Task : Expository Text

EXPOSITORY TEXT

Expository writing is a type of writing where the purpose is to inform, explain, describe, or define the author's subject to the reader. In many social activities, hortatory is applied for writing recommended thought, sales letter, advertising, speech campaign, and news advertorial.

The creator of an expository text can not assume that the reader or listener has prior knowledge or prior understanding of the topic that is being discussed. One important point to keep in mind for the author is to try to use words that clearly show what they are talking about rather then blatantly telling the reader what is being discussed. Since clarity requires strong organization, one of the most important mechanisms that can be used to improve our skills in exposition is to provide directions to improve the organization of the text.

Task : Summarizing and Paraphrasing

Summarizing and Paraphrasing

A.    Summarizing

Summary writing is the one of the most effective study techniques you could ever use. An effective summary condenses a reading selection. It concentrates on the author’s main ideas and it puts those ideas in new word. Usually the goal of summarizing is shorter than the real text.

How to write a good summary ??

1.      Make sure you understood what you read.

2.      Collapse list.

3.      Use topic sentences.

4.      Get rid of unnecessary detail.

5.      Check and double check.

Task : Problem Solving

 Material of Reading Comprehension III, English Education, summarizing about proble solving, check it out !!

PROBLEM SOLVING

A.    What is Problem

Problem is “a question, matter, situation, or person is perplexing or difficult” or “any question or matter involving doubt, uncertain difficulty.”

To put in simple terms, there is a problem when we feel uncertain, dissatisfied, or upset with things, persons, or circumstances because they are either not doing what we think they should be doing or not going the way that we want or expected.

Task : Major & Minor Details

MAJOR AND MINOR DETAILS

            There are two types of supporting details in a text: Major Details and Minor Details. Not all texts have both major and minor details.

a. Major Details

General ideas that support the stated main idea of text.

• Reasons

• Points in an argument

• Points of a comparison

• Further elaboration of main idea.

Task : Cause and Effect

Campus task will never die :D

Well, ini tugas summarizing lagi, as usual, mata kuliah Reading Comprehension III, kali ini temanya patterns of organization, exactly about cause and effect, lagi kumat malasnya nih ngerjain tugas-__-") Just check it out !!

Cause and Effect

When an author discusses about cause-effect, his purpose is to  help you understand why things happen/happened and the result of certain events or actions.

This is a part of the pattern of organization details that present causes or reasons along with their effects or results. In other words, it explains why something has happened. For example, if one of your classmates ask you how you got an A+ on a subject, you might proceed to explain that you attended all classes (cause), took down every word the teacher or lecturer said (cause), read more (cause), and studied on a daily basis (cause). Here, you would using the cause and effect pattern to give the reasons why you earned such a high grade.