Procedure Text

PART 1

What is the procedure text?

Procedure text is a text that explains or helps us how to make or use something. Its social function is to describe how something is completely done through a sequence of steps. The communicative purpose of this text is to describe how something is made through a sequence of actions or steps. There are three generic structures in the procedure text. The first is goals or purposes. The second is the materials or tools. The third and the last are steps or methods. To know the text that we read is a procedure or not is so simple. You can read the title if the title is started with ‘how to make…’ or ‘how to use…’ it can be certainly defined that the text is procedure text.

Definition of Procedure Text

There are three definitions of procedure text :

(1)Texts that explain how something works or how to use instruction/operation manuals e.g. how to use the video, the computer, the tape recorder, the photocopier, the fax.

(2) Texts that instruct how to do a particular activity e.g. recipes, rules for games, science experiments, road safety rules.

(3) Texts that deal with human behavior, e.g how to live happily, how to succeed

Generic Structure of Procedure Text

# Goal : (e.g: How to make …………..)

# Material or Ingredient : (e.g: the material to cook omelet are egg, onion, vegetable oil, etc. )

# Step : (e.g: first, wash the tomatoes, onion, …., the second cut the onions becomes slice. . . )

Purpose of Procedure Text

– To explain/tell (the reader) how to make/operate/do something through a sequence of actions or steps.

– To explain steps/instruction to make/operate/do something

Language Feature of Procedure Text:

– Use adverbial of sequence / Using temporal conjunction (e.g: first, second, third, the last)

– Use command / imperative sentence (e.g: put the noodles on the . . ., cut the onion. . ., wash the tomatoes.

– Using adverbials (Adverbs) to express detail the time, place, manner accurately, for example, for five minutes, 2 hours, etc.

–Using action verbs, e.g: make, take, boil, cook

– Using Simple Present Tense

For example:

How to make fruit icy

Materials :

• Mango
• Avocado
• Sugar water
• Milk
• Ice
• Apple
• Strawberries
• Grape
• Jackfruit

Steps :

• First, cut the fruit round or dice.
• Then, scratching the flesh of a melon.
• Then, boil sugar with water until cooked for about 30 minutes.
• Next, put in serving glasses that have been cut round pieces or dice.
• Then, to taste pour the sugar water, put ice cubes, and put milk on ice fruit.
• Last, put the decorations on the glass with a piece of strawberry on it.

PART 5

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New Item

 PART-1

Definition

INFORMS READERS ABOUT THE EVENT OF THE DAY IT IS NEWSWORTHY OR IMPORTANT.

GENERIC STRUCTURE NEWS ITEM TEXT

- Main event

- Elaboration

- Resource of information

Purpose

TO INFORM/ PRESENT INFORMATION TO THE READERS ABOUT NEWSWORTHY OR IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE DAY

LANGUAGE FEATURES NEWS ITEM TEXT

•Simple language

•Saying vebs: she said/ told/etc

•Begin with the place

•Past tense

•Story captured 

•Adverbs time, place, manner

•materials processes to tell the events

PART-2

News Item Text 

TO INFORM THE READERS, LISTENERS, OR VIEWER ABOUT EVENTS OF THE DAY WHICH ARE CONSIDERED NEWSWORTHY OR IMPORTANT. 

GENERIC STRUCTURE

1. NEWSWORTHY EVENTS

RECOUNT THE EVENT IN SUMMARY FORM. 

2. BACKGROUND OF EVENTS

ELABORATION OF WHAT HAPPEN

3. SOURCES

COMMENTS BY PARTICIPANTS IN WITNESSES TO AND AUTHORITIES EXPERT ON THE EVENT.

LANGUAGE FEATURES

1. SHORT, TELEGRAPHIC INFORMATION CAPTURED IN HEADLINE

2. USE ACTION VERBS TO RETELL THE EVENTS 3. USE SAYING VERBS (SAID, TOLD, ETC)

EXAMPLE

PART-3

NEWS ITEM FROM MEDIA

-Main Event

Controversial School Assignment Asks Students Who Is „Deserving‟ Of Life: A Homosexual Pro Athlete Or Black Medical Student? An Ohio middle school has apologized for an assignment that asked students to hypothetically save people‟s lives depending on their race, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

-Elaboration

The assignment, which was given out by an unidentified teacher at Roberts Middle School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, instructed students to examine a list of 12 people selected to fly on a spaceship to another planet to avoid the Earth‟s destruction. However, due to the ship‟s space limitation, students must cut four people, ranking the list into “most deserving” and “least deserving” of life. According to Miller‟s Facebook page, parents raised their concerns to the school on Aug. 20. On Thursday, Todd M. Nichols, superintendent of Cuyahoga Falls City Schools, released a statement: “They were just made aware of the situation and are investigating,” according to local news station WOIO. “This paper divides,” she said. “It doesn‟t pull anybody together.” And parent Denise Petron asked of the teacher, “What did he expect to get out of this?” On Facebook, Miller confirmed that the assignment was part of a seventh-grade math class and that parents had reached out to the city councilman as a “last resort” after their complaints went unanswered by the school. In the comments section of Miller‟s post, parents reacted. “I‟m honestly having a hard time believing that anyone thought this was appropriate to give to kids,” wrote one person. 

-Source

The assignment was also slammed as “very disturbing,” age-inappropriate, and a poor example of traditional ethical projects that encouraged critical thought. “Liberal or conservative, thinking about how damning your kids‟ answers could be if the teacher didn‟t agree with their viewpoints,” wrote someone.

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