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Factual Report Text

The document discusses factual report text, which presents information about a topic based on observations and analysis. Factual report text aims to inform readers. It generally has two parts - a general classification of the topic followed by a description. It uses objective language like general nouns, relating verbs, technical terms and timeless present tense. The purpose is to objectively describe common objects based on facts, and it may include proofs like documents, tables or charts. This differs from descriptive text, which describes specific objects and is more subjective based on the writer's opinions and observations.

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Factual Report Text

The document discusses factual report text, which presents information about a topic based on observations and analysis. Factual report text aims to inform readers. It generally has two parts - a general classification of the topic followed by a description. It uses objective language like general nouns, relating verbs, technical terms and timeless present tense. The purpose is to objectively describe common objects based on facts, and it may include proofs like documents, tables or charts. This differs from descriptive text, which describes specific objects and is more subjective based on the writer's opinions and observations.

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FACTUAL REPORT TEXT

Factual report text or commonly called report text is text which


presents some information about thing, person, animal, scientific
phenomena, or social condition. That information based on the
result of observation and analysis. The main purpose of factual
report text is to give some information to the reader.

The Generic structures of factual report text


1. General Classification
This part contains the idea or the topic that will be explained
in the text. This part usually written as the begining of the
text.
2. Description
This part contains the explanation of the information based on
the topic. This part will be written after the general
classification.

The Characteristics / Language Feature :


1. Use of general nouns, eg hunting dogs, rather than
particular nouns, eg our dog.
2. Use of relating verbs to describe features, eg Molecules are
tiny particle.
3. Some use of action verbs when describing behaviour, eg
Emus cannot fly.
4. Use of timeless present tense to indicate usualness, eg
Tropical cyclones always begin over the sea.
5. You can use of technical terms, eg Isobars are lines drawn
on a weather.
6. Use of paragraphs with topic sentences to organise bundles
of information; repeated naming of the topic as the
beginning focus of the clause.

Sometimes, we confuse to get differences between factual report


text and descriptive text. Both the report and descriptive text try
to show rather than tell the reader about the factual condition of
the object. To make it clear, here are the differences.
(Terkadang, kami bingung membedakan antara teks laporan
faktual dan teks deskriptif. Baik laporan maupun teks deskriptif
berusaha menunjukkan daripada memberi tahu pembaca tentang
kondisi faktual objek tersebut. Untuk memperjelasnya, berikut
adalah perbedaannya.)

Factual report text Descriptive text

Describe the common object Describe the specific object

Subjective based on the idea or


Objective based on the fact
opinion of the writer

Have a proof such as


Writer’s own opinion
document, table, or chart

Scientific research text Writer’s observation and opinion

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