Identifying a writer’s purpose, tone, technique and attitude 

Practice for the communicative skill of reading, subskill identifying a writer’s purpose, tone, technique and attitude.

The PTE Academic item types where this subskill is tested are
  • Speaking: Read aloud
  • Writing: Summarize written text
  • Reading: Multiple choice, choose single answer
  • Reading: Multiple choice, choose multiple answers
Click on the link below for more information on the resource Summary of how this subskill is practiced in each resource
Academic Connections 1,
Academic Connections 2,
Academic Connections 3,
Academic Connections 4
recognizing the organization and purpose of a text distinguishing between facts and opinion
Academic Encounters: Life in Society:  reading critically to understand a writer’s views
Creating Meaning: distinguishing fact from opinion, identifying point of view
Inside Reading 1: recognizing fact versus opinion
Inside Reading 2,
Inside Reading 3:
 making inferences
Inside Reading 3:  recognizing comparison and contrast used to support a writer’s views
Inside Reading 4: isolating causes and effects, recognizing point of view
Language Leader Upper Intermediate:

 identifying the writer’s position

New Directions: recognizing writer’s purpose, audience, and tone
New Headway Academic Skills 2: identifying purpose and audience
New Headway Academic Skills 3: understanding the purpose of a paragraph, using paragraph links and discourse markers to understand a writer’s purpose
NorthStar Reading and Writing 4: making inferences about the writer’s viewpoint, identifying a writer’s opinions, identifying different perspectives within one text
NorthStar Reading and Writing 5: identifying a writer’s biases, analyzing an author’s purpose, identifying a writer’s point of view, inferring an author’s attitude and feelings
Select Readings Pre-Intermediate: expressing certainty and uncertainty, recognizing the difference between fact and opinion
Select Readings Upper-Intermediate: distinguishing fact from opinion, inferring, recognizing direct quotations used to support a writer’s views
Strategic Reading 1, Strategic Reading 2, Strategic Reading 3: recognizing tone, point of view, audience, and purpose
Well Read 4: reading critically to distinguish fact and opinion and make inferences