SHORT ESSAY TEXT RESUME
Genre of
No. Function
Text
1. Descriptive - Describe what things are as
they are/what things do as
they do.
- Describe something in details
- Describe what things are as
the shape, features, sizes,
habits, behaviours, qualities.
- Hubungan antara bagian dan
keseluruhan.
2. Report - Give general classification and
description about something
- Range of natural, man-made,
social phenomenon in our
environtment
- Penjabaran hasil observasi
- Klasifikasi jenis sesuatu
bedasarkan kriteria tertentu.
- Pengelompokan berbagai hal
ke dalam jenis-jenis sesuai ciri-
ciri masing-masing
- Hubungan hirarkis sebuah
kelas dan anggotanya.
3. Recount - Retell past events, usually in a. Orientation
the order in which they
happened.
- To give audiences a
description of what occured
and when it occured
4. Narrative - Entertain the readers, give
amusements (it can be factual
or imaginer. It can be a myth,
a legend, a fabel, a folklore or
a folktale).
- Educate or teach readers by
means of moral value
Generic Structure Language Features
a. Identification (definition and - Use simple present tense or
classification) simple past tense if it is
b. Description extinct
- Use attributive verbs (is, am,
are, was, were).
- Use adjectives
a. General classification (what - Use simple present tense or
phenomenon under simple past tense if it is
discussion is) extinct
b. Description (what the - Use action verbs.
phenomenon under
discussion is like in term of
parts (and their functions),
qualities, habits/behaviours.)
- Use Simple Past Tense.
- Inroduction that gives - Use material processes.
background info about who, - Focus on specific participants.
what, where, when - Focus on temporal sequences
b. Series of events of conjunctions.
- Retell the events in the
order in which they
happened.
- Words that show the order
of events: first, second,
next, then, etc.
c. Re-orientation (not always
necessary)
- A concluding paragraph
that may include personnal
comments.
a. Orientation - Use Simple Past Tense.
- Gives setting of the story: - Use direct sentences.
who, what, where, when. - Use pecific adverb of time:
- Tells the audiences about longa time ago, once upon a
who is in the story, when time, in a far away land, in a
the story is taking place and dense forest, etc.
where the action is
happened.
- Situasi kejadian peristiwa
yang mendorong terjadinya
komplikasi.
b. Complication
- A chain of events that
influences what will happen
in the story.
- The characters face
problems.
- The characters attempt to
solve the problems.
c. Resolution
- The characters sold out the
complication.
- Containing solving
problems.
d. Moral Value / Coda (not
always necessary)
- Can be in the form of
comment
5. Procedure - Describe how to make or to a. Aim / goal
do something step by step - Introductory statement that
- Consists of a set of gives the aim / goal
instructions or directions to - Usually it is the tittle of the
show steps or stages. text.
b. Materials and equipments
c. Steps or stages
- Sequences of steps in the
order they need ti be done.
- Use Simple Past Tense
especially imperative
sentences.
- Use action verbs (material
processes)
- Use temporal sequences of
conjunctions (first, second,
next, then, finalli, etc.)