Tuesday, 19^th March 2013…

Today class Miss Zu taught us about author purpose and tone. There are many purposes for an author’s writing such as they want to inform, to perform a task, to sell, to inspire, to correct a misunderstanding, to show differing point of view, to review a film and last but not least to review a book. There are important reasons for author’s to write which are to entertain (tells a story that describes something or someone in an interesting way), to instruct (explain or teach something in the story that the reader does not know, the author provide knowledge to the reader), to persuade (tries to change our opinion on a topic by appealing to our emotions) and to describe (to support other purposes in writing. They use it to create a character, set a mood or envision a scene). By knowing the author purpose, you will prepare your mind for the type of information in the reading; make the article easier to summarize and to make it easier for you to discriminate between the article’s main idea and important details. For tone the writer’s use of words and writing styles to demonstrate his or her stand towards the issue. There are a few example of tone such us indignant, evasive, incredulous, optimistic, pessimistic, mocking, malicious, compassionate, cynical and bitter. That’s from me for today…