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A website devoted to the conservation of wildlife would most likely be to ?

• Entertain the reader with cute polar bear pics
• Inform readers of the habitat of polar bears
• Express their feelings about polar bears
• Persuade readers to change their minds about animal rights

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What is the author's purpose for a book series like Harry Potter?

• Inform the reader about magic
• Persuade the reader to become a wizard
• Entertain the reader with a story about a boy wizard
• Express dislike for magic

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This type of writing tries to persuade the reader to think about something in a new way.

• argumentative/persuasive
• narrative
• expository
• description

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An author's claim is..........

• only in fiction text.
• a central idea.
• a fact.
• his/her opinion or stance on something; their argument

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If you want to easily mark up your text, you can use the PUMA strategy to help you.  PUMA stands for:

• P:  point of view U:  underline text M:  mention title A:  annotate
• P:  Perspective U:  understand text M:  main idea A:  answer questions 
• P:  Parts U: Underline important ideas M:  Main idea A:  Answer multiple choice questions
• Parts (label the parts of the text), U (Underline known words and figure out what they mean using context clues), M (main idea of each section), A (Ask questions to the author).

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What is the author's purpose for writing a passage like the following?

An article in a magazine comparing and contrasting waste management in New York City and Mexico City

• to inform
• to entertain
• to persuade
• to describe

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Author's influence? 

• audience.
• purpose.
• background, culture and personal beliefs.
• change. 

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The author's attitude, either positive or negative, toward a subject.

• genre

• setting

• bias

• generalization

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ATTITUDE

Writers want to gain another “vote” so they “go after” readers more aggressively. It is personal, passionate, and emotional.

• Argumentative

• Persuasive

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the reason an author writes; may be to inform, persuade, entertain, or share

• evaluate

• evidence/support

• author's purpose

• credible

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