Purpose and reliability
Purpose and reliability
A text's purpose is what its writer wants to achieve. Common purposes include informing, explaining, instructing, persuading, entertaining and expressing personal feelings.
Step-by-step lessons on WJEC GCSE English Language 5.2.7 Purpose and reliability of texts. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Start with the reading and comprehension skills for description, narration and exposition texts before tackling the more evaluation-heavy argumentation and persuasion unit, since technical accuracy in writing carries half the marks in each written unit.