Purpose and Audience Close Reading. Purpose Purpose means what the text is for.. Ask yourself, Why...

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Purpose and Audience Close Reading

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Purpose and Audience

Close Reading

Purpose

• Purpose means what the text is for..

• Ask yourself,

Why has it been written?

Why is it being said?

PURPOSE EXAMPLES OF TEXTS

To Entertain Films, cartoons, comics

To Inform Newspaper articles, non-fiction stories, documentaries

To Persuade Discursive writing, debates, donations, political stories

To Instruct How to guides, cookbooks, manuals, first aid books!

To Recount Diary entries, journals

To Evaluate School reports, science reports

AUDIENCE

Who is the text for? Who is supposed to read it?Who would be interested in it?• Young/old/teenagers• Male/female• People interested in certain

interest/hobbies…..

Register

Register: refers to language choices used

Are the words used FORMAL OR INFORMAL?

Is it conversational and relaxed … or full of technical terms and jargon

Example: Ebola

Article 1 Article 2

Purpose

(Evidence)

Audience

(Evidence

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Evidence: How do you know this?

What is the purpose/audience of …What do you think the register will be?

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Purpose, Audience(A trickier one!!)

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