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1. Factual Genre
a. Recount Genre
Recount is used to retell past event or something which happened in the past. It purposes to inform or even just to entertain. Recount text does
not function to generalize the issue, but having activity structured based on the sequence of time Santosa, 2010: 77.
This genre is belonged to the factual genre because it is a note of an event, such as newspaper report, police report, scientific experiment
report, etc. The structure of recount consist of three stage: orientation giving the information which answers who, when and where the text
happened, event ordered in a chronological sequence, and reorientation closing text which usually contains personal comment.
Table 2.21 Recount Genre My Adventure at Leang-Leang Cave
On Sunday, my parents, my best friend Novi, and I visited a cave at Maros called Leang-leang .
It was my first time to visit the cave, better yet; my best friend came to visit it with me
The cave was famous for its primitive cave wall paintings which were some hand prints and wild boar paintings. The
cave and its surroundings were turned into a national park, so it was taken care of.
My parents took a rest in a small hut for visitors of the park, while Novi and I adventured around the cave with a
guide. We had to climb some metal stairs to get to the cave, because the cave was embedded into a small mountain.
Next stop was a place where some seashells littered the ground and some were actually piled into a big mound The
guide said that these piles of seashells are called Kjokkenmoddinger, or kitchen trash. The humans who
lived here are the shells and dumped the left over in their kitchen.
Orientation Events 1
Event 2 Event 3
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The last place was a small museum where they have skeletons of the humans who lived in the caves. The
skeletons along with some roughly made jewelry and weapons were placed inside glass cases for display. The
walls of the museum were adorned with photographs taken when they did an excavation there.
After a quick lunch with Novi and my parents, we decided it was time to go back home. We really had the time of our
lives Event 4
Reorientation
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Report Genre
Generally report genre presents information about something. It reports a whole non-living and living thing of the social sequence as a result
of observation and analysis Wiratno, 2003: 41. In a text, report has two stages: general statement and the
classification, and the description. Report text also has language features like using conditional logical connection when, so, etc and using simple
present tense. Table 2.22 Report Genre
Komodo Dragon Do you know what the largest lizard is? This lizard is
called komodo. It lives in the scrub and woodland of a
few Indonesian islands. Komodo dragon is the worlds heaviest lizard, weighing
150 pounds or more. The largest Komodo ever measured was more than 10 feet 3 meters long and weighed 366
pounds 166 kg but the average size of komodo in the wild is about 8 feet 2.5 meters long and 200 pounds 91
kg. Komodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful
limbs and a muscular tail. They use their keen sense of smell to locate decaying animal remains from several
miles away. They also hunt other lizards as well as large General
statement the
classification.
Description
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mammals and are sometimes cannibalistic. The Komodo
dragons’ teeth are almost completely covered by its gums. When it feeds, the gums bleed,
creating an ideal culture for virulent bacteria. The bacteria that lives in the Komodo dragons saliva causes
septicemia, or blood poisoning, in its victims. A dragon will bite its prey, and then follow it until the animal is too
weak to carry on. This lizard species is threatened by hunting, loss of prey
species and habitat loss.
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c. Procedure Genre
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