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