THE GENRE OF TEXT

16 Mei 2010

Naratif

 Social function : amuse entertain the readers with actual or imaginary experince in difference ways.naratives always deal with some problems which lead to the climax and then turn intro a solution to the problem.
 Text organization
 Orientation (who were ivoled the story when and were)
 Complication (a problem arises and followed by other problem)
 Resolution (provide solution to the problem)
 Language features
 The use of noun phrases (a beautiful princes a huge temple)
 The use of connectives (first ,before that, then, finally)
 The use of adverbaial phrases of time and place (in the garden, two days a go)
 The use of simple pastense (he walked a way from the village)
 The use of action verb (walk, sleep, wake up)
 The use of saying verb (say, tell, ask)
 The use of thinking verb, feeling verb, verb of senses (the velt hungry, she though she was clever she smelt something burning)

Spoof

 Social function : tell event with a homerouse twist
 Text organization
Personal recounts
 Orientation (who were involved in the story, when ,and were)
 Events(tell what happened in a chronological order)
 Twist (provide the funnies part of the story)
 Language features
 The use of actions verb (walked, laughed run away)
 The use of connectives (first, then, finally)
 The use of adverbal phrases of time and place (in the garden two days ago)
 The use of simple past tense (he walked away from village)





Recounts

 Social function: tell the readers what happened in the past through a sequence of events
 Text organization
Personal recounts
 Orientation (who were involved in the story when and were)
 Event (tell what happned in a chronological order)
 Evalution (comments of the writer/speak or due to the experience )
 Re-orientation (optional the conclusion on the experience)
 Orientation (who where involved in the story, when and were)
 Event (tell what happened in a chronological order)
 Language features
 The use of nouns and pronouns (david, we, his)
 The use action verb (we, went, spent, plared)
 The use of past tense (we, went, for a trip to the zoo)
 The use of time conjungtions (and, but, after, finnal)
 The use of adverb and adverb of phrases (in my house, two days ago, slowly cheer fuly)
 Adjectife (beautiful,sunny)

Procedure

 Social function : help use do a task or make something.they can be a set of instructions or direction
 Text organization
 Goal (the final purpose doing the intructions)
 Materials (ingredients, utensil, equipment, to do the instruction)
 Steps (a set of instruction to achieve the final purpose)
 Language features
 The use of imperatives (cut, down, mix)
 The use of action verb (turn ,put, mix)
 The use of connectives (first ,then, finally)
 The use of adverbial phrases (for five minutes, 2 centimeters from the top)





News item

 Social function : inform readers, listeners, or viewers about events of the the day which are considered news worty or important
 Text organization
 News worty events (tells the event in summary form)
 background events (elaborate what happened tell what caused the incident)
 sources (coments by participants, whitnes autorities and experts involved the events)
 Language features
 Informasion the use of hesdlines the use of action verb (hit, attact, curb)
 The use of saying verb (sayid added, claimed)
 The use of passive sentences (aceh was hit by a Tsunami in 2004)
 The use of adverb in passive sentences(the victims were badly injured)

Report

 Social function : describe the way things are (for example : a man made thing animals, plants).the things must a representative of their class
 Text organization
 General clasificasion
 Introduces the topic of the report such as : (the class and the sub class)
 Identification (tell the shape /form part, behaviour, habitat, way of survival)
 Language features
 The use of general nouns (comodos, computer, orchids)
 The use of relating verb (is, are, has)
 The use of present tense (comodo dragon usually weigh more than 160 kg)
 The use of behavioural verb (snakes often sun be the in the sun)
 The use of technical terms (water contains oxygen and hydrogen)
 Topic sentences to develop a paragraph






Description

 Social function
 A description is a piece of writing that lists the characteristic of a person piece or thing it describes living and nonliving thing suchas animals, fowns, building
 To describe particular person piece or thing
 Text organization
 Identificasion : introduces who, where, or what is being described
 Description : describes the characteristic,part and qualitinof the subject being described
 Language feature
 Pronouns (it, your, you)
 Noun phrases (polar, bear, white coates, milk protein)
 Adjectife (important, beautiful, excellent)
 Linking verbs
 Present tense
 Attribute (he, has and had)

Analitycal Exposition

 Social function :
 To persuade by presenting arigliments
 To analyce or explaint “how” and “why”
 Text organization
 Thesis
 Arguments
 reiteration
 Language features
 Emotive words (atarmed, worried)
 Word that quality statements(usual, probably)
 Word that link arguments (firstly however, on the order band there fore)
 The use of the present tense
 The use of compound and complex sentences






Hortatory exposition

 Social function : to persuade the readers or listeners the somethings should or should not be the case
 Text organization
 Thesis
 Arguments
 Recommendations
 Language features
 The use of emotive words (alurmed, worried)
 The use of words that quality statements (usual probably)
 The use of words what link arguments (firstly, however, on the other band, there for)
 The use of present tense
 The use of compound and complex sentences
 The use of modal and verb (can, may, certainly, get, stop)
 The use of subjective options using pronouns (and, i, we)