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and discover their thoughts, constructing meaning, and assess them at the same time”. It stays in the same page as Zimmeerman and Rodrigues 1992. In this
study, writing means delivering thoughts or ideas to the others through the descriptive text.
Every writing has its own purpose. Walvoord 1985 notes that writing can be claimed as such effective writing if the contents of the writing
show the purpose of the writing to the readers p. 2. This statement vividly goes in line
with Zimmerman and Rodrigues 1992. According to Zimmerman and Rodrigues 1992, “Good writing is writing that is appropriate to the specific writing
situation for which it was produced” p. 8. Meaning that students, as the descriptive text writers should write an appropriate writing to what they are asked
to write about. In other words, if the purpose of the writing is to describe a particular person, place, or thing using senses to create vivid images in reader’s
mind, the contents of the writing should make the readers see images in their minds. In short, being consequent with the purpose of the writing is necessary to
write something.
5. Descriptive text
McMurrey 1983 notes that description is a way to enable the reader to visualize a person, place, or things with some appropriate senses included p.
239. Henry 2008 strengthtens the the statement of McMurrey 1983 related to descriptive text. Henry 2008 points out that through descriptive text, the students
can use and explore their sensory details like smell, sound, sight, taste, and texture to create vivid images in the reader’s mind. In the same boat, Indonesian experts,
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Wardiman, Jahur, and Djusma 2008 note that the social function of descriptive text is to describe a particular person, place or thing p. 26. Thus, from those
expert statements, it can be sorted out that descriptive text aims to describe a particular person, place, or thing using senses to create vivid images in the
reader’s mind. Since the descriptive text deals with describing thing, place, or person,
present tense is inevitable to use. Wardiman et al. 2008 say that the language features used in descriptive text is the simple present tense p. 26. Azar 1992
say, “The simple present expresses general statement of facts and timeless truths” p. 13. It means that the simple present is used when something was true in the
present, past, and will be true in the future. Beside that, Azar 1992 states, “The simple present is used to express habitual or everyday activities” p. 13.
According to Azar 1992, simple present tense basic patterns are “Subject + V1 or V1ses” and “Subject + amisare”. The examples of those are “My dog has
four legs” and “My dog is a pet animal”. Meanwhile the negative forms of simple present tense are “Subject + don’tdoesn’t” and “Subject + amisare + not”. The
examples of the negative forms of simple present tense are “My dog doesn’t eat chocolate” and “My dog is a wild animal”.
Hammond 1992, and Wardiman et al. 2008 state the same theory related to generic structure of descriptive text. Both Hammond 1992 and
Wardiman et al. 2008 claim that there are two main parts in descriptive text. Those are the identification and the description. In identification, the phenomenon
