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Author’s Purpose P I E S PIES

To Persuade To Persuade: When an author wishes to make an audience feel a certain way about a topic.

To Inform To inform: When an author wishes to simply covey information to an audience

To Entertain To Entertain: When an author wishes to simply entertain an audience

To Describe or Share a Personal Experience To Describe: When an author wishes to convey a picture or feeling to an audience.

Point of View When an FCAT question refers to an author’s point of view, it is not referring to the traditional 1st person or 3rd person voice, but rather the perspective of the author towards his or her subject. The way that the author’s point of view can be determined is by looking at the words he/she chooses to use to describe situations or people.

Author’s Purpose Types of Writing Persuasive: To persuade: to express an opinion and convince readers to think/feel/act a certain way. ex. Newspaper or magazine articles

Expository Expository: To inform-explain, illustrate, or present information. ex. Science, educational or journal articles

Narrative Narrative: To entertain- To tell a story ex. fiction

Descriptive To describe: To describe or share a personal experience- a person, event, or place: convey a mood. ex. Poetry, restaurant review

Methods of Organization Cause & Effect: Why it happened Cause) Something that has happened (effect) Compare & Contrast: How two or more things are alike and different.

Spatial Order To describe how something looks or its location. Spatial order description might proceed from bottom to top, left to right, or from nearby to far away.

Time Order Events in chronological order. Example a time line.

Flashback The author starts with a situation and then flashes-back to an earlier event.

Bulleted lists Used for informational texts to make important points

Foreshadowing Used in literary texts. Early on, the author will give hints of things that will happen later in the story.

Question/Answer Used in informational texts. The author asks a question in the first paragraph or two and then answers it.

Argument/Support Used in informational texts. The author takes a stand on an issue and than supports it with details.

Cause/Effect Signal Words because of created by caused by led to the reason for on account of since due to since therefore consequently outcome so then as a result of finally thus for this reason