Description or

Descriptive Reports
Salwa Fadila Firdaus

Description or Descriptive Reports

A text which focuses on describing particular things, items,
or individuals and it specifies some of their characteristic.
Description genres can be written about places and things

Example: A cat at my house

Nanda, my smart friend

The social function and linguistic feature

of a descriptive text
Personal
WhichComment
gives personal

Social function

comment on the person

or thing and why you
like them

To describe a particular
person, place or thing

Schematic
Structure
Identific
identifies
a
ation
phenomenon, person,
place or thing to be
described.

Descript
describes parts,
ion qualities,

characteristics of the
phenomenon, person, thing or
place introduced in the first
element.

The social function and linguistic feature of a

descriptive text

Focus on a specific participant

The Queen Elizabeth, The times,
Bandung, My friend

Language
Features
include:

Use of use of being and

identifying verbs
My friend is a nice person
Bandung is the capital city of
west java
Frequent use of nominal groups
to describe
A quiet person, A wonderful city
Use of the simple present tense
(use for telling a fact of object)
He is a nice person

Expanded noun
Noun and noun group help provide a great deal of information.
The same noun (boy) is expanded by using an adjective:
A diligent boy
A quiet boy
A tidy boy

Noun can be expanded in several different ways to give

additional information. For example: classify the type of boy:
can know the country
A diligent Indonesian boy Wewhich
the boy comes
A diligent Australian boy

Or, you can expand the noun by putting a

prepositional phrase after it that provides more
information about the boy:
A diligent Indonesian boy in my class
A quiet Indonesian boy at the front of the class room
A tidy Indonesian boy with very neat books

Information Report
By Sri Wahyuningsih

Information report are genres that classify some

animal or phenomenon and then describe it.

Information report
Social function
Schematic structure
Classification
Description
Language features

EXPLANATIONS
By Olga Sylvia

EXPLANATIONS
Explanation is a text which tells
processes relating to forming of
natural, scientific,or history.

Social Function

To Indentify some phenomenon

that needs to be explained.

Schematic Structure
Phenomenon Identification : States the
phenomenon that needs to be explained.
Explanation Sequence : Explain
how or why the phenomenon accours.

Language Features
Use of present tense.
Focus on general groups of animal or phenomena.
Usually the subject is not human .
Use of technical language , often of science . (e.g
Nitrogen,oxygen,etc)
Use of time or sequence conjunction.
Some use modality to express judgement(e.g
mostly,usually)

Modality
Modal Verbs : They may complete their homework.
They might complete their homework.
They must complete their homework.
Modal adverbs :
Perhaps/possibly they will complete their homework.
Probably they will complete their homework.
Certainly they will complete their homework.

To express how frequently

They
They
They
They

often do their homework.

occasionally do their homework.
always do their homework.
sometimes do their homework.

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