From The Journal

"Purpose is the goal or aim of a piece of writing: to express oneself, to provide information, to persuade, or to create a literary work. There are four purposes writers use for writing. When someone communicates ideas in writing, they usually do so to express themselves, inform their reader, to persuade a reader or to create a literary work."

State University of New York at New Paltz. (2014). *Purpose handout*. Retrieved from https://sites.newpaltz.edu/owrc/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2014/01/Purpose-Handout.pdf