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Hortatory Exposition Texts - Coggle Diagram
Hortatory Exposition Texts
Definition
a type of English text that
influences the reader to do something or act in a certain way
Generic Structure
Arguments
Recommendation
Thesis
Social Function
to persuade the audience that something should or should not be the case or be done
Language Features
Grammar
Simple present tense
Use of passive sentences
Use of modals and adverb: certainly, surely, etc.
Use of subject pronoun (e.g. I and we)
Use of temporal connectives an causal connectives
Use of evaluative language
Vocabulary
Suggest
Recommend
Should strong
Advantages
However
Reason
Argument
Think
Important
Make
Firstly
Common Expressions
The following are the reasons why…..
Based on the arguments above, …
I think we should …
…is important to …
It could be argued that …