Author's Purpose and Choices

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

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

Persuade means...

• Make people agree with you
• Make people angry
• Make people think the opposite thing
• Make people fall in love

Inform means...

• Give informal speech
• Give information
• Take the form
• Give in a form

Entertain means...

• To make people scared
• To make people sad
• To make people enjoy something
• To go to the circus

What is the author's purpose?
A recipe to make an award-winning spicy chicken salad.

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

What is the author's purpose?
A note from your friend asking you to be his science partner.

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

An article arguing why Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player ever.

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

A list of the 25 richest athletes in the world.

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

An “X-men” comic book.

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

A handbook teaching people how to negotiate 

• describe
• explain
• inform
• persuade