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Reading and All That Jazz book cover
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.