Purpose & Author's Tone

Author's Purpose

Authors have several purpose in mind when writing something. They wrote an essay sometimes to :

• Inform
• Entertain
• Persuade

All of this things can make us know their real purpose on their writing. Maybe they want to inform something to the reader,to give entertainment or to persuade the reader. There are a lot of kind of writing with their own purpose..

If the passage contains 

• facts or true information = to inform or teach
• fiction = to entertain
• tries to get you to do something = to persuade or convince 

Here have some information: 

http://www.woodland.k12.mo.us/faculty/rgarner/Reading/Authors%20puropse.htm

Author's Tone

For author's tone, there have 2 basics tone with are :

1. Positive 
2. Negative

We can see the tone after we understand the text either it is positive tone or negative tone. We can tell if the writer is showing  a positive attitude or a negative attitude through his word choice.

• sarcastic
• optimistic
• pessimistic
• indifferent
• cynical
• bitter
• encouraging
• mocking
• praising

In this class, we had made some exercise about this topic. At the end, we can differentiate it.

Click here : http://www.laflemm.com/RfT/Practice/RfTPracticeTone.html