Explanation Text: Is Used To Tell How or Why Something Happens

1. Meaning Report is a text which presents information about something, as it is. It is as a resultof systematic observation and analysis 2.
Purpose To present information about something as it is. 3. Generic Structure of Report 1. General classification: Stating classification of general aspect of thing; animal,public place, plant, etc which will be discussed in general2. Description: Describing the thing which will be discussed in detail; part per part ,customs or deed for living creature and usage for materials 4. Language Feature of Report Introducing group or general aspect Using conditional logical connection; when, so, etc Using simple present tense 5. Examples and structures of the textTHE PELICAN REPORT General Clasification The white pelican is one of the most successful fish-eating birds.Description The success is largely due to its command hunting behaviour. A group,perhaps two dozen birds, will gather in a curved arc some distance offshore. The birdsthen begin to move forward towards the shore, beating the water furiously with theirwings, driving the fish before them.When the water is shallow enough for the birds to reach the fish, the formationbreaks up as each bird dips its bill into the water to scoop up its meal. As the birdlifts its head, the water drains from its bill leaving the fish which are then swallowed.Pelicans are among the oldest group of birds, Fossils of this genus have been founddating back 40 million years. Explanation Text 1. Meaning Explanation is a text which tells processes relating to forming of natural, social,scientific and cultural phenomena. Explanation text is to say 'why' and 'how' of theforming of the phenomena. It is often found in science, geography and history textbook
2. Purpose is used to tell how or why something happens 3. Generic structure of Explanation General statement; stating the phenomenon issues which are to be explained. Sequenced explanation; stating a series of steps which explain the phenomena. 4. Language Feature Featuring generic participant; sun, rain, etc Using chronological connection; to begin with, next, etc Using passive voice pattern Using simple present tense 5. Examples and structures of the textTsunami The term of tsunami comes from the Japanese which means harbour ("tsu") andwave ("nami"). A tsunamigk is a series of waves generated when water in a lake
or thesea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale.A tsunami can be generated when the sea floor abruptly deforms and verticallydisplaces the overlying water. Such large vertical movements of the earth's crust canoccur at plate boundaries.Subduction of earthquakes are particularly effective in generating tsunamis, andoccur where denser oceanic plates slip under continental plates.As the displaced water mass moves under the influence of gravity to regain itsequilibrium, it radiates across the ocean like ripples on a pond.Tsunami always bring great damage. Most of the damage is caused by the huge massof water behind the initial wave front, as the height of the sea keeps rising fast andfloods powerfully into the coastal area.. NewsItemText 1. Meaning News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events areconsidered newsworthy or important. 2. Purpose to inform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy orimportant
3. Generic Structure of News Item 1. Main event2. Elaboration (background, participant, time, place)3. Resource of information 4. Language Feature of News Item 1. Focusing on circumstances2. Using material process 5. Examples and structures of the text Town ContaminatedNewsworthy events Moscow A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence of anotherSoviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.Background Events Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people whowitnessed the explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of shkotovo 22near Vladivostock.The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster, spreadradioactive fall-out over the base and nearby town, but was covered up by officials of the Soviet Union. Residents were told the explosion in the reactor of the Victor-classsubmarine during a refit had been a thermal and not a nuclear explosion. And thoseinvolved in the clean up operation to remove more than 600 tones of contaminatedmaterial were sworn to secrecy.Sumber InformasiSources A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in thehistory of the Soviet Navy. ReportText 1. Meaning Report is a text which presents information about something, as it is. It is as a resultof systematic observation and analysis 2. Purpose To present information about something as it is. 3. Generic Structure of Report 1. General classification: Stating classification of general aspect of thing; animal,public place, plant, etc which will be discussed in general2. Description:
Describing the thing which will be discussed in detail; part per part ,customs or deed for living creature and usage for materials

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1. Meaning Report is a text which presents information about something, as it is. It is as a resultof systematic observation and analysis 2.

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