NARRATIVE TEXT

SHELLA FITRIA NURJANAH

SUMMARY OF TEXT FEATURES

Purpose :
To entertain, to amuse, i.e to gain and hold the readers interest in a story.
Types
Fairy stories, mysteries, science fiction, fables, parables, myths, legends
,etc.
Text organisaton/ Generic Structure:
Orientation: Introducing the participants and informing the time and
place.
Complication: Describing the rising climax which the participants have to
do with.
Resolution: Showing the way of participant to solve the climax better or
worse.
Re-orientation/Coda: Closing remark to the story.

LANGUAGE FEATURES
Mainly action verbs
Normally past tense
Many linking words to do with time
Dialogue often included
Can bewritten in the first person ( I, We) or third person (he, she, they)

INFORMATION REPORT
Information report is a text which presents information about
something as it is. The text is the result of systematic observation and
analysis.
Information report are written and spoken (oral) about living things
and non living things.
Information report should :
Fact
Does not personal view
Observation and analyzes

PURPOSE OF INFORMATION REPORT

The function of an information report is to

document, organise, and store factual
information on a topic.

TYPE OF INFORMATION REPORT

Factual text
Information reports can contain information of various
kinds
1. Classification into different types
2. An examination of components
3. A look at various aspect

TEXT ORGANISATION OF INFORMATION

REPORT

TYPES

OF PROCESSES

1. M A T E R I A L P R O C E S S E S : T H E A C T I O N A N D
H A P P E N I N G S W E O B S E R V E TA K I N G P L A C E A R O U N D
US.
E . G . H E W A L K E D , S H E S L E P T, I T R A I N E D .
2. M E N T A L P R O C E S S E S : H U M A N E N G A G E I N W I T H
THEIR INTELLECT AND SENSE.
a. B E L I E V I N G , K N O W I N G ( P R O C E S S E S O F
COGNITION)
b. S E E I N G , O B S E R V I N G ( P R O C E S S E S O F
PERCEPTION)
c. F E A R I N G , E N J O Y I N G ( P R O C E S S E S O F
FEELING/AFFECT)
3 . V E R B A L P R O C E SS E S : T H E TA L K I N G
E.G.

HE SAID, I PROMISED, SHE TOLD.

a. R E L A T I O N A L P R O C E S S E S / L I N K I N G V E R B : R E L A T E
O N E PA R T O F T H E C L A U S E T O A N O T H E R .
-. T H E Y A R E S M A L L , Y E L L O W - B R O W N , R O U N D S H A P E D C R E AT U R E S W I T H LO N G N O S E S .
(LINKING THE SUBJECT TO ITS
CHARACTERISTIC: SIZE, COLOR , SHAPE)
a. E X I S T E N T I A L P R O C E S S E S : A N O T H E R C O M M O N
T Y P E O F P R O C ESS WH IC H I S N O T A D O IN G
VERB.
-. T H E R E A R E M A N Y D R O U G H T- S T R I C K E N
C O U N T R I E S I N T H E W O R L D T O D A Y.
-. T H E R E E X I S T S A N U R G E N T N E E D F O R FA M I N E
R E L I E F.
-. T H E R E I S N O S I M P L E S O L U T I O N T O T H E
PROBLEM.