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Cards (23)

  • Purpose is the reason or motive that you have when communicating
  • Narrative Purpose - the easiest kind of writing because it comes so naturally to most people. Usually progress chronologically, and must have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
  • Persuasive Purpose - to get your readers to adopt your answer to the question. Choose one answer to your question, support your answer using reason and evidence, and try to change the readers' point of view about the topic.
  • Informative/Expository Purpose - to explain possible answers to your question, giving the readers new information about your topic. You do not push your viewpoint on the readers, but rather try to enlarge the readers' view.
  • Descriptive Purpose - to make the thing being described seem real to your reader's imagination
  • Descriptive Purpose - painting a picture with words
  • TO INFORM - Communicate Ideas and information to others.
  • TO ENTERTAIN - Use language in a humorous way and usually combined with explaining, informing, or arguing.
  • TO EXPLAIN - Gather facts and combine with experiences to clarify who or what something is, how it happened, or why something happened. Also called "expository writing"
  • TO PERSUADE - Uso appeals of logic, emotion, and character to prove a point.
  • TO ARGUE - Special kind of persuasion that fairly and accurately appeals to logic, emotion, and character and uses evidence in stating point of view.
  • TO EVALUATE - Specific kind of arguments, that argues for the merits of a subject
  • TO EXPRESS - Thoughts and felings of author on a specific topic. Often informal.
  • Product - Refers to the output that you intend to produce after considering all the other components.
  • Academic writing is a type of writing produced by students in an academic setting.
  • Academic Writing - This form of writing is impersonal and formal.
  • Citation and referencing are two essential elements of any academic writing.
  • Summary - A summary is a brief,
    complete, and objective restatement of the central idea of a given passage in one's own words
  • Paraphrase - Unlike summaries, which are concise, paraphrases go into about the same amount of detail as that of its source. Paraphrases are full restatements of a source text using an author's own words, A paraphrase has the purpose of making a text more contextualized or more suitable to its readers, It aims to make the passage more accessible.
  • A paraphrase has the purpose of making a text more contextualized or more suitable to its readers
  • Synthesis - A synthesis is a written discussion of a certain topic that combines information and concepts from two or more sources. The purpose of a synthesis is to pinpoint or highlight the relationship of the sources used.
  • purpose of a synthesis is to pinpoint or highlight the relationship of the sources used.
  • Analysis - An analysis is a thorough explanation of the elements or features of a certain text.