore or what kind of car you drove.”(Collins). I thought this quote was super important because this affects our time now, even though the speech was spoken more than a decade ago.  I

the genre is a commencement address. .Unlike many other commencement addresses, he tells the students and staff to not focus on the future but to focus on the present instead.

is audience was the 2008 graduating class of Colorado College.

Next, in the Billy Collins’ Commencement Address, he was speaking to many

intended audience was supposed to be eight Clergymen from the south.

He also wants to persuade people

All of these writings have different genres, audiences, and purposes which makes them successful. 

why the writer

King, Martin Luther. “Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter From Birmingham Jail.” Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.], www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html.

Billy Collins’ Commencement Address at Colorado College.” 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.

Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue .” How to Tame a Wild Tongue, www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf.

King uses pathos to evoke strong emotion in the clergymen to prov

udience is clergymen of Birmingham,

ad an understanding in his piece, and he spoke in a way that was powerful, full of intent, and respectful. In the troublesome, oppressive times h

he used a spoken word format.

genre is a commencement address

audience is the professors and graduates of Harvard,

n this piece, and it is evident because to get his point across to the graduates, he writes in a humorous way. For example, Collins says “I think you deserve to know that this will be a finite experience. 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.

but he plays with this genre by adding elements

he genre is a commencement address, the audience is the graduates, and the purpose is to educate and inspire the graduates to live in the moment

Audience is the group of individuals who the writing is targeted towards.

type of story

Collins, Billy. “Billy Collins Commencement Speech”. 19 May 2008. https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm Accessed 29 Sept. 2020. King, Martin Luther, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) [Abridged]”. 16 April 1963. https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/_files/resources/texts/1963_MLK_Letter_Abridged.pdf Accessed 29 Sept. 2020. Livingston, Donovan. “Lift Off”. 25 May 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XGUpKITeJM Accessed 29 Sept. 2020.

it was about writing instead of about pieces of writing

her audience is outsiders

While on the topic of racism, Gloria Anzaldua writes a different type of piece to bring knowledge to the public

n. King was one of the leading people advocating for change. In this letter, racism is brought up in comparison to other issues by saying, “We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany.” (King, 18)

On the other hand, there are completely different types of writing like Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail

This genre of writing

into account and added humor to his speech to keep the audience engaged.

f this is Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail in which he directs the letter to the clergymen at the time

which would be considered a speech

genre is the type of writing style t

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.  Anzaldua, Gloria. How to Tame a Wild Tongue , www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf.  Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.], www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html. 

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Disruptive. Talkative. A distraction. With a passion that transcends the confines of my consciousness — Beyond your curriculum, beyond your standards. I stand here, a manifestation of love and pain, With veins pumping revolution. I am the strange fruit that grew too ripe for the poplar tree. I am a DREAM Act, Dream Deferred incarnate. I am a movement — an amalgam of memories America would care to forget My past, alone won’t allow me to sit still.

) Throughout the speech, he really had all the aspects that a good speech has. He also really knew who his audience and what his purpose was. He knew that he needed to real in the graduates and give them advice as they go on.

This genre can be considered a letter or a formal essay.

t park that has just been advertised on television, and see the 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 who is asking in agonizing pathos: “Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?” 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;” (King)

This piece had a clear audience a

This letter

MLK Jr. had a major vision and purpose for this piece and that is for certain

His genre is touched

th his purpose

He knows who his audience is,

Billy Collin’s speech that he gave at Colorado University was very insightful and had a lot of good advic

Genre is knowing how you are writing

who you

ery things in common, they

Livingston, Donovan.  “Lift Off” . 25 May 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XGUpKITeJM King, Martin Luther, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) [Abridged]” . 16 April 1963. https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/_files/resources/texts/1963_MLK_Letter_Abridged.pdf Collins, Billy. “Commencement Speech”. 19 May 2008. https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm

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He says this as a piece of life advise to give to the newly graduated students who may feel how fleeting and overwhelming it is to focus on the present.

Collins purpose in his speech is to urge students to slow down

His audience is graduate students at Colorado College. In the beginning, Collins is very clear as to introduce what he is speaking about, as well as how long his speech will last. He uses humor to relate and intrigue his listeners. “There is no pleasure you can give an audience that compares to the plea

Billy Collins speech is an inspiring read, something almost anyone could take from

By writing this he shows his understanding of sincerity and relation he has with the clergymen since they are men of Christian faith. He does this many times in his letter by referring to biblical teachings such as Apostle Paul by saying, “and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I. compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

While Martin Luther King Jr. wrote to his clergymen from jail, in response to judgement of the nonviolent protests that occurs in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963

All three authors are speakers, therefore the genre of their writing is speech. B

the listeners ear,

Collins, Billy. “Billy Collins Poet Laureate Colorado College, May 19, 2008.” 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. 1963, okra.stanford.edu/transcription/document_images/undecided/630416-019.pdf.

