Author's Purpose and Reasoning

What is authors purpose????

• why the author likes to write
• What the author is writing
• Why the author is writing
• How the author writes

What are the three reasons we write?
(Authors purpose for writing)

• Persuade, Inform, Electrify
• Perform, Infer, Entertain
• Persuade, Inform, Educate
• Persuade, Inform, Entertain

Persuade means...

• Make people agree with you
• Make people angry
• Make people think the opposite thing
• Make people happy

Inform means...

• Give informal speech
• Give information
• Take the form
• Give in a form

Entertain means...

• To make people scared
• To make people sad
• To make people enjoy something
• To go to the circus

the author wants to give you information

• Entertain
• Persuade
• Inform

the author wants to amuse you or for you to enjoy the writing

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

advertisements, persuasive letters, opinions, campaign speeches are all examples of: 

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

the author wants you to do, buy, or believe something 

• persuade
• inform
• entertain

textbooks, non-fiction books, expository essays, biographies, newspaper articles, and directions are examples of:

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain