Anzaldua could relate to her audience on a personal level be

Anzaldua was speaking to people who have gone through similar struggles as her. Anzaldua was explaining to her audience

Collins was speaking to a group of graduates. Collins was very direct with his audience and knew exactly what they needed to hear. I think that Collins understood his audience very well and that made it easier for him to talk to them and inspire them.

. King was writing specifically to a group of white religious leaders. King was a religious leader himself so he knew exactly who his audience was and how to connect with them. King’s audience was small so he wrote a letter so he could specifically talk to them.

Audience to me is the group of people who read your work or listen to what you are saying

. Anzaldua was talking about her struggles and what has upset

commencement speech

s an inspirational speech

believe that genre of King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” was a letter. King was in a situation where he needed to speak with specific people and get them to understand where he is coming from. I think it was smart for King to write a letter so he can connect with the right people.

at the genre can be found within the theme

so you can use your writing to effectively communicate with them.

who your

readers attention

King, Martin Luther, Jr. “Letter From Birmingham Jail (1963)”. 16 April 1963. https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/_files/resources/texts/1963_MLK_Letter_Abridged.pdfAnzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” .https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdfCollins, Billy. “Commencement Speech”. 19 May 2008. 

While I was revising, I  realized that I needed to put in quotes and do a better job explaining how the authors actually use audience, purpose, and genre together to create a successful piece of writing.

“Education is no equalizer —Rather, it is the sleep that precedes the American Dream.So wake up — wake up! Lift your voicesUntil you’ve patched every hole in a child’s broken sky.Wake up every child so they know of their celestial potential.I’ve been a Black hole in the classroom for far too long;Absorbing everything, without allowing my light escape.But those days are done. I belong among the stars.And so do you. And so do they.Together, we can inspire galaxies of greatnessFor generations to come.No, sky is not the limit. It is only the beginning.Lift off.“

audience of this beautiful piece was the 2016 graduates, staff members and proud family members.

speech in a form of a poem that was given at his 2016 graduation.

I hope this letter finds you strong in the faith. I also hope that circumstances will soon make it possible for me to meet each of you, not as an integrationist or a civil rights leader, but as a fellow clergyman and a Christian brother. Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all of their scintillating beauty.“

e his audience was the people that felt indifferent and whom was caring out all the wrong doings

writing is a letter t

genre in Martins piece

Billy Collins, Commencement Addres

Genre is the type of writing the piece is, it could be poetry, drama, or other literature styles. Purpose is the writers intent on writing,

A writer uses audience as a style of language, tone, and content a

any type of writing what does audience, genre, and purpose even mean? and what are they?

When thinking about composing

King Jr., Martin Luther. Letter from Birmingham. liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/_files/resources/texts/1963_MLK_Letter_Abridged.pdf. Livingston, Donovan. “Lift Off” .25 May 2017. https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htmCollins, Billy. “Poet Laureate.” Poet Laureate Billy Collins Gives Brilliand 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.

her audience

he genre by sa

how his purpose is to try and get them to live in the present i

This shows how he uses humor as a way to engage his audience.

e knows his audience and genre:

Billy Collins’ Commencement Address is another piece that executes on audience, purpose, and genre perfectly

the genre

This shows that King Jr. is telling these clergymen th

how to use the key terms

Three great examples of writing that use these key terms the best are Billy Collins’ Commencement Address, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, and Gloria Anazaldua’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. These three examples know how their genre, their audience, and their purpose are necessary in order to create a successful piece of writing. 

for the writer

King, Martin Luther. “A Letter to Birmingham Jail”. 1963. Anzaldua, Gloria. How to Tame a Wild Tongue. Collins, Billy. Commencement Address. Colorado College,

mistakes I made in the first draft,

It also helped to use my first draft to guide my ideas for the second draft.

However it also is motivational

he is here to empower colored women

herefore her audience is women and young adults

Lastly, Gloria Anzaldua’s written piece “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” about empowering colored women to not be silenced and the experiences she has overcome.

