Types of Writing Texts

commit to user 14 g. Post-writing Publishing, sharing, reading aloud, and transforming texts for stages performance.

4. Types of Writing Texts

The term of type is sometimes stated as genre. There are a number of types of texts which are exposed in the literatures. Even each expert cluster texts not exactly the same as the other expert does. Langan states 2008: 176- 359 that, traditionally, writing has been divided into the patterns of development. They are description, narration, exposition, exemplification giving example, process detailing a process of doing or making something, cause and effect, comparison or contrast, definition defining a term or concept, division-classification dividing something, and argument. Anderson and Anderson 1998: 12-31 list there are two main kinds of text; literary text and factual text. Literary text is created to attract emotion and imagination. There are three types in this category: narrative, poetic, and dramatic. Factual text is created to present information or ideas and to tell or persuade the audience, namely; recount, response, explanation, discussion, information report, exposition, and procedure. In accordance with the syllabus for SMK, types of writing texts that are taught are descriptive, narrative, report, procedure, monologue commit to user 15 announcement, advertisement, and functional text memo, letter, and business letter. Types of texts will be used in this research are descriptive, report, and procedure text. In general, the calcifications of types of writing are based on: 1 the purpose of the text, why is the text made? 2 the generic structure of the text, analyzing structure used in composing the text, in what way is the text constructed by its teacher; 3 the language feature, taking a look at the linguistic characterizations of the text. What kind of language feature is used to build the text by its teacher? In this case, the discussion will be focused on some types of text used in this research. a. Descriptive 1 The purpose of descriptive text : to describe a particular person, places, or things 2 Generic Structure: - Identification: identifies the phenomenon to be described - Description: describes parts, qualities, characteristics 3 Language features: focus on specific participants, use simple present tense b. Report 1 The purpose of text: to describe the way things are with reference to a range of natural, manmade, and social phenomenon in our environment. commit to user 16 2 Generic Structure: - General classification: tells what phenomena under the discussion - Description: tells what the phenomenon under the discussion is like in terms of parts, qualities, habits or behaviour. 3 Language features: focus on generic participants, use relational processes to state what is and it uses simple present tense. c. Procedure 1 The purpose of text: to describe how something is accomplished through a sequences of actions or steps. 2 Generic Structure: - Goal - Material - Steps 1-n 3 Language features: use simple present tense, often imperative. use mainly material processes.

5. Writing Assessment