REPORT TEXT

Dinda Lana Estetika

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DEFINITION
Report text is a text that function to provide information about an event or
situation, after the holding of the investigation and through various
considerations.
GENERIC STRUCTURE OF
REPORT TEXT
 As descriptive text, Report text also has only two generic structures:

#General Classification ; Stating classification of general aspect of thing; animal, public

place, plant, etc. which will be discussed in general
# Description : tells what the phenomenon under discussion ; in terms of parts, qualities,
habits or behaviors.

 The other says that the generic structure of Report Text are :

* Title. A title of a report text indicates the topic of the text and it is a very general thing.
* General information. General information is the part that mentions general
information from the written objects discussed.
* Bundles of Specific Information. Bundles of specific information, is the descriptions of
objects in detail.
PURPOSE OF REPORT TEXT
 To describe something in general.
 To presenting information about (something), as it is.
 To describe the way things are.
LANGUAGE FEATURE OF
REPORT TEXT:
– Use of general nouns, eg hunting dogs, rather than particular nouns, eg our dog;
– Use of relating verbs to describe features, eg Molecules are tiny particles;
– Some use of action verbs when describing behavior, eg Emus cannot fly;
– Use of timeless present tense to indicate usualness, eg Tropical cyclones always begin
over the sea;
– Use of technical terms, eg Isobars are lines drawn on a weather map;
– Use of paragraphs with topic sentences to organize bundles of information; repeated
naming of the topic as the beginning focus of the clause.
EXAMPLE OF REPORT TEXT
Goats
Do you have a goat in your home?
Have you ever seen a goat directly?
Where do you always see it?
Goats are the interesting mammal animal. They are vertebrates. They belong to mammal and
they can be found over the world.
Goats breathe with their lung. They can walk and run but they can be in hurry, they use their
four legs. There are many kinds of goats. All of them eat grass because that are herbivore. They
live in all the world. Some of them have torn in their head. You can hear their voice
“embeeeeeeeeeek”. Don’t you know that they have teeth to eat something?
Female goat can be pregnant and bear their baby goat. They always live together with others
goat to find the food. We can consume them in satay, soup, barbeque and other meal.