He is talking to colored Americans

he purpose of this speech like Collins is to motivate college graduates

Livingston is a young man who is speaking to young adults who have also I’m sure had some similar hardships to him. He had a more relatable approach to this speech. He was also quick and to the point but more in a musical sense where the words flow together from the poem into spoken word

He wrote this piece to fit a specific mold of graduation speeches

He knows to be motivational but knows his audience. He talks about how the future is of course important but the present is taken for granted so much so that people forget to live it, everyone is so focused on having the best future and getting everything they want that they forget to live now. H

The genre of the first commencement address is a comical motivational speech

etty straight forward… college graduates. Collins tackles this speech a little differently by making his speech more funny and self deprecating rather than kinda long and boring like most speakers at these events. I think that is the perfect example of how well Collins knew his audience,

lets talk about Billy Collins commencement address to Colorado college

To start of

Three Writers

if you ask me

Donovan Livingston’s commencement speech-https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10153893399331387

Billy Collins commencement speech-https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm

Do I need to separate the topics in each paragraph or keep it the same every time and make that organization clear.

corse

writing does remind me of assignments I did in history in high-school called DBQ’s. Its a Document Based Questions essay where you have a packet of documents such as pictures, pieces or works

analyzing the purpose of

As educators,

Livingston starts with the word together, meaning his fellow classmates. He then goes on to explain how he and his classmates will go on to inspir

When comparing two individuals, it is important to consider their most significant qualities. Martin Luther King Jr. and Donovan Livingston, a student speaker at the Harvard Graduate School graduation convoc

entire piece of writing is in letter format. Thus, the genre of this piece is a letter.

why Dr. King is writing to the clergymen,

Right off the bat, Dr. King has established his purpose for writing this letter. The actions he has taken to protest injustice in the city of Birmingham, Alabama have been condemned by clergymen. He also mentions how he rarely responds to criticism toward his work, thus readers can understand how important this purpose really is.

The majority of the world can agree that Martin Luther King was the biggest among black voices in all of history, and also an amazing writer, and his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” i

Each make an astounding use of their rhetorical situations – genre, audience and purpose.

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. Collins, Billy. “Poet Laureate.” Poet Laureate Billy Collins Gives Brilliand 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, Martin Luther. “Letter to Birmingham.” Birmingham City Jail. Birmingham, Alabama. 16 Apr. 1963,

I definitely focused mostly on my voice. Throughout writing however, I certainly began to realize how important these concepts of audience, genre and purpose were. They’re very connected to one another, and are required to make a good piece of writing

d the audience.

Which is a terrible but real fact about World War 2.

pose of the letter is to show th

He also uses repeated use of religion, speaking of Jesus and God.

in a world in which adults tend to think they know everything.

That shows an understanding of one’s audienc

Your audience

These Speakers

They want to guide their predecessors to do great things as most people do. 

This shows that he really wants to see change throughout the country. He overall wants peace and for everyone to be viewed the same. 

, this letter

purpose behind this letter is to gain peace

st. In Donavan Livingston’s “Lift Off” speech, he is trying to reach families, faculty, staff, alumni, and fellow graduates. T

message

In Collin’s “Commencement Speech” the genre is a graduation speech and the purpose is to inspire or influence that audience in which in this case the audience are a bunch of college graduates

pose can be to inform, explain, persuade, explain

you choose

each category comes with a set of rules and requirements

listen too

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 King Jr., Martin Luther. Letter from Birmingham. 16 April 1963. liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts/_files/resources/texts/1963_MLK_Letter_Abridged.pdf.  Livingston, Donovan. “Lift Off” . 25 May 2017. https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm

I took the advice that my partner gave me and teacher.

form

defiantly

is trying to inspire the audience of teachers

The purpose of this speech is to tell the students not to worry too much

. He knows his audience well and understands them as he states in the first paragraph “ I think you deserve to know that this will be a finite experience.

