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here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by women's baseball [Man watches women's baseball game]

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league they were truly a league of their own that sounds like a great movie idea

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yeah, we'll call our lawyer...okay let's read the text on the screen right there..

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[mumbling]

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and here's our question which of the answers best captures the author's

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purpose in writing this text and here are your potential answers..well we don't want

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to see you strike out so we'll give you a hint the author's presenting lots of [Stack of books fall on boy]

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facts and history so which purpose does that help the most since we're trying to

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figure out which answer best captures the author's purpose let's check them

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all out certain with A to inform well as the hint mentioned the author presented

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lots of facts and history that's great if you want to inform the reader because

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now they know a bunch of facts and bits of history always a fun party trick so [groups of people walk away]

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A is a pretty good fit but let's see if we can do better

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how about B to entertain well although facts and history are great for

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informing they're not fantastic at entertaining which you probably know

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after you tried that party trick we talked about and then yeah sorry about [Boy being filmed]

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that if the text had jokes or a spooky surprise ending or something we think

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the author was trying to entertain us with well I'd be fine but as it is B [Ghost characters appear]

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looks like a bad fit what about C or D to persuade or dissuade well, persuasion

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and dissuasion are kind of opposites, they both function the same way both try to

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convince the reader of something and make a pitch at the reader will buy like [Boy reading a book]

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in advertising or when your parents argue that early bedtimes are super fun

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well again though our pile of facts on history doesn't seem to be making a

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pitch so C and D are out.. that leaves us with A the author wants to inform the

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reader .. Just like in countless rom-coms the original choice that you [Man and woman walk past each other]

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overlooked first time around turned out to be the right choice all along now if

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you'd excuse us we got to start working on this whole league of their own idea

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and we don't know why but Tom Hanks feels like an excellent choice [Tom Hanks standing on a baseball field]

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