Hortatory Text Expositions

HORTATORY text EXPOSITION

By Muhammad Wildan NugrahaXI MIPA 8

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A hortatory exposition is a type of spoken or written text that is intended to explain the listeners or readers that something should or should not happen or be done. In other words, the main function of Hortatory Exposition text is to persuade the readers or listener that something should or should not be the case. To strengthen the explanation, the speaker or writer needs some arguments as the fundamental reasons of the given idea. In other words, this kind of text can be called as argumentation.

What is hortatory?

The characteristics of hortatory exposition contain:

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Purpose

Grammatical Feature

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Language Feature

Generic Structure

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PURPOSE & GENERIC STRUCTURE

Purpose, to persuade the reader or listener that something should or should not be the case.Generic Structure :

• Thesis > to presents announcement of issue of concern.
• Arguments >  it presents the reasons for concern, leading to recommendation.
• Recommendations > it presents the statement of what ought or ought not to happen.

GENERIC STRUCTURE

• An Introductory Statement: It consists of the author’s point of view (thesis), preview of the arguments that will follow in the next section, and a question or emotional statement to get audience attention.
• A series of arguments to convince the audience: This part is significant to support about the thesis. Therefore, it needs some requirements. They are explained as follow;

 - A new paragraph is used for each arguments - Each new paragraph begins with topic sentence- After topic sentence comes the details to support the arguments - Emotive words are used to persuade the audience into believing the author.

• Recommendation: statement of what should or should not happen or be done based on the given arguments.

grammatical feature

1. Focus on generic human and non-human participants.
2. Use material processes.
3. Using Present Tens
4. Using Conjuction

language feature of hortatory

• Abstract Noun, An abstract noun is a word which names something that you cannot see, hear, touch, smell, or taste. It is the opposite of a concrete noun. Examples: consideration, parenthood, belief, etc.

• Action Verb, An action verb expresses something that a person, animal, or object can do. For example: watch, talk, explode, reach, etc.

• Temporal Connective, We will refer to a temporal connective as an expression which relates an event to a point or an interval in time. For example: firstly, secondly, thirdly, etc.

• Modal Auxiliaries, Here's a list of the modal verbs in English: can, could, may, might, will, would, must, shall, should, bought to

Example hortatory text:

the importance of reading

Thesis

I personally think that reading is a very important activity in our life. Why do I say so?

Argument 1

Firstly, by reading we can get a lot of knowledge about many things in the world such as Science, technology, sports, arts, culture, etc written in either books, magazine, newspaper, etc.

Secondly, reading can give us pleasure too. When we are tired, we read books, novel, comic, newspaper or magazine on the entertainment column such as comedy, short story, quiz, etc. To make us relaxed.

Argument 2

The last, reading can also take us to other parts of the world. By reading a book about Irian Jaya we may feel we’re really sitting in the jungles not at home in our rooms.

Argument 3

Recommendation

From the facts above, it’s obvious that everyone needs to read to get knowledge, information and also entertainment. Or in summary we can say reading is truly important in our life.

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