Group 5

Nita Sofyani Waruwu

Destika T. Telaumbanua

Subject : Advanced Writing

Lecturer : Hidayati Daeli, M.Pd

INSTITUTE OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

FACULTY OF EDUCATION LANGUAGES AND ARTS
ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM
2019
ANECDOTE WRITING
1. Definition of Anecdote Writing
An anecdote is a short story about a real person or event, usually serving
to make the listeners laugh or ponder over a topic. Generally, the anecdote will
relate to the subject matter that the group of people is discussing. Anecdote is
a text which retells funny and unusual incidents in fact or imagination. Its
purpose is to entertain the readers

2. The Function of Anecdote Writing

Its purpose is to entertain the readers, or to tell the past events in order to
amuse the readers or listeners by telling the unusual or amusing incidents.

3. Language Features
 Using Exclamation Sentences : It’s awful, it’s wonderful, etc
 Using Imperative Sentences : Listen to this.
 Using Rethorical Questions : Listen to this ! Do you know what? Can
you imagine? It’s very shameful, isn’t it?
 Using action Verb : Went, wrote, jumped, etc.
 Using Conjunction of Time : Then, afterward, etc.
 Using Past Tense : I found it last night.

4. Generic Structure
a. Abstract
In this section, the writer will begin the writing by introducing
something unique or bizarre in a short way so that it invites the
attention of the listener or reader and makes a curious how it could
happen. Usually - though not absolutely - the writer will start by
asking a question (not always).
b. Orientation
After being able to make the listener or reader curious, then the writer
will start by introducing the setting of place, actors, time of a story.
c. Crisis
 The third part of the generic structure of anecdote text is Crisis. After
the abstract section the author tells a unique thing briefly, in this
section then the author emphasizes the uniqueness and peculiarities
that occur so that the curiosity graph (curious) readers have increased.
d. Incident
In this section the author ends the curiosity of the odd or unique things
in the story by telling how the perpetrators solved the problem or the
anomalies that occur. And in this section usually the reader or listener
gets a tickling or funny problem solving.
e. Coda
Coda is a conclusion that can be drawn in a funny story that usually
will invite laughter of the listener or reader even greater. But this
generic anecdote text part is not always in the anecdote story.

5. The Exmples of Anecdote Text

Snake in The Bath

How would you like to find a snake in your bath? A nasty one too!
We had just moved into a new house, which had been empty for so long that
everything was in a terrible mess. Anna and I decided we would clean the bath
first, so we set to, and turned on the tap.
Suddenly to my horror, a snake’s head appeared in the plug-hole. Then out
slithered the rest of his long thin body. He twisted and turned on the slippery
bottom of the bath, spitting and hissing at us.
For an instant I stood there quite paralyzed. Then I yelled for my husband,
who luckily came running and killed the snake with the handle of a broom.
Anna, who was only three at the time, was quite interested in the whole
business. Indeed I had to pull her out of the way or she’d probably have leant
over the bath to get a better look!
Ever since then I’ve always put the plug in firmly before running the bath
water.
 Bicycle

Ted Robinson has been worried all the week. (Abstract

Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police (Orientation)
Ted wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station
yesterday and now he is not worried anymore. (Crisis)
At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been
found. Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was pick up in a
small village four hundred miles away. It is now being sent to his home by
train. (Reaction)
Ted was most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too, because
he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago
when Ted was a boy of fifteen. (Coda)