The document discusses the different purposes an author may have for writing a document, including to entertain, inform, or persuade. It notes that an author may entertain to make the reader laugh or cry, inform to teach something new, or persuade to try and change the reader's mind about a topic. The document encourages analyzing whether the author intended to entertain, inform, or persuade to understand their underlying purpose.

1. A Joe Fasen Enhanced Power point

2. Authors' purpose
Why did the author
write the book?

3. •Entertain
•Instruct
•Persuade
•Describe

4. •to inform
•to sell
•to show a different
point of view

5. Let’s look closer at
author’s purpose…

6. The author is trying to get you to laugh, or
cry, or yell with excitement. They may try
to scare you or make you worried!

7. The author is trying to teach you
something.

8. The author
tries to change
our minds
about
something.

9. •Did the author try to make me laugh?
• Entertain
Did the author want to tell me a story?
•
•
Entertain

10. Did the author give me facts? Inform
Did the author try to teach me something? Inform
Did the author try to convince me? Persuade
Did the author want to change my mind? Persuade