Purpose

Purpose is the reason for writing: What the writer seeks to accomplish.

Resources:

Writing@CSU

"Writing Guides: Understanding Purpose." <http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/processes/purpose/>.

Links to Definition/Types/Strategies/Audience and relationships to other elements of writing.

Why write?

"Writing with a Sense of Purpose"

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/composition/purpose.htm

The Writer's Motivation

"Purposes in Writing"

http://web.mst.edu/~gdoty/classes/concepts-practices/purposes.html

Writing to Persuade

An interactive map that can be printed

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/persuasion_map/