Students are expected to think critically about a text to learn more about the author’s purpose. Through careful questioning and examination of the techniques employed by an author, such as imagery or structure, students can draw conclusions about the reasons behind the author’s approach.

Students not only examine and understand a variety of elements of author’s craft, such as figurative language, voice, and use of language, but they also learn to think about and apply these techniques to their own writing to achieve specific purposes. For example, students may analyze how use of point of view by an author helps convey a message and then use point of view intentionally when producing their own original writing.

the intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, sentence structures, devices, and language to create an effective written work Author’s craft may vary by genre.

the author’s primary goal in a piece of writing, such as to narrate, to argue, to review, to explain, or to examine

the process of arriving at a judgment of the worth of a text by examining the extent to which its content, form, and style achieve the author’s desired purpose