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Identify Purpose and Audience

The document discusses identifying the purpose and audience of written texts. It provides examples of different purposes such as to entertain, inform, or persuade. It also gives examples of text types and their common purposes, such as news articles to inform, self-help books to inform or persuade, charity letters to persuade, and autobiographies to inform or entertain. The document instructs students to identify the author, audience, and purpose of different examples texts, such as a tutoring center website aimed at students to inform them of tutoring services. Overall, the document teaches how to determine the purpose and intended audience of written works.

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Identify Purpose and Audience

The document discusses identifying the purpose and audience of written texts. It provides examples of different purposes such as to entertain, inform, or persuade. It also gives examples of text types and their common purposes, such as news articles to inform, self-help books to inform or persuade, charity letters to persuade, and autobiographies to inform or entertain. The document instructs students to identify the author, audience, and purpose of different examples texts, such as a tutoring center website aimed at students to inform them of tutoring services. Overall, the document teaches how to determine the purpose and intended audience of written works.

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Identify Purpose and Audience

Student’s name: _______________________________________

Student 1- Identify main ideas, details, Skills Writing


Learning purpose and audience in
Outcome written and spoken texts
s
7-Accurately use Level 5
Grammar

Identifying Purpose and Audience

Let´s see these two elements that shape the content of a paragraph:

1. Purpose: The reason the writer/speaker composes the paragraph/speech.


2. Audience: The individual or group whom the writer/speaker intends to
address.

PURPOSE

Entertain: to make the reader enjoy reading

Inform: to describe or tell a reader about something


persuade: to change a reader’s opinion

What purpose does each of the following texts have?

 a news article:
 a self-help book:
 a letter asking for a charity donation:
 an autobiography:

Example:

Read the excerpt from ABC College's tutoring center website, paying special
attention to the author, audience, and purpose.

Tutoring centers are one of the most important places at ABC College. Here, you
bring your questions about class content to a tutor who is trained in the content
area and in helping students learn. Don't mistake a tutoring center as a place to get
all the answers because that is not true. Instead, our tutoring center has tutors
whose job it is to help you learn how to understand the material and help you figure
out the answers; however, our tutors will never just tell you the answer. If you visit
the tutoring center often, you will develop a better understanding of the course
content and how to work through the material on your own.

Author:

Audience:

Purpose:

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Read the following email and then determine the author, audience, and
purpose.
 

Alicia,

I am concerned that you are not managing your time as well as you could. I see
that you seem to be doing all of your homework, which I realize is a considerable
amount of time; however, you have not completed any assigned projects. If you
can only choose between turning in homework or a project (although it would be
best to do both), you should consider doing your projects because they make up
over 50% of your total grade while all your homework combined only makes up
20% of your grade. You can miss one or two homework assignments and still
receive an A or B in the class.

Perhaps there are some other ways you can manage your time. I would be happy
to help you come up with some solutions for you to do better in this course. Please
refer to the syllabus for my office hours and come by soon.

Who is the author? _________________________________

Who is the audience? _________________________________

What is the purpose? _________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________
IDENTIFYING THE PURPOSE AND THE AUDIENCE ---EXERCISE

Here is an example text from the CBBC website. How can you tell the purpose of the text and the
intended audience?

AUDIENCE:__________________________
PURPOSE:________________________________________________________

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