Authors Purpose

What are the three reasons we write?
(Authors purpose for writing)

• Persuade, Inform, Electrify
• Perform, Infer, Entertain
• Persuade, Inform, Educate
• Persuade, Inform, Entertain

The author wants to give you information.

• Entertain

• Persuade

• Inform

the author wants to amuse you or for you to enjoy the writing

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

the author wants you to do, buy, or believe something 

• persuade
• inform
• entertain

“Once upon a time in a magical kingdom, there lived a great hero. He was about to set out on a dangerous quest!”

• Explain
• Persuade
• Entertain
• Inform

Hellen Keller was born in 1880 and died in 1968. Despite being deaf and blind, Keller was a political activist, a lecturer, an author, and a tireless advocate for those with disabilities.

• Entertain
• Explain
• Inform
• Describe

Do you carpool to school? Do you take a bus? It should be a requirement for everyone to either share a ride or walk to school every day. If we are serious about saving the planet, we must take steps to conserve energy and reduce fossil fuel emissions.

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain
• Explain

Advertisements are created to:

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

In a non-fiction book, the author's purpose is to:

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

Biographies and autobiographies were written to:

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain