- 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
8th Grade Writing - Author's Purpose Lesson