REPORT TEXT
07.11
Jenis teks Report berfungsi memberikan deskripsi tentang ciri-ciri umum dari suatu jenis benda, hidup ataupun mati. Teks ini berbeda dengan teks Deskripsi, yang fungsinya memberikan uraian tentang suatu benda tertentu dan tidak dimaksudkan untuk menjeneralisasi.
FUNGSI SOSIAL
Tujuan penulis untuk menulis report text dapat dilihat dari pandangan beberapa ahli diantaranya:
* to inform (Hardy dan Klarwein, 1990)
* to provide information about natural and non-natural phenomena (Hammond, dkk., 1992)
* to document, organize and store factual information on a topic … classify and describe the phenomena of our world … about a whole class of things … [not about] one specific thing … about living things like plants and animals, and non-living things like phones, bikes, or oceans. (Derewianka, 1990)
* to describe the way things are, with reference to a range of natural, man-made and social phenomena in our environment (Gerot dan Wignell, 1994)
* to describe the way things are, with reference to a whole range of phenomena, natural, synthetic and social in our environment (Callaghan dan Rothery, 1988)
Kalau Anda perhatikan dengan cermat, berikut ini adalah unsur-unsur kegunaan yang dapat disarikan dari berbagai pernyataan di atas.
· to provide factual information
· natural and non-natural phenomena
· whole class of things
· to classify
· to describe
Bacalah dengan seksama kedua contoh Report berikut ini. Untuk itu, pelajari dahulu pertanyaan-pertanyaan berikut ini, tentang masing-masing teks tersebut.
1. Is it about something factual or fictional? What is it?
2. Does it describe a natural or non-natural phenomena?
3. Is it about a specific kangaroo or kangaroos in general?
4. To which class does the kangaroo belong?
5. How is it described here?
What is a kangaroo?
A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, although it has a smaller relative, called a wallaby, which lives on the Australian island of Tasmania and also in New Guinea.
Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, but very long, and very strong back legs and a tail. These they use for sitting up on and for jumping. Kangaroos have been known to make forward jumps of over eight metres, and leap across fences more than three metres high. They can also run at speeds of over 45 kilometres per hour.
The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo and the Red Kangaroo. Adults grow to a length of 1.60 metres and weigh over 90 kilos.
Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch on the front of her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny when it is born, and it crawls at once into this pouch where it spends its first five months of life.
Text Source: Peter Haddock Ltd., Ref.083
FUNGSI SOSIAL
Tujuan penulis untuk menulis report text dapat dilihat dari pandangan beberapa ahli diantaranya:
* to inform (Hardy dan Klarwein, 1990)
* to provide information about natural and non-natural phenomena (Hammond, dkk., 1992)
* to document, organize and store factual information on a topic … classify and describe the phenomena of our world … about a whole class of things … [not about] one specific thing … about living things like plants and animals, and non-living things like phones, bikes, or oceans. (Derewianka, 1990)
* to describe the way things are, with reference to a range of natural, man-made and social phenomena in our environment (Gerot dan Wignell, 1994)
* to describe the way things are, with reference to a whole range of phenomena, natural, synthetic and social in our environment (Callaghan dan Rothery, 1988)
Kalau Anda perhatikan dengan cermat, berikut ini adalah unsur-unsur kegunaan yang dapat disarikan dari berbagai pernyataan di atas.
· to provide factual information
· natural and non-natural phenomena
· whole class of things
· to classify
· to describe
Bacalah dengan seksama kedua contoh Report berikut ini. Untuk itu, pelajari dahulu pertanyaan-pertanyaan berikut ini, tentang masing-masing teks tersebut.
1. Is it about something factual or fictional? What is it?
2. Does it describe a natural or non-natural phenomena?
3. Is it about a specific kangaroo or kangaroos in general?
4. To which class does the kangaroo belong?
5. How is it described here?
What is a kangaroo?
A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, although it has a smaller relative, called a wallaby, which lives on the Australian island of Tasmania and also in New Guinea.
Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, but very long, and very strong back legs and a tail. These they use for sitting up on and for jumping. Kangaroos have been known to make forward jumps of over eight metres, and leap across fences more than three metres high. They can also run at speeds of over 45 kilometres per hour.
The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroo and the Red Kangaroo. Adults grow to a length of 1.60 metres and weigh over 90 kilos.
Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch on the front of her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny when it is born, and it crawls at once into this pouch where it spends its first five months of life.
Text Source: Peter Haddock Ltd., Ref.083
