GENRE OF THE TEXT

There are eight types of Genre of the Text, they are:

1. RECOUNT
2. PROCEDURE
3. DESCRIPTION
4. REPORT
5. NARRATION
6. EXPLANATION
7. EXPOSITION (Hortatory Exposition and Analytical Exposition)
8. DISCUSSION

And here is the explanation bellow: 

1. RECOUNT

Purpose/ Social Function: to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining. Events are usually arranged in a temporal sequence.

Generic Structure:

• Orientation        (Provides the setting and introduces participants)
• Event                (Tells what happened, in what sequence)
• Re-Orientation  (Optional - closure of events)

Language Feature:

• Focus on specific/ individual participants.
• Use of Simple Past Tense.
• Circumstances of time and place.
• Focus on a temporal sequence of events.
• Use of material process.

2. PROCEDURE

Purpose/ Social Function: to describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of actions or steps. 

Generic Structure:

• Goal.
• Material (not required for all Procedural texts)
• Steps.

Language Feature:

• Focus on generalized human agents.
• Use of Simple Present Tense (plus sometimes imperative).
• Use of mainly temporal conjunctions (or numbering to indicate sequence).
• Use of mainly material (action) clauses or material processes.

3. DESCRIPTION
Purpose/ Social Function: to describe a particular person, place or thing.

Generic Structure:

• Identification (identifies phenomenon to be described).
• Description   (describes part, qualities, characteristics)

Language Feature:

• Focus on specific participants.
• Use of attributive and identifying processes.
• Frequent use of Epithets and Classification in nominal groups.
• Use of Simple Present Tense

4. REPORT

Purpose/ Social Function: to describe the way things are, with reference to a range of natural, cultural (man-made) and social phenomena in our environment.

Generic Structure:

• General Classification (tells what the phenomenon under discussion is)
• Description                (tells what the phenomenon under discussion is like in terms of: parts, qualities, habits/ behavior or 'uses' if non-natural). 

Language Feature:

• Focus on Generic Participants (group of things)
• Use of Simple Present Tense
• No temporal sequence
• Use of 'being' and 'having' clause.

5. NARRATION

Purpose/ Social Function: to amuse, entertain and to deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds a resolution.

Generic Structure:

• Orientation       (sets the scene and introduces the participants)
• Evaluation        (a stepping back to evaluate the plight)
• Complication    (a crisis arises)
• Resolution        (the crisis is resolved, for better or for worse)
• Re-Orientation (Optional)

Language Feature:

• Focus on specific and usually individualized participants.
• Use Material Processes
• Use of Relational Processes and Mental Processes.
• Use of temporal conjunction and temporal circumstances.
• Use of Past Tense

 6. EXPLANATION

Purpose/ Social Function: to explain the factual things to explain processes or evolution which is happened to natural phenomenon or social phenomenon.

Generic Structure:

• A 'general statement' about what is to be explained - this stage is the statement of phenomenon.
• A 'series of events' known as the 'explanation sequence' - the events may be related according to time or cause or according to both relationship.
• A 'concluding statement' - this stage is optional.

Language Feature:

• Focus to a non-human discussion.
• Menggunakan Simple Present Tense.
• Use 'temporal dan causal conjunctive relations'.
• Use 'abstract nouns', seperti 'temperature, heat' dsb.
• Use Passive Voice.

7. EXPOSITION

Exposition can be divided into two, they are: Hortatory Exposition and Analytical Exposition.

Purpose/ Social Function: to reveal the arguments which can be agree or not agree of some case.

Generic Structure of Analytical Exposition:

• Thesis       (position and preview).
• Argument  (point and elaboration)
• Reiteration (restatement of thesis)

Generic Structure of Hortatory Exposition:

• Thesis       (position and preview).
• Argument  (point and elaboration)
• Recomendation.

 Language Feature:

• Focus to a general discussion (human and non human)
• Use Simple Present Tense.
• Use logical 'conjunctive relations' dari pada 'temporal'.
• Use the general noun.
• Use 'thinking verbs'
• Use 'connectives'

8. DISCUSSION

Purpose/ Social Function: to inform about some controversial things and give an argument from the agree side or from the opposites.

Generic Structure:

• Issue                     (statement of Issue, and Preview)
• Argument For        (Points and Elaboration)
• Arguments Against (Points and Elaboration)
• Recommendation   (Summary/ conclusion)

Language Feature:

• Focus to a general discussion about human and non-human.
• Use Simple Present Tense.
• Use Logical Conjunctives'
• Use 'Thinking Verbs'.
• Use 'Adverbial Manner'.

That the Genres of the Text and the explanation of each text. So, can you make the differences and the similarities among them? I hope you can.