About Lesson
In many writing situations, part of your challenge will be determining your purpose or your reason for writing. The wording of an assignment may suggest its purpose. If no guidelines are given, you may need to ask yourself, “Why am I communicating with my readers?” or “What do I want to accomplish?”
Most writers often have the following purposes when writing:
- to inform
- to explain
- to summarise
- to recommend
- to evaluate
- to persuade
- to analyse
- to synthesise
- to propose
- to call readers to action
- to change attitudes
- to express feelings