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FUNCTIONAL APPROACHES TO WRITING
FORMATIVE II

Instruction: 1) Get one thesis on a topic of your interest. 2) Work individually. 3) Choose relevant statements to put in every
structure of the genre. 4) Discuss with your partner to make sure that the statements are correct. 5) Type your work and print.

GENRE 1(REPORT)
No Generic Structure Quotation References
Position (Chapter, Page
and Paragraph)
1. General Classification Pragmatics concerns with some fields and politeness
is one of them.



Situmeang, Canra. (2013).
The politeness of 7 years
old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter I; page 1;
paragraph 2.
2. Description of Parts Not found.


3. Description of
Qualities
It is difficult to learn because it involves
understanding not only the language but also the
social and cultural values of the community,
(Brown:1987).

Brown, P. and Levinson S.
(1987) Politeness: some
universals in language
usage. Cambridge:
Cambridge University
Press. In Situmeang,
Canra. (2013). The
politeness of 7 years old
children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter I; page 1;
paragraph 2.
4. Description of Uses it is used by people in their social interactions as
in specific contexts, knowing what to say, how to
say, when to say and how to be with other people.

Situmeang, Canra. (2013).
The politeness of 7 years
old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter I; page 1;
paragraph 2.

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8113612087
B4-LTBI

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GENRE 2 (ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION)
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Position (Chapter, Page
and Paragraph)
1. Thesis During this stage (concrete operation stage), logical,
rational, thought processes and the ability to reason
deductively and inductively developed.


Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness
of 7 years old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter II; page 34,
paragraph 1
2. Argument 1 Children in this stage are able to think more objectively,
are willing to listen to others and will selectively use
questioning to find answers to unknown.


Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness
of 7 years old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter II; page 34,
paragraph 1
3. Argument 2 they can consider two premises and draw a logical
conclusion from them, (Elkind, 1984).




Elkind. (2004) in
Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness
of 7 years old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter II; page 34,
paragraph 1
4. Argument 3 They are also intellectually able to understand cause and
effect in a concrete way.



Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness
of 7 years old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter II; page 34,
paragraph 3
5. Reiteration Not Found.






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GENRE 3 (PROCEDURE)
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Position (Chapter, Page
and Paragraph)
1. Goal The technique of data collection.




Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness
of 7 years old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter III; page 44;
paragraph 2
2. Materials The researcher used some tools in collecting the data
such as pen and book when taking note.




Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness
of 7 years old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter III; page 44;
paragraph 1
3. Steps In collecting the data, the researcher used some steps.
The steps were: 1) observing the subjects both inside
and outside the class, 2) taking notes of the utterances
produced by the subjects by using a pen and a book, 3)
then, the data which were in Indonesian would be
translated into English, 4) the researcher only took the
data needed based on research problems and the data
which were not related to politeness strategies would be
reduced, it was called as data reduction (Miles and
Huberman, 1984:21), 5) finally, the researcher analyzed
the data.





Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness
of 7 years old children.
UNIMED:Medan.

Miles and Huberman.
(1984).
Chapter III; page 45;
paragraph 2.
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GENRE 4 (DESCRIPTIVE)
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Position (Chapter, Page
and Paragraph)
1. Identification Politeness strategies are ways to convey the
utterances as polite as possible.


Situmeang, Canra. (2013).
The politeness of 7 years old
children. UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter I; page 2;
paragraph 2
2. Description of parts Brown and Levinson divided politeness
strategies into two namely 1) bald-on-record
strategy and 2) off-record strategy.




Brown, P. and Levinson S.
(1987) Politeness: some
universals in language
usage. Cambridge:
Cambridge University
Press. In Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness of 7
years old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter I; page 2;
paragraph 2
3. Description of qualities Politeness strategies are important in avoiding
or minimizing the threat of addressees face.



Situmeang, Canra. (2013).
The politeness of 7 years old
children. UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter I; page 2;
paragraph 2
4. Description of
characteristics
It also relates to the speakers and hearers age,
status and power.





Situmeang, Canra. (2013).
The politeness of 7 years old
children. UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter I; page 2;
paragraph 2


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GENRE 5 (HORTATORY EXPOSITION)
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Position (Chapter, Page
and Paragraph)
1. Thesis The children of seven years old sometimes are not
able to use politeness strategy in their
communication naturally




Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness
of 7 years old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter I; page 6;
paragraph 2
2. Argument Not found.






3. Argument Not found.






4. Recommendation they should be taught how to use it properly as
their psychosocial still also develops





Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness
of 7 years old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter I; page 6;
paragraph 2

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B4-LTBI

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GENRE 6 (EXPLANATION)
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Position (Chapter,
Page and Paragraph)
1. General Statement Pinter (2006:617) also classified
stages of children cognitive
development into four stages,as
follows.
Pinter, A. (2006). Teaching young
language learners. Oxford: Oxford
University Press in Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness of 7 years old
children. UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter II; page 28;
paragraph 1
2. Explanation Sensori motor stage (from birth to two
years of age). This stage is
characterized by the interaction of a
child with the environment.

Pinter, A. (2006). Teaching young
language learners. Oxford: Oxford
University Press in Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness of 7 years old
children. UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter II; page 28;
paragraph 2
3. Explanation Pre-operational stage (from two to
seven years of age). In this stage
children are more dependent on
perception and start to be more
capable of logical thinking.
Pinter, A. (2006). Teaching young
language learners. Oxford: Oxford
University Press in Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness of 7 years old
children. UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter II; page 28;
paragraph 3
4. Explanation Concrete operational stage (from
seven to eleven years of age). When
children become 7 year old their
thinking begins to resemble, logical,
and adult-like thinking (Pinter,
2006:7).
Pinter, A. (2006). Teaching young
language learners. Oxford: Oxford
University Press in Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness of 7 years old
children. UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter II; page 28;
paragraph 4
5 Explanation Formal operation stage (from eleven
year onwards). Children are able to
think in terms that are more abstract.


Pinter, A. (2006). Teaching young
language learners. Oxford: Oxford
University Press in Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness of 7 years old
children. UNIMED:Medan.

Chapter II; page 28;
paragraph 5
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GENRE 7 (DISCUSSION)
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1. Issue Not found.






2. Arguments for By studying language on the basis of pragmatics, we
can get a big advantage, we can talk about peoples
intended meanings, their assumptions, their goals and
the kinds of actions (request, refusal, agreement,
disagreement, thinking, apologizing, etc.) when they
are speaking.

Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness
of 7 years old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter I; page 11;
paragraph 2
3. Arguments against On the other hand, the disadvantage is that these
human concepts are difficult to analyze in a consistent
and objective way.




Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness
of 7 years old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter I; page 11;
paragraph 2
4. Conclusion Not found.






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8113612087
B4-LTBI

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GENRE 8 (REVIEW)
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and Paragraph)
1. Orientation Not found.






2. Interpretive Recount This research was aimed at describing and
determining the positive politeness used in Harry and
the Half-Blood Prince.



Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness of
7 years old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter II; page 38;
paragraph 3
3. Evaluation Kartikas dealed only with the positive politeness
strategies used in Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince
movie without analyzed more detail about the process
and the reasons of using the strategy.




Situmeang, Canra.
(2013). The politeness of
7 years old children.
UNIMED:Medan.
Chapter II; page 39;
paragraph 1
4. Evaluative
Summation
Not found.