W.8.4

Common Core Standards Author's Purpose
Grade:	8th Grade
Standard:	Literacy.W.8.4
Description:	Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)

Author's Purpose: When authors write a text, they have in mind a specific purpose, or what they want to achieve in the text. This is known as the author’s purpose. Authors write texts for many different purposes.

These are common types of author’s purposes:

Instruct: includes steps in a process and directions

Entertain: uses humor, narration, tells a story, etc.

Inform: includes mainly facts and information

Persuade: tries to get the reader to believe, think, feel, or do something

Describe: uses details and description

Common Core Standards

Author's Purpose

Literacy.W.8.4

Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)