There are many different purposes of writing and they all are important in their own way. I first want to tell you a little bit about the author's purpose. The author's purpose is to either inform, persuade, inform, or entertain(the PIE method) and sometimes even to express. Usually when a writer writes something they have a purpose for writing it though sometimes the author may have some motivations that they don't yet know about hat they will know about a little later. A writer may have mixed or eve contradictory purposes/motivations for writing. For example a student may write an essay to please the teacher or amuse the other students. Generally people write because they are required to(like an essay for school or some things for work) or they could have their own reasons for writing or they are writing out of their own free will just for the fun of it. Self-writing, which is kind of like writing from your own free will can have many different reasons. Jakobson's model is a good way to classify the purposes of writing and the parts of it are Writer, Reader, Context, Message, Contact, and Code. Writer is expressive purposes and the writer may write to just express their feelings, attitudes, ideas, etc.. This type of writing doesn't take the reader into consideration; it focuses on the writer's feelings, experience, and needs. It may take the form of poetry, journals, letters, and most importantly-free writing. A lot of times, a writer will do expressive writing and then be disappointed when readers don't respond to it. Reader is conative purposes and the purpose of conative writing is to affect the reader. Persuasive writing is conative along with writing intended to entertain the reader. Writing whose purpose is to arouse the reader's feelings is conative. Conative writing could take about any form as long as its intention is to persuade the reader or affect them emotionally. Context is informative purposes and informative writing refers to something that is external to the writing itself and has the purpose of informing the reader. An instance that this is presented is that this page is informative, along with the other components of this map. In our times, informative writing is usually prose, though in earlier periods poetry was used for informative purposes. Message has poetic purposes and poetic (literary/stylistic) purposes focus on the message itself and on its language, the way the elements of language are used, the structure and pattern on the levels of both the phrase and the overall composition. Poetic writing can be in prose and in verse. Fiction has poetic purposes. Anytime someone writes with an emphasis on the way the language is used, they have a poetic purpose. Contact is phatic purposes(phatic means relating to language used for regular social purposes) and Phatic language (along with nonverbal communication) establishes and maintains contacts
between speakers or between the writer and the reader. In example, for speaking, we may greet someone by saying, "Howya doin?" or Hozit goin?" These questions are not requests for information. They are used to establish and maintain friendly contact. Phatic purposes are not very significant in most writing and the use of greetings and closings in letters is an example of a phatic purpose in writing. Code is metalinguistic purposes(metalinguistic means the study of dialogue relationships between units of speech communication) and comments on a piece of writing are metalinguistic. For instance if a student attaches a note to an essay explaining why the essay is late, the note is metalinguistic in relation to the essay. The author's preface to a book is another good example of a metalinguistic purpose in writing. I just have one piece of advice for you-when you write define your purpose of writing.
between speakers or between the writer and the reader. In example, for speaking, we may greet someone by saying, "Howya doin?" or Hozit goin?" These questions are not requests for information. They are used to establish and maintain friendly contact. Phatic purposes are not very significant in most writing and the use of greetings and closings in letters is an example of a phatic purpose in writing. Code is metalinguistic purposes(metalinguistic means the study of dialogue relationships between units of speech communication) and comments on a piece of writing are metalinguistic. For instance if a student attaches a note to an essay explaining why the essay is late, the note is metalinguistic in relation to the essay. The author's preface to a book is another good example of a metalinguistic purpose in writing. I just have one piece of advice for you-when you write define your purpose of writing.