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Text types in English There two types of category of text types which students must be competent in usingLiterary text types and factual text types. Every text type has structural and language features. An outline is provided below: Text Type Narrative

Report

Recount

Procedure

Purpose

Structural Features

Language Features

To entertain, amuse or instruct

Noun groups to Orientation describe characters complication series of and settings time events coda words Action verbs

To classify and/or describe

General statement Description

To retell a series of events

Descriptive language, past tense, Time Orientation sequence words to connect of events events, Words which tell us where, when, with whom, how

To instruct someone how Goal material or to do something equipment steps

Technical language, simple present tense, Generalised Terms

Verbs usually at the beginning of each instruction Words or groups of words which tell us how, when, where, with whom

To explain how or why something occurs

Technical language Phenomenon Use of words such as identification because, as a result, to Explanation sequence establish cause and effect sequences

Exposition

To persuade by arguing one side of an issue

Words that qualify, eg Thesis Arguments usually, probably Words Reinforcement of that link arguments eg thesis firstly, on the other hand

Response

to respond to an artistic work

Context of artistic Words which express work Description judgements Descriptive of artistic work language Judgement

Explanation

Source: http://www.grchurstville.bmcc.education.nsw.gov.au/english_text_types.htm