E1_Bootcamp 8A: Author's Purpose (1)

Author’s Purpose and

Audience

Author’s Purpose

Author’s write a text for a reason, some of the
main reasons are:

1.

To Persuade

2.

To Inform or Explain

3.

To Entertain

Examples of Author’s Purpose- PIE

Persuade

Examples are:

●A speech

●Argumentative paper

●Advertisements

●Reviews

Entertain

Examples are:

●Novels

●Poems

●Musicals

●Comics

●Plays

Inform

Examples are:

●A “How To” Book (how to cook, how to make a bracelet)

●Biography

●Textbooks

●Encyclopedias

Categorize

Options (18)

Speech

argumentative essay

advertisement

opinion piece

debate

persuasive letter

news article

documentary

textbook

research paper

instructional manual

how-to guide

novel

movie

stand-up comedy

short story

musical

podcast

Categorize the following texts into the correct column

To Persuade

To Inform

To Entertain

Strategies for finding author’s purpose:

Labelling

Label the details that give us clues to the Purpose:

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Setting

Date of publication

Author

Subheading

Climax

Characters

Photograph

Title

Introduction

You Try! What do you think the purpose is of this text?

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of this text?

• To Inform

• To Persuade

• To Entertain

• To Express Feelings

Determining the audience is easy if you know the message or main idea(s) of the text. The Author will always keep the Audience in mind when developing their Message

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​Intended Audience

Dropdown

The Audience of "Who Was Anne Frank?" could be ​ ​

Select answer

Match

Match the Text with the correct author's purpose.

To Persuade

To Persuade

To Entertain

To Entertain

• To Persuade

• To Persuade

• To Entertain

• To Entertain

Match

Who might be the intended audience of each of these texts?

Parents worried about personalities

People wanting to change themselves

Children who like easy stories

People who like a good mystery

• Parents worried about personalities

• People wanting to change themselves

• Children who like easy stories

• People who like a good mystery

Hotspot

"It may seem counterintuitive that a print product can thrive

in the digital age."

Why might an author include this rebuttal?

Hotspot

What text might help support our answer that it indicates the information he presents may be surprising to readers?

Hotspot

Click on the correct answer choice for the text, "The National Road"