Pelatihan Pembelajar Sukses
Mahasiswa atau PPSMB merupakan acara tahunan bagi para mahasiswa baru di Universitas
Gadjah Mada, atau dengan kata lain Ospek. Saat mendengar kata Ospek, bulu kuduk
para mahasiswa baru berdiri, merasakan bahwa jiwa mereka sedang terancam. Bayangan
tentang tugas, dan seharian melakukan hah-hal yang absurd pun langsung muncul
di pikiran mereka. Namun,
Report Text
Kamis, 06 Desember 2012
A. DEFINITION OF REPORT
Report Text is one of the 13
types of English texts (genres) that presents
information about things like nature, animals, plants, products of human
endeavor and social phenomena, as it is. The information presented in the
Report Text is the result of systematic observation and analysis. A report is
essentially a description that classifies and describes things in general and
specific terms.
B. PURPOSE OF REPORT.
-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
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)
natural, synthetic and social in our environment (Callaghan dan Rothery, 1988)
There
are the elements of usefulness of that can be extracted from the
above statements.
· Provide
factual information to
· Non-natural
and natural phenomena
· Whole class
of Things
· To classify
· To describe
C. GENERIC STRUCTURE OF REPORT
1.
General
classification:
Stating classification of
general aspect of thing; animal, public place, plant, etc which will be
discussed in general.
2.
Description:
Describing the thing which
will be discussed in detail; part per part , customs or deed for living creature
and usage for materials
There are
also some generic
information about the report text structure, that is:
1. General information:
the
part that mentions the general information of literary themes.
2. Bundles of Specific
Information:
the
elaboration of this
general information.
D. LANGUAGE FEATURE OF REPORT
§
Using conditional logical
connection; when, so, etc
§
Using simple present tense
§ Use of general nouns, eg hunting dogs, rather than
particular nouns, eg our dog;
§ Use of Relating verbs to describe features, eg
Molecules are tiny particles;
§ Some use of action verbs when describing behavior, eg
Emus can not fly;
§ Use of timeless present tense to indicate usualness,
eg Tropical cyclones always begin over the sea;
§ Use of technical terms, eg Isobars are lines drawn on
a weather map;
§ Use of paragraphs with topic sentences to organise
bundles of information; repeated naming of the topic as the beginning focus of
the clause.
E. DIFFERENCES IN THE REPORT AND DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
1.
Report:
- General Structure:
a. General Statement
b. Description
2.
Descrition:
- General Structure:
a. Identification
b. Description
- Part of unity of thing
Description
is a type of text that contains a description of something. To describe that
describes the means, then type this text tells something obvious, so regardless
of the object described, the reader
or listener could almost see the object clearly. Almost similar to the text genre REPORT. But of course there are differences. Report tells something general, but Description text tells only one of the specified object.
In short, the Report Text describing something that usually refers to the phenomena of nature, animals, and scientific objects. Report Text written after getting careful observation. This scientific tekhnikal makes a clear difference of Descriptive Text.
F. EXAMPLE OF REPORT TEXT
Hello friends, thank you for
the time given to me. Here I want to tell you about the king of the jungle. Do
you know the Lion? Well, I think you have seen a Lion in the television or in
the zoo. Well guys, Lion is a carnivore, and it is a wild animal. You can find
a Lion in the African jungle, you also can find it in the savannah and forest.
A Lion looks like a cat but
it is bigger than a cat. The male Lion has mane, it is bigger than the female.
Friends? Do you know that Lion is a great hunter? They can run very fast like a
horse. They have strong and sharp claws to catch their prey. Its fangs are very
strong. Emmm. . . Lion likes to eat zebra, buffaloes, or deer. And guys, you
must know that Lion is a good listener because it can hear voice from until 100
until 150 meters.
Well friends, I think that’s
all about the king of the jungle. And it’s time for me to leave. I hope this
short report will be useful for you. Ok guys, thank you for your attention. See
you bye, , bye. .
What Is Thunder and Lightning?
Lightning is a
sudden, violent fl ash of electricity between a cloud and the ground, or from
cloud to cloud. A lightning fl ash, or bolt, can be several miles long. It is
so hot, with an average temperature of 34,000° Centigrade, that the air around
it suddenly expands with a loud blast. This is the thunder we hear.
Lightning occurs in hot, wet storms. Moist air is driven up to a great height.
It forms a type of cloud called cumulonimbus. When the cloud rises high enough,
the moisture freezes and ice crystals and snowfl akes are formed. These begin
to fall, turning to rain on the way down. This rain meets more moist air
rising, and it is the friction between them which produces static electricity.
When a cloud is fully charged with this electricity, it discharges it as a
lightning flash.
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 are used for sitting up 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. Adult 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
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