COMMUNICATIVE PURPOSE OF A TEXT (Tujuan Komunikatif Teks) Text/Teks: Descriptive Report Procedure Narrative Recount

Communicative Purpose of Texts NO Genre Purpose/Function Generic Structure 1. Descriptive To describe certain person, animal or thing (a living or non-living) by describing its feature without including personal opinion Identification Description Parts (and their functions) Qualities/natures habits/behaviors 2. Report To describe the way things are, with reference to a whole range of phenomena, natural, synthetic and social in our environment General Classification Description : 3. Procedure To describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of actions or steps. Goal Series of steps (oriented to achieving the goal) 4. Narrative To entertain the readers or to provide entertainment and to make the audience think about an issue, teach them a lesson, or excite their emotions. Orientation Complication Resolution 5. Recount To retell events for the purposes of informing or entertaining. Events are usually arranged in a temporal sequence, eg. A personal letter Events Reorientation