Purpose:
Your purpose is your goal. What are you trying to achieve when writing what you write to who you write? You write to either inform, persuade, or entertain a group of people. If your purpose is not clear, then it falls under one of those three categories by default, and if that’s not what you meant for it to be then you’ve failed at demonstrating a clear reason for addressing the concerns you did.
When you want to persuade a group of people you use either ethos (credibility of a certain claimant), logos (logical reasoning), or pathos (persuasive dialogue), to strengthen your position on a certain issue. To achieve your purpose, you need to understand your audience and what he or she needs for you to estimate if you’ll be able to cater to them. The usage of effective techniques is the key to establishing a clear purpose.
In my technical analysis, where I analyze the insides of the Raspberry Pi 4, I show no emotion in my words. I try my best to have my reader assume a robot wrote this paper out to them, and their audience is going back to a robot. All I used is logic (research), and the credibility of other big names such as Sony, INC. All I needed to do was inform the buyer and the sell about what was in my product.
In addition, in our final project proposal, where we propose a flare system, our intention is to persuade the audience. We use a combination of all three of ethos, pathos, and logos. We took the research of big names such as the PEW Center, to verify logical facts (facts), and then we used our logical and credible information to tie the situation back to the people who were dying from hurricanes every year.
In our instructable, my group and I created a balloon powered car. We centered the language and the audience around the intention of teaching them how to create a balloon powered car themselves.
The purpose isn’t the meat but it’s the arrow guiding the rest of your papers. No professor will ever understand the reason behind writing what you did if there isn’t a clear indication of it in the beginning and a follow through of your proposals, and how it ties back to your purpose.
