Author’s Purpose & Author’s Purpose & Audience Audience

Author’s PurposeAuthor’s Purpose

Author’s Purpose: Every time the author writes, he or she has a purpose in mind. Writers usually write to inform, persuade, describe, or to entertain. Understanding an author’s purpose will help readers interpret the information.

The Author’s PurposeP (Persuade)I (Inform)E (Entertain)D (Describe

Non-FictionNon-Fiction

P (persuade)

Persuade means to try to convince someone to think the same way you do.

Examples: advertisements, newspaper editorials, junk mail, posters and commercials.

Non-FictionNon-Fiction

I (Inform)

Inform means to give someone information about something.

Examples: news reports, encyclopedias, pamphlets, charts, etc.

FictionFiction

E (Entertain)

Entertain means to amuse someone.

Examples: Fictional stories, comics, poems, jokes, riddles

Non-FictionNon-Fiction

D (Describe)

Describe means to explain a process or teach a procedure.

Examples: Instructions, How-To manual, cookbook.

Author’s Purpose Fiction and Non-Author’s Purpose Fiction and Non-FictionFiction

Fiction Non-Fiction

Entertain Describe

Inform

Persuade

AudienceAudience

Audience: An audience is a group of readers who reads a particular piece of writing. As a writer, you should anticipate the needs or expectations of your audience in order to convey information or argue for a particular claim. You need to know your audience as an author before you start writing.

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Entertain

Children

Inform

Drivers

Persuade

Runners

Persuade

People who eat fast food

Describe

People who wear bow ties or want to know how to tie a bow tie.

Entertain

Comic readers

Persuade

Smokers

Entertain

Rednecks (Jeff Foxworthy fans)

Area: 104,515 sq. mi (270,692 sq. km). Population: (2010 est.) 4,369,000. Capital: Wellington. Most of the people are of European origin; about one-tenth are Maori, and some are Pacific Islanders and Chinese. Languages: English, Maori (both official). Religions: Christianity (Protestant, Roman Catholic); also Buddhism, Hinduism. Currency: New Zealand dollar. New Zealand consists of the North Island and the South Island, which are separated by Cook Strait, and several smaller islands.

Inform

Anyone who is interested in New Zealand

A storm system will enter the West Sunday into Monday and scoot through the Rockies before tracking from the Plains to the Great Lakes and Upper Midwest Tuesday into Wednesday.

Chapter One

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. I was wishing I looked like Paul Newman —he looks tough and I don't—but I guess my own looks aren't so bad. I have light-brown, almost-red hair and greenish-gray eyes. I wish they were more gray, because I hate most guys that have green eyes, but I have to be content with what I have. My hair is longer than a lot of boys wear theirs, squared off in back and long at the front and sides, but I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood rarely bothers to get a haircut. Besides, I look better with long hair.

In eloquent, unflinching scenes, Night recalls Wiesel's survival as a teenager in Nazi death camps. Each chapter raises questions that have haunted the world since Hitler's rise: How could such a staggering number of innocents have lost their lives at the command of one regime? What does it take to survive when body, mind, and spirit are brutalized for months, even years? Why does God seem to forsake those who suffer? For anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the Holocaust, or of the nature of humanity itself, Night is essential reading.

"We've fallen on our feet and no mistake," said Peter. "This is going to be perfectly splendid. That old chap will let us do anything we like."

"I think he's an old dear," said Susan.

"Oh, come off it!" said Edmund, who was tired and pretending not to be tired, which always made him bad-tempered. "Don't go on talking like that."

"Like what?" said Susan; "and anyway, it's time you were in bed."

"Trying to talk like Mother," said Edmund. "And who are you to say when I'm to go to bed? Go to bed yourself."

"Hadn't we all better go to bed?" said Lucy. "There's sure to be a row if we're heard talking here."

"No there won't," said Peter. "I tell you this is the sort of house where no one's going to mind what we do. Anyway, they won't hear us. It's about ten minutes' walk from here down to that dining-room, and any amount of stairs and passages in between."  

1 lb lean (at least 80%) ground beef

1 can (15.5 oz) sloppy joe sauce

2 cans (12 oz each) Pillsbury® refrigerated Big & Buttery crescent dinner rolls

2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese (8 oz)

1 tablespoon sesame seed

Start by shuffling the number cards and the operation cards, and putting them in two paper bags. Each player starts with two playing pieces, and puts them in the large square in the centre of the game board (the one marked Start). Each player draws a number card. The player with the highest number goes first. A player takes his or her turn like so :

The player draws three number cards and two operation cards. The player then has one minute to form an arithmetic formula using the cards drawn.

He or she does not have to use all the cards. He or she can insert brackets anywhere in the formula. The result of the formula should equal a number next to one of his or her counters. The player then moves his or her counter onto the new square. If the player forms the formula incorrectly, the playing piece he or she tried to move will return to the Start.

At the end of the turn, all the cards are returned back to their respective paper bags. At most one piece may be moved on each turn. If the player decides not to move, he or she should call pass and return the cards to the bags. Pieces may only be moved vertically or horizontally (not diagonally), and cannot be moved into squares that are already occupied.

The winner is the first player to reach a square numbered 0 (zero).  

Knock knock.

Who’s there? Phillip.

Phillip who?

Phillip my bag with candy!

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