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get when burning fossil fuels. The advantages of nuclear plant are as follow:
It costs about the same coal, so it is not expansive to make.
It does not produce smoke or carbon dioxide, so it does not contribute to the greenhouse effect.
It produces huge amounts of energy from small amount of uranium.
It produces small amount of waste. It is reliable.
On the other hand, nuclear power is very, very dangerous. It must be sealed up and buried for many
years to allow the radioactivity to die away. Furthermore, although it is reliable, a lot of money has
to be spent on safety because if it does go wrong, a nuclear accident can be a major accident.
People are increasingly concerned about this matter. In the 1990s nuclear power was the fastest growing
source of power in many parts of the world. Contrastive point
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2. Story Genre
Martin says a majority of the discourse created by human are of the story genre 1997. Story genre concerns to the record progress of events.
Furthermore, the story genre is divided into four types: recount, narrative, anecdote and exemplum.
1. Recount Genre
Recount genre is used to record a certain event such as a social phenomenon. It purposes to inform the event in the past. Recount text
consists of three steps: orientation, record and reorientation. It uses past tense and verb in the physical action as the language features.
Table 2.28 Recount Genre
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I had a heavy meal pasta + chicken ptarmigan right before the surgery. Big mistake. I was getting food coma
every time they left alone. More testing was done. My left eye really will just never
be able to see 2020, so its 2020 for my right eye and 2030 for my left - just what I expected.
Surgery was somewhat painless. They put a million drops in my eyes. Come surgery time, I was still able to feel
everything they stuck in my eyes. There was no stinging or burning feeling but I did feel a lot of pressure on my
eyes, like my eyeballs were being pressed on a lot, and it felt like there was something running around in my eyes.
Good thing they gave me that small pillow to hug throughout the operation. That was about it.
I took that picture of myself and couldnt see how it turned out. Now I see - horrible.
I went home and rested my eyes for four hours and when I woke up, I could see again. I went for a workout after
because I wanted to test out my new eyes and since I had so much energy.
Right now, Im still seeing a lot of halos. Everything that emits light has halos around them. Hopefully itll be all
gone come tomorrow morning. Im gonna have to put two types of drops on my eyes 4
times a day and Refresh teardrops every other hour. Remind me guys
Orientation
Record
Reorientation
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Narrative Genre Narrative genre purposes to entertain, and sometimes to teach or inform.
For example, narrative usually is used to entertain children or daughter before sleeping. Narrative it is seen as a complication creating the problem
which needs solution. The step of this genre consists of abstract, orientation, complication, evaluation, resolution and coda.
Table 2.29 Narrative Genre Little Red Riding Hood
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Once upon a time there was a little girl who lived with her mummy and daddy in a house near a big dark forest.
She was a very pretty and good little girl just like you, darling and she often visited her grandmother who lived
in the middle of the forest. One lovely spring day she put on her red coat and hood
and took a basket of food and set off to visit her granny. She skipped and laughed and picked flowers and soon she
arrived at her grandmothers house. She went inside but didnt see her so, she went into the bedroom where she
saw her granny lying in bed and not looking very well. What big eyes you have today, granny she said
the entire better to see you with said granny in a funny voice.
What the big nose you have today, granny she said All the better to smell you with answered granny.
What big teeth you have today, granny she said. All the better to EAT you with
And with those words, the Big Bad Wolf who had been in her grandmothers nightclothes, jumped up from the bed
and grabbed her Little Red Riding Hodd screamed and cried and kicked.
Luckily a brave woodcutter heard her and rushed in with his axe. He saved the frightened little girl by chopping the
wolf in half and there in the wolfs stomach, who they should find but Red Riding Hoods granny, who fell into
her granddaughters arms, crying with joy. And what do you think happened then, darling?
They all lived happily ever after Thats right, happily ever after. Now, off to sleep like a good girl.
Abstract
Orientation
Complication
Evaluation
Resolution
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3. Anecdote Genre
Anecdote genre retells funny and unusual incidents which purposes to invite certain emotion of readers, sympathetic feeling, a laugh, a feeling of
sadness, etc. Martin says that anecdote is seen as a crisis stage that given
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with a surge of effect such a discord, insecurity, frustration, satisfaction, security or fulfillment 1992: 565. Anecdote consists of five generic
structures such as abstract, orientation, crisis, reaction and coda. Table 2.30 Anecdote Genre
Blessing Behind Tragedy Everybody has a dream. You have and so do I. When the
dream will come true, there is something wrong last minute before it. What will we feel? What will we do?
The Clark family lived in Scotland. They had dream to travel to America. They prepared well for their plan
Few days before they went to America, his youngest son was bitten by a dog. It made they were being quarantined.
They had to forget their plan. Incident: the family was full of disappointment and anger.
The father was angry with his son and God. The family failed to travel to America and the father could not accept
it. The father thank to his son when he hear the ship sank. He
thank to God because of saving the family from sinking. He thought leaving behind the ship was not a tragedy but a
blessing. Abstract
Orientation Crisis
Reaction Coda
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Exemplum Genre Exemplum genre purposes to invite a judgmental response among readers.
Therefore exemplum can be said to be the moral equivalent of anecdotes. Martin says exemplum tells about the uncommon sequences as the
incident which makes a point to give description on how the world should shouldn’t be 1992: 565. This genre consists of five generic structures
namely abstract, orientation, incident, interpretation, and coda.
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Table 2.31 Exemplum Genre The Two City Dwellers and the Country Man
A father tells the first story from The Scholars Guide, and his son tells the second [story from the Norton Anthology
of Western Literature]. Three travelling companions of the tales title are on a
pilgrimage to Mecca. Near their destination, their provisions are nearly depleted, and the two city dwellers
attempt to cheat the country man by telling him that whoever of them dreams the most extraordinary dream
shall get the last of their bread. As the city dwellers sleep, the country man, alert to their
intended deception, eats the half-baked bread before retiring.
The city dwellers relate their made-up dreams. One says he was taken to heaven and led before God by angels. The
other says that angels escorted him to hell. The country man says he dreamed the same things that his
companions dreamed and, believing them to be forever lost, one to heaven and the other to hell, ate the bread.
The son tells his father the moral of the story: As it says in the proverb, He who wanted all, lost all. He says that
the two city dwellers got their just comeuppance. Abstract
Orientation
Incident
Interpretation
Coda
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Type of Research
This research is qualitative employing descriptive and comparative method. According to Sutopo, a research is identified as qualitative since the data
used in the research are in the forms of words, sentences or pictures rather than the numbers 2002: 35. In addition, Mardalis states that descriptive method is
used to explain the certain phenomena based on the data collected that happens currently 2002: 26.
Moreover, the research also applies a comparative method. A comparative method is realized by making comparison between two sets of things, person, and
role of activities which were known to differ in some other respects Miles and Huberman, 1984: 237. This research has also similar purposes to describe the
tenor analysis of news text in The Jakarta Post and London Evening Standard about smoking ban in public places and compares the similarities and differences
between both texts.
B. Data and Source of Data
Source of data in a research means the subject from which the data are acquired Arikunto, 2006: 129. Furthermore, the data are materials that are used
in the research. It can be in the form of words, sentences, phrases, clauses of discourse Subroto, 1992: 35.
The source data of this research are the news texts of smoking ban in public places published by different media: The Jakarta Post and London Standard
