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On the surface, it's deceptively simple. Hypothetically, one determines the author's purpose and then one writes it down. In practice, the first step gives most people trouble, often including the author in question. Anything that asks for the author's purpose in writing something will be subject to a wide variety of responses, even if there is a single "accepted" purpose. In order to determine a reasonable purpose, one must examine the theme of the work as well as the context in which it was written. Most importantly, one must read the work and consider what the author meant to say and how (s)he went about saying it. Rhetoric and clearly stated ideas tend to be overlooked; this is disadvantageous to the analysis of purpose.

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