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Reading and All That Jazz: Tuning Up Your Reading, Thinking, and Study Skills, 2/e
Peter Mather, Glendale Community College
Rita McCarthy, Glendale Community College
Determining the Author's Purpose
Chapter Objectives
In this chapter, you will:
1
learn the difference between a general and a specific purpose.
2
learn how to determine whether the author's purpose is to entertain, inform, or persuade.
3
learn how to summarize short articles.
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