Recount Text

Recount Text What is Recount? 1.      Definition of Recount Recount is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the audience. There is no complication among the participants and that differentiates from narrative 2.      Generic Structure of Recount 1. Orientation: Introducing the participants, place and time 2. Events: Describing series of event that happened in the past 3. Reorientation: It is optional. Stating personal...

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Procedure Text

Procedure Text   The definition of procedure text Texts that explain how something works or how to use instruction / operation manuals e.g. how to use the video, the computer, the tape recorder, the photocopier, the fax. Texts that instruct how to do a particular activity e.g. recipes, rules for games, science experiments, road safety rules.  Texts that deal with human behaviour, e.g how to live happily, how to succeed.  The...

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Descriptive Text

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT Descriptive Text The Definition and Purpose of Descriptive Text Descriptive text is a text which says what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing. The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text Descriptive text has structure as below: Identification; identifying the phenomenon to be described. Description; describing the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and characteristics. The Language Feature of Descriptive Text Using attributive and identifying process. Using...

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Narrative Text

Narrative Purpose The basic purpose of narrative is to entertain, to gain and hold a readers' interest. However narratives can also be written to teach or inform, to change attitudes / social opinions eg soap operas and television dramas that are used to raise topical issues. Narratives sequence people/characters in time and place but differ from recounts in that through the sequencing, the stories set up one or more problems, which must eventually find a way to be resolved. Types of narrative There are many types of narrative. They...

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Report Text

In general, report text is one type of text that include into "factual texts" category. This text also have purpose, generic structure commonly. This text is often called a "twin brother" as descriptive text so there's a lot of students are "confused" about how to distinguish between thoose texts. Earlier, with just brief and simple I will explain about the differences between them next time; once again it was only a small difference,...

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