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Audience and purpose - Coggle Diagram
Audience and purpose
purpose
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explanation that connects all the examples together (explains how they are all examples of the same thing)
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in the context of writing a text, the purpose is the goal that the text sets out to achieve
arguably, all texts have a communicative purpose -- they all seek to communicate something (whether it's a reason to persuade you, or something to entertain you, etc. )
purpose in texts, specifically
depending on what the purpose of the text is, various things change:
the structure
titles and headings will appear in a text that has the purpose of communicating information clearly. but they won't appear in a text that is seeking to make a single argument
the introduction of two different types of texts will change depending on the purpose: an article has the purpose of engaging the reading; a lab report has a different purpose and starts differently
the vocabulary
the type of language you use will change: formal language for impressing/being respectful, for instance
the tone
in a text that seeks to entertain, you can be sarcasyic. but you can't be sarcastic in a text that is intended to communicate the results of a scientific investigation
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