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When an author sits down to write a paragraph, passage, or story, they always have a purpose, or reason, for writing. As we are learning now, when an author has an opinion and writes to give reasons why the reader should think or act a certain way, the author is trying to PERSUADE their reader. Commercials are a great example of persuasive writing because the commercial is trying to talk you into buying or watching or liking a certain product. When an author writes to teacher their audience information about a certain topic by providing facts and information, the author's purpose is to INFORM their reader. Nonfiction books are great examples of this type of writing. However, when an author makes up this fun story with characters, story mountain, etc., their whole purpose is to ENTERTAIN us with this made-up story. Fiction books are great examples of this type of writing. Now remember stories like Lemonade Wars that we read earlier in the year could have happened because it was a realistic story about a brother and sister getting into fights and starting a competition between them. This is still a made-up story to keep the reader excited about hearing the ending and therefore the author's purpose was still to entertain. This is where the acronym P.I.E. comes from (persuade, inform, entertain) when we talk about author's purpose. DIRECTIONS You are the author! Your job is to take this topic: ROLLER COASTERS and write three different paragraphs. One paragraph with each of the author's purpose lenses: persuade, inform, entertain.