Identify Purpose in Writing

Whenever you are writing something, there has to be a purpose.

This is the reason you are writing. 

This is the same for anything you read - the writer had a reason for writing it.

You will often see these reasons for writing in a text:

To inform

To persuade

In this activity, you will look at these reasons for writing and start to recognise how a writer uses language to inform or persuade.

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