Report

REPORT TEXT

DEFINITION AND EXAMPLE

Definition:

It is a piece of text that presents information about a subject. It contains facts about the subject, a description and information on its parts, behavior and quality.

Social Function:

To describe the way things are, with reference to a range of natural, man-made and social phenomena in our environment

Generic Structure of a recount text:

·         General classification: tells what the phenomenon under discussion is.

·         Description tells what the phenomenon under discussion is like in terms of (1) parts, (2) qualities, (3) habits or behaviors, if living uses, if non-natural.

Significant Lexicogrammatical features:

·         Focus on specific participants

·         Use of material processes

·         Circumstances of time and place

·         Use of past tense

·         Focus on temporal sequence.

 EXAMPLE