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Title: Author


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Authors Purpose
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Persuade
Authors Purpose Characteristics
Examples
  • Convinces the reader to share the writers
    opinion
  • Uses facts, examples and statistics to prove a
    point
  • Uses words that show value, such as best, worst
    and greatest

Editorials
Persuade
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Inform
Authors Purpose Characteristics
Examples
  • Tells what, how or why
  • Uses facts, statistics, examples, illustrations,
    diagrams, headings and subheadings

Articles
Inform
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Express
Authors Purpose Characteristics
Examples
  • Expresses feelings or emotions on a certain
    topic, but does not try to change your beliefs
  • Uses emotional words and expressions, frequent
    use of I

Poems and essays
Express
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Entertain
Authors Purpose Characteristics
Examples
  • Tells a story can be funny or humorous
  • Uses dialogue
  • Has a beginning, middle and end

Entertain
Stories, novels, plays and poems
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Explain
Authors Purpose Characteristics
Examples
  • Explains a process
  • How something is made or created
  • Can use numbered steps or instructions
  • Key vocabulary--first, next, last

Explain
Articles, recipes
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