Explanation Text
Explanation Text
Every
day in class, the teacher will explain something to his students. Starting from
the process of the occurrence of rain, how the organs of the human body work,
how to operate a machine and others. The explanation is the same as the
explanation text.
Explanation
text or explanatory text has the aim of explaining various social, natural and
cultural phenomena. To understand what explanation text is, what the generic
structure is, how to write explanation text, and practice questions and
answers, see the article below.
Definition of Explanation Text
Explanation
text dalam bahasa Inggris adalah “The text often tells you about how something
works or why something happens.”
explanations
related to the subject in the explanation text will be explained logically and
in detail. Usually, this text is used to discuss natural phenomena, social
phenomena, culture, or about things around us. Explanatory text is presented in
simple language accompanied by images.
We
can find explanation text in different written media, such as natural science
books (biology and physics), social science books (history and geography),
pamphlets, even articles on the internet.
Purpose of Explanation Text
- Explanation is a text which tells processes relating to forming of natural, social, scientific, and cultural phenomena.
- To explain how or why something happens.
Language Feature Explanation Text
- Using the present tense, because explanation text discusses a fact.
- Using complex groups of nouns, it aims to build detailed descriptions for example, 'Threatening', 'Rampaging' or 'Enormous' and many more.
- Using abstract nouns such as 'heat', 'earthquakes', 'floods', etc.
- Use sentences with clear subjects and use verb agreement.
- Using action verbs to explain the causes of the phenomenon being discussed such as 'from' or 'started from'.
- Using adverbial phrases of time and place to tell when and where the event took place. For example. 'Its is to be found in Sulawesi, Indonesia'.
- Using connectors to connect time sequences in cause and effect order. For example 'after', 'finally', 'so', 'then' and others.
Characteristik Explanation Text
a.) The information contained is based on facts (factual).
b.) What is discussed is a phenomenon that is scientific in nature or related to science.
c.) It is informative and does not try to influence the reader to believe in what is discussed.
d.)
Focuses on generic things, not human participants. Examples: tsunami, flood,
earthquake, rain, etc.
Generic Structure Explanation Text
1. Title
The title of the explanation text
has the aim of preparing or directing the reader to the text. Titles in this
text usually appear in various forms from mentioning an action to asking 'How'
and 'Why' questions. Such questions will be answered with explanations in the
text.
2. General statement
In the opening statement, the
writer can also include the identification of a process to be explained in the
text. To write an opening statement, you can try to focus on the process of the
phenomenon you want to explain. An opening statement that introduces or
identifies a phenomenon to be discussed will give the reader a brief
introduction to it and provide a brief understanding of the type of text you
are writing.
3. Explanation
This section contains an
explanation of the process of this happening. How the process of something
happening is demanded. You can explain the causes or stages of how it happened.
This section can be 1 paragraph, 2 paragraphs or even more.
4. Closing
This closing section contains
conclusions from the events that occurred.
Example of Explanation Text
Lightning
is a bolt of electricity between the sky and the ground. A single bolt has
enough power to light hundreds of lamps for a day. Lightning can strike people
and even kill them. Lightning also starts hundreds of forest fires every year.
Inside
the big dark thunderclouds on a stormy day are millions of tiny droplets of
ice. These collide with each other all the time, creating an electric charge (a
small amount of electricity). In no time, they could get filled up with
charges.
Electric
charges are neither positive nor negative. When negative charges from the
bottom of the could and positive charges of the ground meat, a flash is seen.
This flash is actually the path of the electrical charges. All this happens in
a fraction of a second.
Lightning
heats the air around it to temperatures up to 30,000 degrees Celcius. This is
more than five times hotter than the surface of the Sun. When air is heated so
quickly, it expands and contracts violently, much like a balloon bursting. The
explosion is heard as thunder. Lightning and thunder happen at the same time,
but why do we always see lightning first and hear thunder later? This is
because light travels almost a million times faster than sound.
Mayers, those are examples of questions and discussions about explanation text that you should know. If you want to get deeper into explanation texts or other insights about English, you can take a look at the articles I wrote and practice diligently. Hope it is useful!
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