Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Social Function
a. To give information about particular entity by
describing its feature, history and special
characteristic
b. To give information about things by describing
physical attributes, behaviors, uses, etc
Generic Structure
a. Identification or general statements
b. Descriptions
Language feature
a. Focus on specific participant as the main character
b. Use present tense as dominant tenses
c. Use linking verb or relational process
d. Use action verbs or material process and behavioural
process in giving additional description
e. Use mental verb or mental processwhen describing
feelings
f. Use niminal group frequently to describe
g. Use adjective and adverb to add information to nouns
and add information to verb to provide more detailed
description about the topic
h. Use adverbial phrases to add more information about
manner, place, or time
2. DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ( Things And Places )
Definition
Descriptive text is a text that describe the particular
object in relation to things and places
Social Function
a. To give information about particular entity by
describing its features, history, and special
characteristic
b. To give information about things or places
Generic Structure
a. Identification or general statements
b. Descriptions
Language feature
a. Specific participant
b. Use adjective
c. Simple present
d. Action verb
e. Using passive voice
f. Using noun phraseusing technical terms
g. Using general and abstract noun
h. Using conjucntion of time and cause-effect
Definition
Report is a text which concerned with general
categories of things rather than events and happening
and with informing about technical and scientific topic
Social function
a. Classifying report : to organize or describe a field or
topic into a class and subclass hierarchy
b. Compositional report : to organize and describe a
field or topic according to its part ( a part or whole
part)
Generic structure
a. General Classification
b. Description
Language feature
a. Introducing group or general aspect
b. Using conditional logical connection, when, so etc.
4. REPORT TEXT ( Comparative Report And Historical
Report )
Definition
- Comparative is a similarities and differences
between two or more classes or things
- Historical report is an information about the way
things were in relation to a particular historical
periode
Social Function
a. Comparative report: to identify similiarities and
differences between two or more classes or things
b. Historical report: to give an information about the
way things were in relation to a particular historical
periode
Generic Structure
Comparative report
a. General statements: It introduces entities to be
compared
b. Description: It contain the systematic analysis of
similaritie and differences
Historicl report
a. General statements, identifies historical periode or
site
b. Description : Features or characteristics, Activities,
Behaviour, Artefact, Historical significance
Language feature
a. General participant are innitials represented in
simple noun group
b. Relating verb
c. Timeless present tense
d. Attitudinal vacabulary is unusual as the emphasis is
on fact rather on the option