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Author’s Purpose

Author’s Purpose. Reasons for Writing. Three Main Purposes. To Entertain To Inform To Persuade Every text serves one of these purposes. Writing to Entertain. The MAIN purpose is to amuse readers. Examples Stories Poems Plays

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Author’s Purpose

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  1. Author’sPurpose Reasons for Writing

  2. Three Main Purposes • To Entertain • To Inform • To Persuade Every text serves one of these purposes.

  3. Writing to Entertain The MAIN purpose is to amuse readers. Examples • Stories • Poems • Plays You may learn something from a story, but the MAIN purpose is to entertain.

  4. Writing to Inform The MAIN purpose is to enlighten the reader. Examples Expository essays Nonfiction texts Instructions or directions Informational writing may be entertaining, but the MAIN purpose is to inform.

  5. Writing to Persuade The MAIN purpose is to convince the reader. Examples Persuasive Essays Persuasive Speeches Persuasive Letters or notes Persuasive writing attempts to change the reader’s mind or get them to do something.

  6. Identifying the Author’s Purpose • Is the text a poem, story, or play?(if “yes” = entertain; if “no” = go to next) • Does the text mainly give facts and info?(if “yes” = inform; if “no” = go to next) • Does the text make arguments?(if “yes” = persuade; if “no” = start over)

  7. Practice You will be graded on participation and completion, not on accuracy. • On a separate sheet of paper, number one through ten. • I will describe a piece of writing. • You will write the author’s purpose: to inform, persuade, or entertain.

  8. 1 A note written by a young girl asking her ex-boyfriend to forgive her.

  9. 2 A recipe for making potato pancakes

  10. 3 The lyrics to a Lil Wayne song

  11. 4 The warnings on a bottle of Tylenol

  12. 5 A mailing from the American Cancer Society asking for donations to help fight cancer

  13. 6 The script for a popular television show about vampires

  14. 7 A map and schedule of bus routes

  15. 8 A poem about how the world’s fresh water supplies are polluted

  16. 9 An advertisement in a magazine to get readers to buy a new video game

  17. 10 A schedule of movies and the times that they show for a local theatre

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