Types of Text Taught in Junior and Senior High School in Indonesia
Report Text
Descriptive Text
Types
Organization Structure
Linguistic Features Descriptive
Pupose
Descriptive can also be a descriptive report
Give information about something or someone
The goal is to provide information about something
General statement
Description
Organization structure of descriptive report = descriptive text
also to identify and describe a number of characteristics of an object or phenomenon
States the general category of what he wants to tell
The author describes several aspects of the topic
General statement
Description
to give general information about what is described
to shows what is described
to introduce the topic
give information about topic then grouped from general-specific
Usually using present tense
Using descriptive language
Using linking verbs. ex: is, are, has
Using language to define, classify, etc
Using verb action
may have many technical words according to what is described
Use a formal or objective writing style
Using specific participants
ex: my cat
using generalized participant
ex: cats
News
Organization structure
Purpose
Linguistics features
Definition
Text that presents information clearly and concisely
To document, compile and record factual information about the topic
Research Report
at school: specific report: animals, plants, inanimate objects
Weather
Opening general statement / general classification
Facts about some of the aspects reported
Usually does not contain ending
Usually enter table, diagram, picture, and illustration to explain text
Described are general
Using action verb to describe the behavior something or animals
Using linking verbs
"Timeless" present tense
Descriptive language but factual and precise, not imaginative
It may contain technical words
Using language to define, classify, etc
Written by formal or objective style
Ex: noun or people (volcanoes, the royal family)
Ex: is, are, has, have, belongs to)
Ex: are, exist, grow)
To convey: color, shape, size (What they look like)
To convey: body, parts, components (What they have)
The use of pronouns (I, We and the author's opinion) is not used