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 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
5. Procedure - Describe how to make or to
do something step by step
- Consists of a set of
instructions or directions to
show steps or stages.
Generic Structure Language Features
1. Identification (definition and - Use simple present tense or
classification) simple past tense if it is
2. Description extinct
- Use attributive verbs (is, am,
are, was, were, has, have,
had).
- Use adjectives
- Vocabulary related to the
topic
1. General classification - Use simple present tense or
(what phenomenon under discussion simple past tense if it is
is) extinct
2. Description - Use action verbs.
(what the phenomenon under - Use adjectives.
discussion is like in term of parts (and
their functions), qualities, habits /
behaviours.)
1. Orientation - Use Simple Past Tense.
- Inroduction that gives background - Use material processes.
info about who, what, where, when - Focus on specific
2. Series of events participants.
- Retell the events in the order in - Focus on temporal
which they happened. sequences of conjunctions.
- Words that show the order of
events: first, second, next, then,
etc.
3. Re-orientation (not always necessary)
- A concluding paragraph that may
include personnal comments.
1. Orientation - Use Simple Past Tense.
- Gives setting of the story: who, - Use direct sentences.
what, where, when. - Use pecific adverb of time:
- Tells the audiences about who is in longa time ago, once upon a
the story, when the story is taking time, in a far away land, in a
place and where the action is dense forest, etc.
happened.
- Situasi kejadian peristiwa yang
mendorong terjadinya komplikasi.
2. Complication
- A chain of events that influences
what will happen in the story.
- The characters face problems.
- The characters attempt to solve the
problems.
3. Resolution
- The characters sold out the
complication.
- Containing solving problems.
4. Moral Value / Coda (not always
necessary)
- Can be in the form of comment
1. Aim / goal - Use Simple Present Tense
- Introductory statement that gives especially imperative
the aim / goal sentences.
- Usually it is the tittle of the text. - Use action verbs (material
2. Materials and equipments processes)
3. Steps or stages - Use temporal sequences of
- Sequences of steps in the order conjunctions (first, second,
they need to be done. next, then, finalli, etc.)