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Author's Purpose: Modes of Writing

The document discusses the three main modes or purposes of writing: to inform, persuade, or entertain. It provides examples of each purpose and how to identify the purpose of a given text. The author's purpose is to teach the reader about the different modes of writing and how to determine the purpose. The document concludes with a practice activity where the reader identifies whether a given text is meant to inform, persuade, or entertain.

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Author's Purpose: Modes of Writing

The document discusses the three main modes or purposes of writing: to inform, persuade, or entertain. It provides examples of each purpose and how to identify the purpose of a given text. The author's purpose is to teach the reader about the different modes of writing and how to determine the purpose. The document concludes with a practice activity where the reader identifies whether a given text is meant to inform, persuade, or entertain.

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Authors Purpose

Modes of Writing
Three Reasons for Writing

1. To Inform (Expository)
2. To Persuade (Persuasive)
3. Entertain (Narrative or Poetry)
Writing to Inform
Often called expository writing.
Expository writing shows or explains facts.
Examples:
Biography of Barack Obama
News report about a shooting
Note to a friend
Essay about killer bees

Remember: Expository = Expose


Writing to Persuade
Attempts to influence the reader.

Usually makes an argument.

Examples:
Political speeches
Advertisements
A cover letter for your resume
An essay urging readers to recycle
Writing to Entertain
Narratives: stories.
Have a beginning, middle, and end

A story may have a lesson, but the


authors main purpose is to entertain.
Examples of Writing to Entertain
Harry Potter books
Poems about love
Narrative essay about the big game
Script for a TV show
Is it a story, poem, or drama (script)?

Yes No

Does the text make arguments?

Yes No

Does the text give facts?

Yes No Start
Over

Entertain Persuade Inform


Review
Informative or expository writing
provides factual information about a topic.

Persuasive writing expresses an opinion


(may use facts to support).

All narratives are written to entertain, but


so is poetry.
Practice
You will be graded on participation
and completion, not on accuracy.

1. On a separate sheet of paper, number


one through ten.
2. I will describe a piece of writing.
3. You will write the authors purpose: to
inform, persuade, or entertain.
1
The story of a teenage boy learning to
understand and live with his father, who is
an alcoholic Vietnam war veteran.
2
A list of the 25 richest athletes in the world.
3
An article arguing why Michael Jordan is
the greatest basketball player ever.
4
An X-men comic book.
5
The story about a young girl with low self-
esteem learning to love herself.
6
A National Geographic article about the
eating and breeding habits of the
endangered bald eagle.
7
A website saying that a new shopping mall
should not be built because it threatens an
endangered bald eagles home. The
website also lists other reasons why the
mall should not be built.
8
A poem about bald eagles.
9
A magazine ad telling you to buy Nike
Hyperdunk shoes because youll jump
higher.
10
A sign saying, Rest Stop Five Miles Ahead.
Answers
1. Entertain
2. Inform
3. Persuade
4. Entertain
5. Entertain
6. Inform
7. Persuade
8. Entertain
9. Persuade
10. Inform

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