EXPLANATION TEXT [1]

Explanation Text

Explanation Text is a text that is used to explain the way or process of something happening. related to natural phenomena, especially the scientific or socio-cultural world.

An explanation is written to explain how and why something in the world happens. It is about actions rather than about thing.

Explanation text serves to explain the process and causes of the occurrence of an event or a thing in detail. a explanation text usually comes from questions related to why and how to something existing phenomenon.

=> It can be concluded that the purpose of Explanation Text is to explain the processes the process that occurs in the formation of something or activities related to natural, social, scientific, cultural, and other phenomena that aims to explain why and how this happened.

Text structure / Generic Structure an explanation text consists of :

-General Statement

Namely the introduction of an event that we will tell. Or general explanation about the event. In the general statement contains a general explanation of phenomenon to be discussed, can be an introduction to the phenomenon or the explanation.

-Sequenced Explanation 

That is an explanation of why and how the event occurred. In this section the author can write more than one paragraph. Sequenced explanations contain explanations the process of why these phenomena can occur or are created. Sequenced explanations in the form of answers to the questions why and how the author when making an explanation text. Sequenced explanations can consist of more than one paragraph.

-Closing or Concluding Statement

That is the conclusion or conclusion of the story. Actually the closing is not listed in the generic structure of explanation text, but most people assume that the last paragraph of an explanation text is closing, even though it is the part of sequenced explanations that contains the final steps described in sequenced explanations section.

Example :

Questions:

1. What does the text mostly talk about?

: The text mostly talks about earthquake

2. What is paragraph 1 about?

: Paragraph 1 is about the description of earthquake

3. What do paragraph 2 and 3 discuss on?

: Paragraph 2 adn 3 is about how earthquake happens

4. What does paragraph 4 tell us about?

: Paragraph 4 is about the writer opinion toward earthquake

5. What does the writer write the text for?

: The writer writes the text to explain how and why an earthquake happens to the readers

6. What kind of tense does the text mostly use?

: The text mostly uses present tense

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Structure of Explanation Text 

Social Function : An Explanation text is used to describe how and why a certain phenomenon happens

Generic Structure : 

1. A Tittle that identifies the topic to be explained

2. AGeneral Statement

3. A sequenced Explanation ( a clear order about how and why )

4. Closing / Concluding Statement

Linguistic Features : 

1. Focused on general group rather than specific

2. Use a linking word like, in general , rather, for instance

3. Use action verbs like breaks, erupts

4. Use Present tense

5. Use Passive voice

6. Reference to people should not be given

7. Use of technical terms and language relevants to the subjects

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Language Characteristic

Elements of Language

- Adverb first, then, following, finally

- Cause-and-effect relationship (if –then, so, as a consequence, since, due to, because of, thanks to

- Passive sentences, in present tenses

- Speech, stress, intonation, spelling, punctuation and handwriting

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Topics

Non-human objects, such as water, evaporation, rain with high exposure foster the behavior contained in KI

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Exercise from module

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