Understanding Report Text

Report text is a type of text in English grammar that describes in detail an object such as a physical
or non-physical description of the various scientific facts of the object.
Report text is included in the type of descriptive text which aims to provide information about an
object from the report text itself. Although included in descriptive texts, report texts tend to lead to
scientific facts and are more general than descriptive texts.
For example, if the author wants to describe about oranges. In descriptive text, the writer must refer
to certain types of oranges with special characteristics. While in the report text, the author must
provide general information such as its function and use.

General Structure Report Text

report text
The general structure (general structure) of the report text is the same as that of the descriptive
text. The following is the general structure of the report text.

1. General Classification
This section contains general statements that explain the object description of the report text
including the subject of the report, description, and clarification.

2. Description
The description section provides an overview of the phenomenon or situation that occurs, both its
parts, characteristics, habits or behavior.

The following characteristics can be seen from the report text.

Contains scientific facts

Title text looks more generic
Using simple present tenses

Contoh Report Text

“Blue Whale“

The blue whale is not only the biggest whale living today; the blue whale is the biggest creature ever
to have lived on Earth. They are mind-bogglingly gigantic; it is much larger than any of the
dinosaurs. This one and the other ocean giants live their whole lives in seawater.
Blue whales commonly reach the colossal length of 29m, that’s roughly as long as three London red
double-decker buses parked end to end. They in the Southern Hemisphere are generally larger than
those in the Northern Hemisphere and female blues are larger than males.

The longest blue whale on record is a female measured at a South Georgia whaling station in the
South Atlantic (1909); she was 33.58m. The heaviest blue whale was also a female hunted in the
Southern Ocean, Antarctica, on 20 March 1947. She tipped the scales at 190 tonnes which is
equivalent to about 30 elephants or 2500 people.

In conlusion, Blue whales are now extremely rare due to uncontrolled commercial whaling. It makes
some populations could be endangered to the point of extinction.