Authors Reasons

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

• Persuade, Inform, Electrify

• Perform, Infer, Entertain

• Persuade, Inform, Educate

• Persuade, Inform, Entertain

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

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

• persuade

• inform

• entertain

What are the many different reasons authors write called?

• author's style

• author's vision

• author's purpose

• author's mission

What is authors purpose????

• why the author likes to write

• What the author is writing

• Why the author is writing

• How the author writes

Do you carpool to school? Do you take a bus? It should be a requirement for everyone to either share a ride or walk to school every day. If we are serious about saving the planet, we must take steps to conserve energy and reduce fossil fuel emissions.

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

• Explain

In a non-fiction book, the author's purpose is to:

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

Biographies and autobiographies were written to:

• Persuade

• Inform

• Entertain

An author's purpose is...

• the reason an author writes

• the reason an author teaches

• author's sense of humor

• author's way of life.