GENRE OF THE TEXTS

GENRE OF THE TEXTS
A.EXPOSITION (ANALYTICAL)
Social Function
To persuade the reader or listener that somethings the case.
Generic Structure
Thesis
Position : Introduces topic and indicates writer’s position.
Preview : Outlines the main arguments to be presented.
Arguments
Point : restates main arguments outlined in preview.
Elaboration : developes and supports each argument
Reorientation
Restates the writer’s position.
Features
Focus on generic human and non-human participants.
Use of simple present tense.
Use of internal conjunction to state argument.

B.EXPOSITION (HORTATORY)
Social Function
To persuade the reader or listener that something should or should not be the case.
Generic Structure
Thesis
Announcement of issue concern.
Arguments
Reasons for concern, leading to recommendation.
Recommendation
Statement of what ought or ought not to happen.
Features
Focus on generic human and non-human participants.
Use of simple present tense

C.NEWS ITEM
Social Function
To inform raeders, listeners or viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important.
Generic Structure
Newsworthy events
Recounts the event in summary form
Background events
Elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstance.
Sources
Comments by participants in witnesses to and authorities expert on the event.
Features
Focus on circumstances.
Use of present tense

D.ANECDOTE
Social Function
To share with others an account of an unusual or amusing incident.
Generic Structure
Abstract
Signals the retelling of an unsual incident.
Orientation
Sets the scence.
Crisis
Provides details of the unusual incident.
Reaction
Reaction to crises.
Coda
Optional-reflection on or evaluation of the incident.
Features
Use of temporal conjunction.
Use of material processes to tell what happened.

E.NARRATIVE
Social Function
To amuse entertain and to deal with actual or various experience.
Generic Structure
Orientation
Sets the scene and introduces the participants.
Evaluation
A stepping back to evaluate the plight.
Complication
A crisis areas.
Resolution
S crisis is reserved for better or worse.
Re-orientation
Optional.
Features
Focus on specific and usualy individualized participants.
Use past tense.

F.PROCEDURE
Social function
To describe how something is accomplished throgh a sequence of action or steps.
Generic structure
Goal
Materials (not required for all procedural)
Features
Focus on generalized human agents.
Use of simple present tense.

G.DESCRIPTION
Social Function
To describe a particular person, place or thing.
Generic Structure
Identification
Identifies phenomenon to be described.
Description
Describes parts, qualities, characteristics.
Festures
Focus on specific participants.
Use of simple present tense.

H.REVIEW
Social Function
To critique an art work, event for a public audience.
Generic Structure
Orientation
Places the work in its general and particular context, often by comparing it with others of its kind or through analogue with a non-art object or event.
Interperative recount
Summaries the plot and/ or provides an account of how the reviewed rendition of the work came into being is optional but if present, often recursive.
Evaluation
Provides an evaluation of the work and/ or its performance or production is usually recursive.
Evaluative Summation
Providers a kind of punchline which sums up the reviewer’s opinion of the art event as a whole is optional.
Features
Focus on particular participants.
Use of elaborating and extending clauses and group complexes to package the information.

I.RECOUNT
Social Function
To retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.
Generic Structure
Orientation
Provides the setting and introduces participants.
Events
Tell what happened, in what sequence.
Re-orientation
Optional closura of events.
Features
Focus on specific participants.
Use of past tense.
Focus on temporal sequence.

J.REPORT
Social Function
To describe the way things are, with references to a range of natural, 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, habit or behaviour.
Features
Focus on generic participants.
Use of simple present tense.

K.DISCUSSION
Socisl Function
To present two points of view about an issue.
Generic Structure
Issue
.statement
.preview
Arguments for and against
Conclusion or recommendation
Features
Focus on generic human and generic non-human participations.
Reasoning expressed as verbs and nouns.
Use of comparative.

L.EXPLANATION
Social Function
To explain the processes involved in the formation or workings of natural or sociocultural phenomena.
Generic Structure
General Statement
To position the reader.
Sequenced exlanation
How or why something occurs.
Conclusion
Features
Focus on generic human, non-human participants.
Some use passive voice.