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Text Types in English

There are two main categories of text types in English: literary text types and factual text types. Each text type has its own structural and language features. The document then provides an outline describing the purpose, structural features, and language features of several common text types including narrative, report, recount, procedure, explanation, exposition, and response.

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Text Types in English

There are two main categories of text types in English: literary text types and factual text types. Each text type has its own structural and language features. The document then provides an outline describing the purpose, structural features, and language features of several common text types including narrative, report, recount, procedure, explanation, exposition, and response.

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Text types in English There two types of category of text types which students must be competent in usingLiterary text

types and factual text types. Every text type has structural and language features. An outline is provided below: Text Type Narrative Purpose To entertain, amuse or instruct Structural Features Language Features

Noun groups to Orientation describe characters complication series of and settings time events coda words Action verbs General statement Description Technical language, simple present tense, Generalised Terms

Report

To classify and/or describe

Recount

To retell a series of events

Descriptive language, past tense, Time Orientation sequence words to connect of events events, Words which tell us where, when, with whom, how Verbs usually at the beginning of each instruction Words or groups of words which tell us how, when, where, with whom

Procedure

To instruct someone how Goal material or to do something equipment steps

Explanation

To explain how or why something occurs

Technical language Phenomenon Use of words such as identification because, as a result, to Explanation sequence establish cause and effect sequences Words that qualify, eg Thesis Arguments usually, probably Words Reinforcement of that link arguments eg thesis firstly, on the other hand Context of artistic Words which express work Description judgements Descriptive of artistic work language Judgement

Exposition

To persuade by arguing one side of an issue

Response

to respond to an artistic work

Source: http://www.grchurstville.bmcc.education.nsw.gov.au/english_text_types.htm

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