Report text functions to provide factual information about general characteristics of a certain thing, living or non-living thing. Information Reports classify and describe the phenomena of our world. This text is different from Descriptive text, which functions to give detail informations about a certain thing but not for generalizing it. This kind of text is used almost in every subject at school, so the competence to make or to understand this kind of text is an important part to develop the literate competence of the students at school. As the result, the teaching of this text does not only influence on the English literate development at school but also in other languages, even in their mother language.
The generic structure of a Report text is :
- General Classification : tells what the phenomenon under discussion is.
- Description : tells what the phenomenon under discussion is like in terms of - parts (and their functions)
- qualities
- habits or behaviours, if living; uses, if non-natural
