Paragraph To Explain

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Agnes Febrianti Putri (186310751)
Fitri Heldayeti (186310099)
Miftahul Fitria (186311003)
Sania Rahmah Burmayana (186310409)
WHAT IS
DEFINITION OF
EXPLANATION
TEXT?
 DEFINITION

An Explanation Text is a NON-

FICTION text which
DESCRIBES HOW or WHY
things happen.
 PURPOSE

An explanation is written to
explain how and why something
in the world happens.
It is about actions rather than
about things. Explanations play
a valuable role in building and
storing our knowledge.
Technical and scientific writing
are often expressed in this
form.
 Characteristic of
Explanations
• An Explanation text usually
comes from the author's
question

• There are phenomenon, and

focus of the material
 Structure Of
Explanation Texts
• Title
Explanations have a title that prepares and leads the reader to the
text.
• General statement
that introduces or identifies the scientific or technical phenomenon.
•Sequenced statement
The logically sequenced paragraphs explain why or how something
happens rather than focusing on an object.The explanation sequence
should consist of a series of happenings, actions, causes or processes
that are the focus of the text type.
• Concluding paragraph
An optional concluding statement can tie up the explanation
• Labelled diagrams
Labelled diagrams and flow charts can be used to clarify information
or to add additional information not included in the explanation.
Particularly in scientific texts accurate diagrams
 Language Features
• Use of present tense.
• Use of complex noun groups to
• Use of adverbial phrases
build detailed descriptions
of time and place to tell
e.g.The enormous expanse of arid
where and when actions
land;The rampaging, threatening
occurred
river.
e.g. It is to be found in North
• Use of abstract nouns
America.
e.g. heat, earthquakes.
• Use of connectives to link
• Use of pronouns for words
time sequences in a cause
already introduced in the text.
and effect sequence
• Usually the subject is not
e.g. first, then, after, finally,
human, e.g. mountains, rain, video.
so, as a consequence.
• Use of sentences that have a
• Use of passive voice and
clear subject and verb
nominalisation to
agreement.
link the events through
• Use of action verbs to explain
cause and effect.
cause,
e.g. from, started from.
• Use of time conjunctions,
e.g. when, as, to sequence and link events and to keep the
text flowing. Placing of these conjunctions first in the
sentence in order to focus the reader’s attention, e.g.
When he reached the
summit of the mountain, he felt exhilarated.
• Use of technical terms or word chains about a subject
e.g. a spider falls into the family of arachnids.
 How Earthquakes Happen
Earthquake is one of the most destroying natural
disasters. Unluckily it often happens in several regions.
Recently a horrible earthquake has shaken West Sumatra.
It has brought great damages. Why did it occur? Do you
know how an earthquake happens?
Earthquakes are usually caused when rock
underground suddenly breaks along a fault. This sudden
release of energy causes the seismic waves. It make the
EXAMPLE ground shake. When two blocks of rock or two plates are
rubbing against each other, they stick a little. They don’t
just slide smoothly. The rocks are still pushing against each
other, but not moving. After a while, the rocks break
because of all the pressure that’s built up. When the rocks
break, the earthquake occurs.
During the earthquake and afterward, the plates or
blocks of rock start moving, and they continue to move until
they get stuck again. The spot underground where the rock
breaks is called the focus of the earthquake. The place right
above the focus is called the epicenter of the earthquake.
 Example
Tsunami

In Indonesia, we are very familiar with the word " Tsunami ".
This natural disaster has ever killed thousands of lives in Banda
Aceh a few years ago. Indonesia mourned, the world mourned. Then,
how the Tsunami happens? Here is a brief explanation of the
process of how the Asian tsunami happens.
Tsunamis can occur if there is a phenomenon which causes the
displacement of large amounts of water in the ocean, such as
volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides, and meteors that fall to
Earth. However, 90% of tsunamis is the result of underwater
earthquakes.
Vertical movement in the Earth's crust in the bottom of the
ocean causes a sudden up or down movement of sea floor which then
causes the water balance disorders above it. This disturbance
causes the occurrence of the flow of the massive sea water energy,
that once it reaches the shore, it becomes huge waves resulting
Tsunami.
 Global Warming
As we know now, global warming which is happening right now
has a very big impact on natural conditions, animals and humans.
Well, do you know how global warming which has a particularly
serious impact on life happens? To know the process of how this
phenomenon occurs, see the following explanation.
The process starts when sunlight shines the earth where
most of the heat is absorbed by the earth and a half of it is
reflected back onto the air (atmosphere). Sunshine returning to
the air is trapped by gases in the atmosphere such as carbon
dioxide, sulfur dioxide, methane, water vapor, and so on. This
event is known as the greenhouse effect.
Solar radiation on the earth's atmosphere makes ozone layer
get thinner and makes the sunlight which shines the Earth
become hotter. The greenhouse effect also causes the sunlight
which is reflected back onto space is reflected back into the
earth. This phenomenon causes the earth continuously getting
hotter. This condition is known as global warming.
 Daftar Pustaka

http://dinus.ac.id/repository/docs/ajar/explanatio
n_text_introduction_and_overview-fp-916c1fe4
.pdf

https://www.literacyideas.com/explanation-texts
https://inggrisonline.com/pengertian-generic-
structure-ciri-explanation-text-dan-contohnya/