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Informational Text

What is the author’s purpose? Persuade Inform Entertain Explain Describe

Author’s Purpose: To Persuade Persuade: the author wants you to do, buy, or believe something advertisements, persuasive letters, opinions, campaign speeches If the author’s purpose is to persuade, can we believe everything they write to be a fact?

Author’s Purpose: To Inform Inform: the author wants to give you information textbooks, non-fiction books, biographies, newspaper articles

Author’s Purpose: To Entertain Entertain: the author wants to amuse you or for you to enjoy the writing This purpose is not exclusive to non-fiction literature. fiction stories, poems, songs, plays, narratives, memoirs

Author’s Purpose: To Explain Explain: the author wants to tell you how to do something or how something works instructions, directions, steps, procedures, how-to, recipes

Author’s Purpose: To Describe Describe: the author wants you to visualize or experience a person, place, or thing product descriptions, descriptive essays

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