elling you

The purpose of Gloria Anzaldua’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” is to educate people about the Chicano’s identity and how they are taught to hate it and be ashamed of it.

ever her audience is also people who do not know about the Chicano hardships or don’t care about i

The genre of Gloria Anzaldua’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” is a memoir

Writers must know the proper genre of their writing since it will set up an expectation to the readers

Bibliography

nzaldúa, Gloria. How to Tame a Wild Tongue. Aunt Lute Books, 1987. Everett, https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf. Accessed 30 September 2020. Collins, Billy. “Commencement Speech Transcript.” Graduation Wisdom, 19 May 2008, https://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0135-Billy-Collins-Gives-Brilliant-Witty-Commencement-Speech-Address-At-Colorado-College-2008.htm. Accessed 30 September 2020. Livingston, Donovan. “Donovan Livingston’s Harvard Graduate School of Education Student Speech.” YouTube, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 25 May 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XGUpKITeJM&ab_channel=HarvardGraduateSchoolofEducation. Accessed 30 September 202

as he is writing an open letter

Knowing that they are men of the church, he compares himself and his duties to those of biblical figures, a

in his letter

white churchmen t

In the spring of 1963, non-violent protests were reaching their peak in Birmingham.

His message clearly extends further than Harvard, to all colleges and schools, because he knows they are capable of change for the better.

Many of the attendees are teachers and students alike

he wants teachers

criticise

you become

but every citizen of the U.S. to take action against injustice and to stop damning those who do.

with the audience

the genre of informative speech with persuasion as well.

Livingston

The writer acknowledges his audience by letting them know that he knows life can carry us away. He shows

The genre of his commencement address is persuasive speech

Billy Collins effectively utilized the concepts of genre, audience, and purpose in his 2008 commencement speech at Colorado College.

He wants his audience t

The audience he’s trying to reach is everyone

The genre of this piece of writing is to inform and persuade

In Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, King focuses on expressing the events of segregation and civil right movement. 

This can help the writer break down into pieces what the purpose of his writing is. In Martin Luther King Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, Billy Collins “Commencement Address”, and Donovan Livingston, Spoken Word Commencement these key terms are persuaded throughout these writings. 

Genre is a way of organizing compositions into categories that may have similar characteristics to one another. When things are separated into genres

 In what other ways can I improve my wording?

The choice I made while drafting and revising was to make this piece as organized as I can for my sake and the readers.

I would look back at them for feedback.

This assignment

genre because it teaches the audience about other cultures and their struggle in America

Gloria Anzaldua’s How to Tame a Wild Tongue is about a young girl who has Mexican heritage who cant talk about her heritage with out teachers punishing her for being who she is. At home she gets punished for speaking English by her mother. She doesn’t have a chance to express herself at school or at home because if she speaks Spanish the people at school will tell her to back to Mexico and punish her while at home her mother punishes her for speaking English.

he audience for Donovan’s speech was the Harvard graduating class and anyone who was graduating

Similar to kings Letter, Donovan Livingston’s speech at Harvard tells a story of how if he was born two hundred years ago he wouldn’t have been where he was today. If he was born the he wouldn’t have been allowed to learn, and if he did he would have been killed. He explains how he was able to properly see how amazing education can be and how students today should take the most of their opportunity.

King explains that people have an uneasiness about breaking the laws put in place. He then explains the 1954 supreme court decision that made segregation in public schools illegal

In the Letter from Birmingham Jail King was talking about how he was disgusted at the injustices happening around him

Billy explains that these most graduates fall into two categories; the pragmatic and the poetic. T

The genre of his speech would be educational

A: In Billy Collins’s commencement address he talks about the future and what will come next.

