Friday, July 10, 2015

Texts Genre


 text genre

The Types/ Genres of Texts


Name

No

About

Purpose

Generic Structure


Dominant Language Features:

1
story: fairy tale, legend, fable, myth, mystery, romance, horror, science fiction, etc.

to amuse, entertain the readers
orientation-evaluation-complication-resolution-reorientation
1. Using Past Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Chronologically arranged

2
personal experience, diary, history, biography, autobiography

to tell the past event
orientation-event-reorientation
1. Using Past Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Using adjectives
3
the ways or steps
to describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of actions or steps

goal-material-steps
1. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Using Imperatives sentence
3. Using adverb
4. Using technical terms
4
specific description
to describe a particular person, place or thing
identification-description
1.Using Simple Present Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Using adverb
4. Using special technical terms





 
5
news
to inform listeners or readers about events of the day considered important
newsworthy events-background-sources
1. Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
2. Using action verbs
3. Using saying verbs
4. Using adverbs : time, place and manner.

6
funny story
to tell humorous story with twist
orientation-event-twist
1.Using Past Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Using adverb
4. Chronologically arranged

7
general description
to describe the way things are, with reference to a range of natural, man-made and social phenomena
general classification-description
1. Introducing group or general aspect
2. Using conditional logical connection
3. Using Simple Present Tense

8
the process
to explain the process involved in the formation or working of natural or socio-cultural phenomena
general statement-explanation
1. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Using action verbs
3. Using passive voice
4. Using noun phrase
5. Using adverbial phrase
6. Using technical terms
7. Using general and abstract noun
8. Using conjunction of time and cause-effect.



Anecdote
9
Amusing story with twist
to share with others an account of an unusual or amusing incident
AbstracT – OrientationCrisis- Reaction -  Coda.

1.Using exclamations, rhetorical question or intensifiers
2. Using material process
3. Using temporal
conjunctions

10
opinion with reiteration
to persuade the readers that something is the case
thesis-argument-reiteration
1. Using modals
2. Using action verbs
3. Using thinking verbs
4. Using adverbs
5. Using adjective
6. Using technical terms
7. Using general and abstract noun
8. Using connectives/transition

11
opinion with recommendation (should/not or must/not)
to persuade the readers that something should or should not be the case
thesis-argument-recommendation
1. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Using modals
3. Using action verbs
4. Using thinking verbs
5. Using adverbs
6. Using adjective
7. Using technical terms
8. Using general and abstract noun
9. Using connectives/transition


12
opinion with for or against arguments
to present at least two points of views about an issue
issue-arguments for and against-conclusion
1. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Use of relating verb/to be
3. Using thinking verb
4. Using general and abstract noun
5. Using conjunction/transition
6. Using modality
7. Using adverb of manner


13
opinion about art work, film, book, song, exhibition, etc.
to criticize an art work or event
orientation-interpretative recount-evaluation-summation
1. Focus on specific participants
2. Using adjectives
3. Using long and complex clauses
4. Using metaphor



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