REPORT TEXT

Report text adalah teks yang menunjukkan informasi tentang sesuatu pada umumnya
dan apa adanya. Report text ini merupakan hasil dari observasi penelitian dan analisa
sistematis.
Karena menunjukkan sebuah hasil penelitian ilmiah, maka report text ini biasanya
merupakan hal seputar hal-hal ilmiah di sekitar kita, misalnya fenomena alam,
tata-surya, planet, hewan, tanaman, kehidupan sosial manusia, negara, budaya,
transportasi dan lain sebagainya.

Generic Structure of Report Text

Report text terdiri dari dua susunan sistematis yaitu:

1.General Classification
Tahap awal ini merupakan pernyataan mengenai apa yang sedang dibahas secara
umum.
General classification terdapat pada paragraf pertama. Dalam paragraf tersebut akan
membahas mengenai aspek umum terkait objek yang akan ditulis. Misalnya tumbuhan,
hewan, tempat, benda, dan lain-lain. Contoh:

“Television, or TV, is one of humanity’s most important means of communication. It

brings pictures and sounds from around the world into millions of homes.”

2.Description
Tahap kedua ini merupakan sebuah inti yang menjelaskan detail dari general
classification, bagian per bagian.
Description akan terdapat pada paragraf kedua hingga selesai. Di dalamnya terdapat
pembahasan yang akan lebih detail dan akan terdapat beberapa bagian. Misalnya
karaktersitik dari seekor hewan, kemudian habitatnya, lalu makanannya dan lain-lain.
Seperti contoh berikut:

“People, with a television set in their houses, can sit and watch the president makes a
speech or visits a foreign country. They can see a war being fought. Through television,
viewers at home can see and learn about people, places, and things in a away lands.
Perhatikan penjelasan singkat disini:

Language Feature of Report Text

Example/Contoh:

Komodo

Do you know what is the largest lizard? This lizard is called komodo. It lives in the scrub
and woodland of a few Indonesian islands.

The Komodo dragon is the world’s heaviest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or more. The
largest Komodo ever measured was more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighed 366
pounds (166 kg) but the average size of Komodo in the wild is about 8 feet (2.5 meters)
long and 200 pounds (91 kg).

Komodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful limbs, and a muscular tail. They
use their keen sense of smell to locate decaying animal remains from several miles away.
They also hunt other lizards as well as large mammals and are sometimes cannibalistic.

The Komodo dragon’s teeth are almost completely covered by its gums. When it feeds,
the gums bleed, creating an ideal culture for virulent bacteria. The bacteria that live in
the Komodo dragon’s saliva cause septicemia, or blood poisoning, in its victims. A
dragon will bite its prey, then follow it until the animal is too weak to carry on.

This lizard species is threatened by hunting, loss of prey species, and habitat loss.