ACT Preparation / Unit 5 ACT 0402 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Purpose and Audience
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The idea
The audience is the person or group a writer means to reach; the purpose is what that audience should think, feel or do.
In practice
A memo to parents about a field trip informs them; a letter to the city council asks it to act.
Where people slip
What the audience needs decides what a passage includes.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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