- Author's Purpose
- When authors write, they have a specific purpose in mind. They want a text to affect the reader in some way. This is known as the author’s purpose. Authors write texts for many different purposes.
These are common types of author’s purposes:
- Teach: has steps in a process and directions
- Entertain: uses humor, narration, tells a story, etc.
- Inform: uses mainly facts and information
- Persuade: tries to get the reader to believe, think, feel, or do something
- Describe: uses details and description