Assignment task: Understanding the purpose of your writing can help to ensure clarity and comprehension of your ideas by your respective audience. Whether we are writing an email to a coworker or writing an academic essay, quality written communications occur when there is a clear purpose for the writing. As noted in the "Purposes" reading from Purdue OWL, academic essays are typically written for one of two purposes: 1) to inform or 2) to persuade. As noted in the Academic Essay instructions, I need a persuasive essay. For this discussion, I need to show an initial understanding of the purpose of my essay and include four considerations for purpose when the intention is to influence or persuade an audience. I need to support my claims with citations from the course readings and videos using the appropriate citation style.
Can I get more clarification on what is 1) INFORM AND 2) PERSUADE?
I am not clear in my understanding of the purpose of an academic persuasive essay.
Discussing the four important considerations for the purpose of persuasive writing. Support your claims with citations from the course readings/videos provided below.
I will also have to reflect on the posts from another student
Resources:
Writing Commons. (n.d.). Purpose (rhetoric).
Purdue University Online Writing Lab. (n.d.). Purposes.
Burrows, E., Fowler, A., Fowler, H., & Locklear, A. (n.d.). Composing ourselves and our world.