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ELA Drills, Advanced: Point of View 1. Which of the answers best captures the author's purpose in writing this text?

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00:04

here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by women's baseball [Man watches women's baseball game]

00:07

league they were truly a league of their own that sounds like a great movie idea

00:12

yeah, we'll call our lawyer...okay let's read the text on the screen right there..

00:16

[mumbling]

00:27

and here's our question which of the answers best captures the author's

00:31

purpose in writing this text and here are your potential answers..well we don't want

00:39

to see you strike out so we'll give you a hint the author's presenting lots of [Stack of books fall on boy]

00:43

facts and history so which purpose does that help the most since we're trying to

00:48

figure out which answer best captures the author's purpose let's check them

00:51

all out certain with A to inform well as the hint mentioned the author presented

00:56

lots of facts and history that's great if you want to inform the reader because

01:00

now they know a bunch of facts and bits of history always a fun party trick so [groups of people walk away]

01:05

A is a pretty good fit but let's see if we can do better

01:07

how about B to entertain well although facts and history are great for

01:11

informing they're not fantastic at entertaining which you probably know

01:15

after you tried that party trick we talked about and then yeah sorry about [Boy being filmed]

01:18

that if the text had jokes or a spooky surprise ending or something we think

01:22

the author was trying to entertain us with well I'd be fine but as it is B [Ghost characters appear]

01:26

looks like a bad fit what about C or D to persuade or dissuade well, persuasion

01:31

and dissuasion are kind of opposites, they both function the same way both try to

01:35

convince the reader of something and make a pitch at the reader will buy like [Boy reading a book]

01:38

in advertising or when your parents argue that early bedtimes are super fun

01:42

well again though our pile of facts on history doesn't seem to be making a

01:46

pitch so C and D are out.. that leaves us with A the author wants to inform the

01:51

reader .. Just like in countless rom-coms the original choice that you [Man and woman walk past each other]

01:55

overlooked first time around turned out to be the right choice all along now if

01:58

you'd excuse us we got to start working on this whole league of their own idea

02:01

and we don't know why but Tom Hanks feels like an excellent choice [Tom Hanks standing on a baseball field]

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