Author’s Purpose
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Author’s PurposeFreshman EnglishSecond Semester
Author’s Purpose
•An author writes to share ideas about a given topic.•Three different kinds of purposes when addressing an audience:•To inform•To argue/persuade•To tell a story
Informative Writing• Facts, statistics, true
information.• Explains or gives the
audience information on a specific topic.• Also known as
expository writing.• Examples: Textbooks,
cookbooks, informational brochures, etc.
Argumentative Writing• To persuade or to argue
a point, that the audience will accept.• Usually this is the
authors own feelings, bias, or beliefs.• Also known as
persuasive writing• Examples: Commercials,
advertisements, newspapers, etc
Narrative Writing• Written to entertain,
interest, or appeal to the reader.
• Mostly fictional writing, but can be factual.
• This writing usually elicits some sort of emotional response from the audience. (sad, happy, scared, etc)
• Examples: Poems, stories, plays, comics, etc
Ask yourself these questions…
•Did they author try to make me laugh, cry, hide under my bed?•Did the author try to get me to buy
something, change something, or think a certain way?•Did the author try to teach me
something, give me facts, or statistics?
Why do we need to know this?
• Helps to prepare your mind for the type of information you are reading. (You will already know the point)• Helps when summarizing the main ideas of
the text.• Helps to discriminate the main points and
the small details of the text.
How Do Authors Achieve Purpose?
Diction
•Diction = the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.• Denotative – literal/dictionary meaning• Connotative – figurative/associated
meaning. • Slaughtered• Denotative: “The killing of animals especially for food.”• Connotative: The Falcon’s basketball team slaughtered WWS.
Tone
• The authors attitude towards the topic.• The attitude is expressed through
word choice, or diction.• There are two different types of tone,
subjective and objective.
Objective Tone• Objective tone is
“impartial”.• Does not show
feelings, and is neither for or against a topic.• Unbiased or neutral• Does not use
pronouns such as “I and You”• Examples: Textbooks
Subjective Tone• Subjective tone is
personal and biased.• The author is writing to
evoke an emotion within the audience.• Author uses words that
describe feelings, experiences, or thoughts• This writing is often
informal.• Example: Stories or Poems