Exposition Text

Exposition is a text that elaborates the writer’s idea about the phenomenon surrounding.

Purposes:

  1. To persuade the readers that idea is important matter. 

   2. To persuade the readers or listeners that there is something that, certainly, needs to get attention

    3.      To analyze a topic and to persuade the reader that this opinion is correct and supported by arguments

Generic Structures:

      1.      Thesis (Introduction): Introducing the topic and indicating the writer’s position

    2.      Arguments (Body): Explaining the arguments to support the writer’s position.

    3.      Reiteration (Conclusion): Restating the writer’s position.

Language Features:

      1.      Using relational process = Relationships between and among leaders, workers, followers, partners, co-workers, etc. people knowing and caring about people.

      2.      Using external conjunctions = Enhancing by linking to real world events (Holocaust, the Final Solution, death trains) 
3.      Using internal conjunction = Elaborating and itemizing steps in an argument (Firstly, secondly, next, finally) 
4.      Using causal conjunction = the cause of an event, because

  5. Using contrastive conjunction = but, nevertheless 
6. Using simple present tense = Bruno is quiet boy

   7.      Focusing on generic human and non-human participants, e.g.: car, pollution, leaded petrol car

     8. Using passive sentence

Example 

Tsunamis

Thesis》

Tsunamis are a series of powerful and destructive waves. Tsunami is the deadliest wave because the wave speed is incredibly fast. 

Body》
They are normally caused by earthquakes, landslides, or volcanic eruptions in, or close to an ocean. After some sort of underwater disturbance, this causes energy to rise up to sea level pushing the water high into the air. Gravity kicks in and pulls it down again and then consequently causing the water to filter out into many different directions.
When a tsunami begins to approach the shore the energy in the wave is compressed. As a result, the water is pushed up into the wave, resulting in a powerful tsunami.

Conclusion》
So, tsunamis happen because of natural disasters such as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. People who live near the shoreline have to be careful because they are threatened by tsunamis whenever there is an earthquake.