sometimes how it tastes. Description writing uses concrete language to portray the characteristic of object.
c. Exposition
Exposition is writing that explains something exposition is writing with a referential aim. The aim of exposition to present ideas, to make the ideas clear as
possible and to persuade reader or listener by presenting one side of argument. Mark and Kathy opinion about features of an exposition, there are features
of an exposition; a. Constructing an exposition, in the text usually has three section :
Introduces the author`s point of view and can preview argument that may d reinforce follow in the text.
The series of arguments that aim to convince the audience
Conclusion that sums up the arguments and reinforces the author`s point of view
b. Grammatical features of an exposition such as Word that express the author`s attitude modality example, will,
may, must, always, rarely, Emotive nouns and verbs,
Adverbs that show a time sequence and link arguments
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From the explanation, the writer concludes about exposition is used to give information, making explanations and interpreting meaning. It includes editorials,
essays, and informative and instructional material. In other hand Tricia Hedge defines, “Exposition is writing that inform, clarifies, defines, analyzes, or
otherwise treats a subject by letting the reader. It often answer the question what, why, how”.
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4. Kinds of Descriptive Writing
As we know that descriptive is to describe something, such as a person, place, or thing. When the people describe, they often describe each of people in
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Mark Anderson and Kathy Anderson, Text types in English 3, Australia: Macmilan, 1998, p. 22.
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Tricia Hedge, Writing Resources Book for Teacher, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, p.83
terms of age, nationality, clothes, hair, face, height, etc. Therefore, based on that statement it can be seen that describe has three types kind
a. Describing people
If you are writing a description of a person, you can start off their subject, physical appearance, the clothes, the clothes they wear the sound of their voices,
the language they use, or simply they walk.
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In the describing people, there are many ways such as hisher face, color of hair, clothes, skin, body shape, etc.
b. Description of a place
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