The Purpose of Writing

d. Language : the employment of grammatical forms and Syntactical pattern. e. Mechanic : the use of graphic convection of language demonstrates good command of spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. In the words to know students’ descriptive text ability the writer used the aspects of scoring system as follows: task fulfillment content, organization, vocabulary, language and mechanics. G. The Types of Text In English, we can found type of writing. Each of these writing has its own characteristics and functions. The students of senior should have knowledge of those writing text. According to Anderson, types of text in English are divided into several types. They are poetic, dramatic, narrative, response, discussion, explanation, exposition, information report, procedure and recount. These variations are genre. 23 1. Spoof Spoof is a text to retell an event with a humorous twist. 2. Recount Recount is a text to retell events for the purposes of informing or entertaining. 3. Report 23 Mark Anderson and Kathy Anderson, Text Types in English 2, Melbourne: Macmillan,2003, p.3 Report is a text to describe the way things are reference to a range of natural, manmade and social phenomena in our environment. 4. Analytical Exposition Analytical exposition text is a text to persuade the reader or listener that something in the case. 5. News Item News item text is a text to inform readers, listeners, or viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important. 6. Anecdote Anecdote is a text to share with others an account of an unusual or amusing incident. 7. Narrative Narrative text is a text to amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways. 8. Procedure Procedure text is a text to describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of actions or steps. 9. Description Description text is a text to describe a particular persons, place or thing. 10. Hortatory Exposition Hortatory exposition text is a text to persuade the reader or listener that something should or should not be the case.