Outline

II B: analysis

I A: Big idea and why they wrote it

Postwrite

S1 Collins, Billy. 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. S2 Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.], 16 Apr. 1963, www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html. S3 Harvard Graduate School of Education. “Donovan Livingston’s Student Speech.” Facebook Watch, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 26 May 2016, www.facebook.com/HarvardEducation/videos/10153893399331387. S4 Anzaldua, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.”

”He aims to inspire and motivate his audience

He is speaking to teachers, educators, and role models that will inevitably go on to influence their students’ lives. L

“Lift Off” by Donovan Livingston is significantly different from “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” and “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” as it is a spoken word poem

as King tailors his language and examples to better appeal to the clergymen. He uses biblical examples

audience of King’s composition is the clergymen (a group of Christian and Jewish religious leaders

too

Anzaldúa aims to educate non-Chicanos about the experiences of her cultural group

Anzaldúa’s audience is most likely people outside of her ethnic group, Chicanos.

In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” the genre is a memoir or essay, the audience is people outside her specific ethnic group, and the purpose is to educate and inform her audience.

For example, the audience of Green Eggs and Ham is children, while Game of Thrones was written for a much more mature audience.

The Interrelationship of Genre, Audience, and Purpose

Livingston, 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=9XGUpKITeJM

How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” Borderlands/La Fronteira, by Gloria Anzaldua, Aunt Lute Books, 1987, pp. 33–45. 

Genre is used for the audience to follow. Audience i

The purpose of Livingston’s poem/speech is to tell people

He directly targets his audience, the teachers and education system,

Like tokens in coined phrases? “Diversity. Inclusion” There are days I feel like one, like only —A lonely blossom

but he combined the genre of a speech and a dramatic poem.

whole purpose of this speech is to live in

speech is a very interesting way,” One final wish: Salvador Dali once said that ‘Every morning when I waken, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali.’ May you graduates waken every morning to experience the supreme pleasure of being yourselves.” (Collins). He connected this quote by Dali to the quote of the Roman poet Horace to show that you should be happy to be who you are because you only have one life to live; might as well live it. C

brown:

a speech

a speech

He directly states his purpose in these eight words.

Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their “thus saith the Lord” far beyond the boundaries of their hometowns, 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.” (King). He incorporates passages from the Bible because he knows that the Clergyman follow the Bible as he does

skin color of the men he was writing to, but the fact that they are Christian Clergymen from Alabama. In knowing that they both follow the Bible;

the Caucasian’s

artin Luther King Jr. was a black man born and raised in the South. He was a Christian Minister who became a very active leader during the civil rights movement through the 1950’s-1960’s.

Martin Luther King Jr. did a superb job in effectively using genre in his “Letter from Birmingham

The first piece of writing that uses these three concepts well is a letter written by Martin Luther King Jr.

your

In simpler terms, a form of writing.

Collins, Billy. “Poet Laureate.” Poet Laureate Billy Collins Gives Brilliand 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, Martin Luther. “Letter to Birmingham.” Birmingham City Jail. Birmingham, Alabama. 16 Apr. 1963,

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When I was drafting and revising, I tried to fix some of my grammar and work on my transitioning sentences.

, his audience is college students and young adul

is also a speech.

Her audience is not one specific group

The genre of her work is informative

reach an audience of both Hispanics and whites

reshly graduated college students

The purpose is to motivate and insp

whole speech is motivational,

Donovon

Donovon Livingston’s commencement address’s genre was a speech.

“Donovan Livingston, S

You can’t just start writing without a purpose, it could be to spread your message, to inform people, or just to tell a story. Without purpose, you have no work. 

Works Cited Donovan Livingston, Spoken Word Commencement Adress at Harvard Anzaldúa, Gloria. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books, 2012 Print. Billy Collins, Commencement Address at Colorado College

he audience she is referring to in this passage is the Chicanos as she says

n Gloria Anzalduas, How to Tame a Wild Tongue, she often arguing how our identities are being intertwined by the way people talk badly about us because of the way we speak as if it’s made to be shameful (Anzaldua).

she often arguing