Author's Purpose and POV Vocabulary

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Author's purpose?

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Main reason the author writes the text.

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Bias: Author's favoritism towards one side.

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When the author clearly favors one side over the other.

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Informational text

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Text that teaches the reader something.

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Persuasive text:

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Text that aims to get the reader to support the author's position.

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Explanatory text

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Text that teaches the reader a step-by-step method or process.

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All nonfiction text contains bias.

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False