Descriptive Text

A descriptive text is a text that describe about person, thing, and place.

v The purposes of descriptive text:

to discribe a particular person, thing and person in detail.

v  Generic structure of descriptive text:

a.      Identification

General statement or identifying the phenomenon to be described.

b.      Descriptions

Characteristic, part, qualities, etc.

v  Language futures

a.      Focus on specific participant

b.      Using simple present tense or present continuous tense .

c.       Using actions verb.

c.       Using adverb.

d.      Using third person pronoun.

References

Lin Lougheed.2005. short functional texts

Mark Anderson & Kathy Anderson. 2002. Text types in English.