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• All authors and writers have a purpose for writing. • There are three main purposes for a text: – To inform – To persuade – To entertain • Every text serves one of these purposes. Author’s purpose
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• All authors and writers have a purpose for writing.
• There are three main purposes for a text:– To inform– To persuade – To entertain
• Every text serves one of these purposes.
Author’s purpose
Author’s purpose
Three main purposes1. writing to inform
• The reason why an author writes something
• To give information to readers– expository essays, nonfiction
texts– Ex. Describe facts, teach reader
about a topic, report an event
Author’s purpose
1. writing to persuade • To convince the reader to believe something
• Writer is attempting to change reader’s mind about a topic or make reader do something.– argument essays, speeches,
commercials/advertisements– Ex. Describe facts, teach reader
about a topic, report an event
Author’s purpose
1. to entertain • make readers enjoy something• to entertain or amuse readers• you may learn something from
this text, but main purpose is to entertain. – ex. Stories, poems, plays
Author’s purpose
• What is the purpose of your essay about keeping or eliminating organized, after-school sports? – To entertain?– To inform?– To persuade? – WHY???
Author’s purpose
Video 1
• What is the purpose of this video?– To inform? To persuade? To entertain?– Why?
• What is the narrator’s perspective of the product?
Video 2
• What is the purpose of this video?– To inform? To persuade? To entertain?– Why?
Video 3
• What is the purpose of this video?– To inform? To persuade? To entertain?– Why?
