Determining Text Purpose Effectively

What are the three main categories of writing purposes?

• To summarize, to critique, and to review

• To describe, to explain, and to instruct

• To entertain, to inform, and to persuade

• To narrate, to argue, and to analyze

Which type of writing is often imaginative and aims to amuse the readers?

• Informative writing

• Persuasive writing

• Descriptive writing

• Entertaining writing

What is an example of a text that aims to entertain?

• A textbook

• A soap opera

• A political speech

• An instruction manual

What is the primary goal of informative writing?

• To amuse the reader

• To provide facts and information

• To create a mental picture

• To change the reader's opinion

Which type of writing provides a series of steps to accomplish a task?

• Instructional writing

• Persuasive writing

• Entertaining writing

• Descriptive writing

What type of writing explains how something works?

• Explanatory writing

• Descriptive writing

• Entertaining writing

• Persuasive writing

Which type of writing provides sensory details to form a mental picture?

• Descriptive writing

• Informative writing

• Persuasive writing

• Instructional writing

What is the main purpose of persuasive writing?

• To provide facts

• To entertain

• To change the reader's opinion

• To describe a scene

Which of the following is an example of persuasive writing?

• A movie review

• A recipe book

• A novel

• A textbook

What question should you ask to determine if a text's purpose is to entertain?

• Does it offer a set of facts?

• Does it attempt to change the reader's opinion?

• Does it provide sensory details?

• Is it a novel, story, or poem?