HORTATORY
EXPOSITION TEXT
Hortatory
exposition is a text that describes the theory / issues in a comprehensive
manner with the aim of encouraging others to do / not to do something.
The
text serves to invite and induce the readers about something with the reasons,
something should happen or not happen
GENERIC
STRUCTURE OF HORTATORY EXPOSITION
1. Thesis / General
Statement
2. Arguments
3. Recommendation.
Examples :
Language features
* Generic participant. Object, the
subject is general
* There are action verb
* Using a mental process, eg: think,
feel, understand and so on.
* Simple present tense
Analytical Exposition
Analytical
Exposition can be understood as a text that tries to provide a comprehensive
explanation of a problem with showing the opinions of supporters carefully.
The
purpose “to attempt to persuade the reader to believe something by presenting
one side of the argument.”
GENERIC
STRUCTURE OF ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION
1. Thesis / General Statement
2. Arguments
3. Reiteration/conclusion
Examples
:
1. The Dangerous of Using Drugs
2. Is Smoking Good for Us?
3. Opportunity in the Global Financial
Crisis
4. Career in Translation
5. Laptop as Student’s Friends
Language
features:
1. Emotive words such as:
alarmed, worried.
2. Words that qualify statements such as:
usual, probably
3. Words that link arguments such as:
firstly, however, on the other hand, therefore.
4. Usually present tense
5. Compound and complex sentences
From
the generic structure, what make big different is that analytical exposition
ends with paragraph to strengthen the thesis while hortatory makes a
recommendation for readers.
