Expanation

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What is an expalanation text
An explanation text gives you information about a subject that you
are interested in and would like to know more about.It is usually a
text that aims to explain a process e.g. How glass is recycledCan
you think of any other topics you could choose for an explanation
text?

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Definition and Purpose
Explanation is a text which tells processes relating to
forming of natural, social, scientific and cultural
phenomena.Explanation text is to say ‘why’ and ‘how’
of the forming of the phenomena. It is often found in
science, geography and history text books.  

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Generic structure
✗ General statement :stating the phenomenon issues
whichare to be explained

✗ Sequenced explanation : stating a series of steps which

explainthe phenomena

✗ Closing : sump up the explanation and talks aboutits

applications.

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 Example of languange features
✗ Featuring Generic Participants; tsunami
✗ Using passive voice pattern: A tsunami will be generated when the
sea floor
✗ Using simple present tense: Tsunami always bring great damage
✗ Using abstract noun: vertical, horizontal, height
✗ Using action verb: movement, move
✗ Using conjunction of time: when
✗ Using noun phrases: rapidly displaced
✗ Using adverbial phrases: lake or a sea is rapidly displaced on a
massive scale
✗ Using technical terms: wave, gravity, equilibrium
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 Tsunami
The term of “tsunami” comes from the Japan which means harbor
("tsu") and wave ("nami"). A tsunami is a series of waves generated
when water in a lake or a sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale.A
tsunami will be generated when the sea floor abruptly deforms and
vertically displaces the overlying water. Such large vertical movements
of the earth's crust can occur at the plate boundaries. Subduction of
earthquakes are particularly effective in generating tsunami, and occur
where denser oceanic plates slip under continental plates. As the
displaced water mass moves under the influence of gravity to regain its
equilibrium, it radiates across the ocean like ripples on a pond.Tsunami
always bring great damage. Most of the damage is caused by the huge
mass of water behind the initial wave front, as the height of the sea
keeps rising fast and floods powerfully into the coastal area.
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Explanation text also includes
✗ Structure Present

✗ Tense Connectives

✗ Diagram and Pictures

✗ Writing a Explanation Text

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Thanks
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