Once you know who your audience will be and what your purpose is, it is up to you to decide what genre of literature you use to create successful content for your message.

The purpose of

A memoir

King’s speech is genre

his quote reveals the intended audience of the letter as those who disapprove of his work and begins to shed light on the purpose of this writing. The purpose being, to explain

The purpose of Collins’s address is to instill the sentiment that time is a precious thing

his line with the quotes mentioned earlier without a doubt shows this speech was meant for a more mature and educated audience.

ollins’s audience is clear and to the point at beginning of the address

genre is a speech as it shows characteristics that can be thought-provoking

One example of these concepts coming together is shown in Billy Collin’s commencement address to the 2008 graduating class of Colorado College.

Finally, purpose, is the reason an author writes. For example with the protests going on throughout the US a journalist might look to these events for inspiration to write and express their thoughts and ideas on the matter. All of these concepts are essential in writing a literary body of work to identify the feeling it is trying to convey, to whom the writing is trying to reach, to the reason why the author writes. Sometimes these concepts even overlap one another. To reuse a previous example a story in the genre of horror, it’s purpose is to scare and make the reader uneasy and it’s for these characteristics most books in the horror genre are me

An example being a picture book with few words telling a fictional story.

and provides

Anzaldua, Gloria. How to Tame a Wild Tongue.

Another quote describing this insecurity caused by the oppression of her language that Anzaldua feels.

an audience who relates to what she has gone through because they are going through the same, unlike her King writes to people who don’t see like him and people who may not understand what he’s going through, in this instance its white people in power in the United States that have control over certain laws and regulations. ” I came across your recent statement calling our present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom, if ever, do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas … But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and your criticisms are s

you write

Anzaldua purpose is to inspire audience

o the audience she

n for the essay genre, the essay genre is used to make a point about something important. She’s writes about her experiences

chapter of their life, Guidance and inspiration. “Time, on the other hand, is composed of moments. And by arresting one of those moments, by concentrating fully on it, by smashing it under the intensity of your gaze.”(

Collins also clearly identifies his audience when saying a statement like that, he knows he’s talking to recent college graduates who are relaxed and excited, but most importantly he knows they will understand and relate with the joke

gradational

Him saying this shows you how unique he is as a writer and how flexible he can be within his genre. Y

an unusual speech to the recent college graduates at Colorado College.

Speech’s

In Billy Collins, Commencement Address he

dress at Colorado College, Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, and Gloria Anzaldua, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. All three of these pieces perfectly demonstrate the proper use of genre, audience, and purpose. To further understand these subjects were going to look at each piece individually and analyze the genre, audience, and purpose of each

Billy Collins, Commencement

don’t write with no certain

Anzaldúa, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books, 2012. Print.

This assignment reminded me about when I write the three short assignments, those assignments helped me to understand genre, audience, and purpose. This assignment was different from the short assignments because it allowed me to connect all three of the themes together. I drew upon my knowledge from the short assignments to better write this essay.

Gloria Anzaldua’s audience is most likely people outside of her ethnic group such as Chicanos. Chicanos are children in Spanish, the Chicanos weren’t treated that good and they couldn’t speak more then one language, unless something bad would happen.

Gloria Anzaldua was born in 1942 in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Anzaldua is trying to spread positive words but not only does she explore this but she also delves into topics such as racism, and sexism.

In “How to Tame a wild tongue” written by Gloria Anzaldua which she analyzes the social and cultural differences between Mexican culture and American culture and ho

. King leads his language and examples to better appeal to the clergymen

His audience is the eight white clergym

Christan’s

Minister

The genre is in opposite to the previous case which is a formal letter that explains problems and fixes them.

Continuing in Martin Luther King’s letter also shows genre, purpose, and audience.

. Livingston reaches an audience by getting the teachers and students attention while talking about the change of education. Donovan states tha

surrealistic promises

it’s purpose.

The genre is the speec

Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” and, Donovan Livingston’s.

Writers make all kinds of choices and judgements based on what many textbook calls the “rhetorical situation”,  they select a  genre in which to compose, they aim to reach a particular audience, and they write with a particular purpose in mind, among other choices.

the “rhetorical situation”,  they select

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Blau, Susan, and Kathryn Burak. Writing in the Works. Fourth ed., Cenage Learning, 2016

King, Martin Luther. “Letter to Birmingham.” Received by Bishop C. C. J. Carpenter, Bishop Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Milton L. Grafman, Bishop Nolan B. Harmon, Rev. George H. Murray, Rev. Edward Ramage, Rev. Earl Stallings, Birmingham City Jail, 16 Apr. 1963, Birmingham, Alabama. Livingston, Donovan, director. Donovan Livingston’s Harvard Graduate School of Education Student Speech. Youtube, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 25 May 2016, youtu.be/9XGUpKITeJM.

Do I need to separate my paragraphs differently?

In conclusion, I think that King, Collins and Anzaldua all used a different genre to connect with their audience and deliver them a message with a strong purpose.