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When reading, it is always important to figure out the author's purpose and attitude. Since the author may not come right out and say his or her purpose, the reader must look for hidden meanings.
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When reading, it is always important to figure out the author's purpose and attitude. Since the author may not come right out and say his or her purpose, the reader must look for hidden meanings. A good reader must evaluate underlying assumptions and recognize bias, prejudices, emotional language, or propaganda that the author uses to make his or her point. When possible, it is also helpful to think about the author's life and what events might have made him or her feel a certain way.
What is the author's purpose in writing? (to entertain, inform, persuade, direct) • Has the author presented all sides of an argument or issue? • If so, is the article balanced toward all points of view or biased toward one point of view? • Are there enough facts to support each side? • Can you trust what the author says? • Is the author being fair? • Does the author use words that seem angry or overly excited?
When reading a text, it is important to keep the writer's point of view in mind. Everyone has certain biases, opinions, or prejudices. These things affect the meaning and language of their communication.
Bias is a preference that prevents objectivity. A person can only be objective when he or she is uninfluenced by emotions, personal prejudices, or bias. This includes the relationships he or she might have with other people. Example: • Think about how a family member might describe you. Now think about how your teacher, a friend, or a stranger might describe you. They will all have different things to say based on their perspective.
Example: • A mother might not like a film because it was too violent, but her son might love it. If each were to describe the film to you, the son would probably use words like "exciting" and "awesome." The mother might say it was "disturbing" or "inappropriate." Think about their ages and perspectives and how it might affect their opinions.
Examples:The test was so unfair. I studied forever and still only got a C. My son is the smartest kid in his class and the best in sports. Dad, do I have to go to the dentist? It is so scary there! The machines are big enough to fill our house, and the doctor is mean. And I think the toothpaste they use tastes like sand.
In 1860, Salt Spring Island was a wilderness. Cougars, bears, and a few wolves hunted on the island. Nobody had lived here before the Starks and other farmers began settling the island. The steep hills and dense forests made it hard to even walk. Louis Stark used what he had learned in Kentucky to make a farm in the wilderness. He built a cabin, and the first year on the island, he cut and dried wild meadow grass for the cattle. The next year he cleared a meadow and planted it. The nearby Cowichan Indians helped the settlers in many ways. They carried people and their belongings between the island and the mainland in their canoes. They traded food with the settlers and taught them about the plants on the island. They showed settlers how to dry fish, deer, and other animals they had hunted.from Sylvia Stark: A Pioneer by Victoria Scott and Ernest Jones Biography of a Pioneer Family
A. the first settlers of Greenland and Iceland: 1860-1900. • B. the best places to stay on Salt Spring Island. • C. the native peoples of Salt Spring Island: 1860-1900. • D. great politicians of British Columbia. Writing the story above probably took a lot of research. Now that they've studied this subject in depth, the authors might also have enough information to write about
When I was little, animals took on lives and characteristics which nobody knew anything about except myself. Little things that people did or said grew into fantastic stories. There was a man who turned into an alligator for my amusement. All he did was live in a one-room house by himself down near Lake Belle. He came into the village one evening near dusk and stopped by the store. Somebody teased him that if he did not hurry up and get married, he was liable to go wild, living alone out there. I saw him tending his garden, but I made an image of him in my imagination that was different. In my mind, his work-a-day hands and feet became the claws of an alligator. A tough, knotty hide crept over him, and his mouth became a huge snout with prong-toothed, powerful jaws. I could just see him crawling from his door at night, turning his ugly head from left to right to see who was looking, then gliding down into the dark waters of Lake Belle. When I heard the thunder of bull 'gator voices from the lake on dark nights, I used to whisper to myself, "That's Mr. Pendir! Just listen at him!"adapted from "Figure and Fancy" by Zora Neale Hurston, in Hurston-Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
A. because the alligators often talked the same way to her • B. because that is how she would have talked back then • C. because it is how the alligator wanted the girl to talk • D. because everyone talks that way when they are little What is the reason the author uses the words "Just listen at him!" instead of "Just listen to him"?
