Report Text

                Report Text adalah salah satu genre of text yang masuk kategori descriptive. Definisi report text itu sendiri adalah sebuah jenis teks yang berusaha menggambarkan sesuatu seperti benda, manusia, tumbuhan, hewan, dan sebagainya yang masih sangat umum. Misalnya kita sedang membicarakan singa, maka kita akan membahas sifat, bentuk, dan karakter singa pada umumnya.

1. Building the Context

a.    Social Function

Test report mempunyai fungsi untuk mendeskripsikan sesuatu apa adanya, dengan mengacu pada seluruh fenomena, hakikat, kultur, dan sosial. (To descriptive the way things are, with reference to a range of natural, cultural (manmade) and social phenomena in our environment).

b.    Generic Structure

Struktur generik teks report terdiri dari klasifikasi umum (general classification) dan deskripsi (description).

1) General Classification: tells what the phenomenon under discussion is.

2) Description: tells what the phenomenon under discussion is like in terms of:

a)      parts (and their function)

b)      qualities

c)      habits/behavior or ‘uses’ if non-natural

c.     Language Features

Teks report mempunyai fitur bahasa sebagai berikut:

1)      Focus on Generic Participants (group of things)

2)      Use of simple present tense (unless extinct)

3)      No temporal sequence

4)      Use of ‘being’ and ‘having’ clause

d.      Example

Generic Structure	Report Text
	Sea Lions
General Classification	Sea-lions are sea-mammals and are warm-blooded.
Technical Classification	They breathe air with their lungs. The scientific name for the family they belong to is Neophoca Cinerea (Nee-o-fo-ka Sin-er-ee-a)
Description	Australian sea-lions are about 250 cms long. Adult males (called bulls) grow to about 3 metres and are the largest Australian mammal (they no longer breed in Australia). The female sea-lions are always smaller than the bulls in length and weight. Australian sea-lions have a body shaped for slipping smoothly through the water and a thick layer of fat underneath their skin. They have a covering of hair, large eyes and long stiff whiskers. They have large nostrils, long, sharp teeth and two pairs of short legs with the five-toed feet flattened like paddles of fins. When Australian sea-lions pups are born they feed on their mothers’ milk. Sea-lions have to come on dry land when they mate and have babies. Bull sea-lions are big and dark and they mate with lots of females. If a baby pup goes near a bull, the bull will kill it. When the pup is trying to look for its mother, no other sea-lion will feed it. If it can’t find its mother, it will starve. Australian sea-lions are found along the South-Western shores of West Australia and most of the South Australian coastline and off-the shore islands. Sea-lions eat fish and squid.