What is a Hortatory Exposition Text ?

Generic Structure of Hortatory Exposition

1. Thesis : Statement or announcement of issue concern

2. Arguments : Reasons for concern that will lead to recommendation

3. Recommendation : Statement of what should or should not happen or be done based on the given arguments.

Language Features:
The use of emotive words (e.g. worried, alarmed etc)

The use of words that qualify statements (e.g. usual, probably etc)

The use of words that link arguments (e.g. firstly, However, therefore etc)

The use of compound and complex sentence

The use of modals and adverbs (e.g. may, must, should, etc)

The use of subjective opinions using pronouns I and we

Generic Features of Hortatory Exposition

• A Hortatory exposition focuses on generic human and non human participants, except for speaker or writer referring to self.

• It uses mental processes. It is used to state what the writer or speaker thinks or feels about something. For example: realize, feel etc.

• It often needs material processes. It is used to state what happens, e.g. ..has polluted, etc.

• It usually uses Simple Present Tense and Present Perfect Tense.

• Enumeration is sometimes necessary to show the list of given arguments: Firstly, secondly, Finally, etc.
  

What is a Procedure Text ?

Definition of Procedure

Procedure is a text that show a process in order. Its social function is to describe how something is completely done through a sequence of series.

Generic Structure of Procedure

1. Goal: showing the purpose

2. Material: Telling the needed materials

3. Step 1-end: Describing the steps to achieve the purpose

Language Feature of Procedure

• Using temporal conjunction

• Using action verb

• Using imperative sentence

• Using Simple Present Tense

What is a Recount Text ?

Purpose 
The purpose of a recount is to retell events.
The prefix re means again. So to recount is to state again.

Structure: 
There is often an opening or setting a of a scene. E.g. I went to the park.
The events in a recount are often in the order that they happen (Chronological order).


Language features  
Recounts are written in the past tense.
They can be written in the first or the third person
1st person It is happening to the person writing the recount i.e. I went to the park.
3rd person. An observer is telling it. Tom went to the park, there he saw a pond.
The connectives in a recount are often: Next, then, after that.
Recounts focus on what an individual or a group of people were doing.
The following are examples of recounts.