Read each prompt to determine a purpose and an audience for writing. Then select the writing task that satisfies the purpose and audience. A. Choose... While walking your dog, you find a wallet containing several hundred dollars. You want to create a piece of writing that will find the owner.
B. Choose... As a water-quality volunteer in your community, you want to create a piece of writing that will list and describe the steps new volunteers should follow to take and test water samples.
C. Choose... You are invited to attend opening night of a new science fiction movie. After viewing the film, you want to publish a review of the movie.
D. Choose... Early one evening, you witness a cloud of glowing insects in your garden. You observe quietly, and then decide to research the insects and share your results.
E. Choose... You return from a family vacation to a beach. Your experience was fantastic, and you want to share news and photographs of your trip with your friends.

Here are the choices.
1. email
2. poster
3. blog post
4. short story
5. informative report