Texts Genre

The Types/ Genres of Texts

Name	No	About	Purpose	Generic Structure	Dominant Language Features:
Narrative	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
Recount	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
Procedure	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
Description	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
News Item	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.
Spoof	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
Report	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
Explanation	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 – Orientation – Crisis- Reaction -  Coda.	1.Using exclamations, rhetorical question or intensifiers 2. Using material process 3. Using temporal conjunctions
Analytical Exposition	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
Hortatory Exposition	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
Discussion	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
Review	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