Kind Of Text

1. Recount Text Social Function: to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining. Generic Stucture: a. Orientation: provides the setting and introduces the participants b. Events : tell what happened, in what sequences c. Reorientation: optional closure of events Significant lexiogrammatical features: Focus on specific participants, use material processes, circumstances on time and place, use past tense, focus on temporal sequence	4. Procedure Text ·         Social Function: to describe how something is accomplished through a sequences of actions or steps. ·         Generic Structure: a. Goal b. Material c. Steps 1-n ·         Significant lexicogrammatical features: Use simple present tense, often imperative. use mainly material processes
2. Report Text Social Function: to describe the way things are with reference to a range of natural, manmade, and social phenomenon in our environment. Generic Structure: a.       General classification: tells what    phenomena under the discussion b.      Description: tells what the phenomenon under the discussion is like in terms of parts, qualities, habits or behavior. Significant Lexiogrammatical Features: focus on generic participants, use relational processes to state what is and that which it is. use simple present tense	5. Descriptive Text ·         Social Function : to describe a particular person, places, or things ·         Generic Structure: a.Identification: identifies the phenomenon to be described b.Description: describes parts, qualities, characteristics ·         Significant lexicogrammatical features: Focus on specific participants, use simple present tense
3. Narrative Text Social Function: to amuse, entertain Generic Structure: a. Orientation: sets the scene and introduces the participants b. Evaluations: a stepping back to evaluate the plight. c. Complication: a crisis arises d. Resolution: the crisis is resolved e. reorientation: optional Significant lexiogrammatical features: focus n specific participants, use material processes, behavioral processes, and verbal processes. Uses temporal conjunctions, and temporal circumstances, use past tense	4. Anecdote Text ·         An anecdote usually tells unusual or amusing acident to entertain other ·         Social Function/ communicative purpose: to tell incident like events which was funny or unusual both based on imagination or the real event for the purpose of entertaining other ·         Generic structure a.       Abstract: signal the retelling of an usual accident b.      Orientation: introduces main characters, settings and times c.       Crisis: tells details of unusual accident d.      Reaction:  tells the reaction to crisis e.       Coda: tells the reflection or evaluation of the accident ·         Language features a.       Interjection, rhetorical questions and words like: Listen to this!, do you know what? And It is awful, isn’t it? b.      Uses action Verbs, for instance: Go, write, Etc c.       Conjunctions that correlate with Times like: Then, Afterword, after that Etc d.      Uses Verb form Past tense