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    This document provides an overview of different text types including their social purposes, typical structures, and grammatical features. It discusses narratives, instructions, recounts, information reports, explanations, and arguments. For each text type, it outlines their typical social purpose, structure including common elements like orientation, events, and resolution, and grammatical features commonly used.

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    This document provides an overview of different text types including their social purposes, typical structures, and grammatical features. It discusses narratives, instructions, recounts, information reports, explanations, and arguments. For each text type, it outlines their typical social purpose, structure including common elements like orientation, events, and resolution, and grammatical features commonly used.

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    Text Type Narrative

    Social Purpose/s to entertain and/or educate to provide clear directions to help the reader perform a set of specific actions to complete a specific outcome to retell an event or series of events and/or to reflect -

    Typical Structure Orientation Complication/Series of Events Resolution (optional) -

    Typical Grammatical Features Past tense Emotive Language Specific/Proper noun types Time sequences Common Language use of IMPERATIVE (commands) Action verbs ADVERBIALS of time, manner, place, reason etc Verbs in past tense Adverbials of TIME Action verbs Relational (linking) verbs Action verbs Factual adjectives Adjectival phrases Technical terminology General nouns Nominalisation Personal Pronouns Relational verbs Use of noun groups Action verbs Technical terminology Exclusion of personal pronouns

    Instructional Text

    Recount

    Title List of materials/ingredients - Series of steps - Additional Suggestions - Visual aides Orientation Events Stage Reorientation (optional)

    Information Report

    to classify and describe a phenomenon or a particular class of things

    Classification Stage Description Stage

    Explanation

    to describe the processes whereby phenomena works/why it works

    Title Phenomenon Identification Explanation Sequence Final Paragraph

    Argument

    to express an opinion/point of view supported by evidence to support the case being made

    Introduction/Thesis Stage Supporting Arguments Examples/Elaboration of Points Reiteration/Conclusion

    Connectives of time, causal, Conjunctions additive, temporal Modality degree of certainty Nominalisation Auxiliary verbs (tense)

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