Hartatory Exposition Text

Corruption

Thesis

                        Do you know what the meaning of corruption is? What is the relation between  money and corruption? Well, corruption is common everywhere in the world

Argument 1

                        As most people know, Tanjung Priok port smuggling is not a new thing at all. Entrepreneurs who want to minimize their tax payments tend to do. They even bribe the officials.

Argument 2

                        Well, I think the measures taken so far to overcome the problem by punishing the corruptors is still not far enough. We have to prevent the younger generations from corruption.

Recommendation

                        I believe we should start at the earliest stages in school and I think everyone should be involved in the effort to eradicate corruption. We must not make any distinction

Hartatory Exposition

-          Social function

To persuade the reader or listener that something should or should not be the case

-          Generic structure

·         Thesis

Announcement of issue of concern

·         Argument

Reasons for concern, leading to recommendation

·         Recommendation

Statement of what ought or ough not to happen

-          Significant lexigrommatical features

·         Focus

On generic human and non human participants. Except for speaker or writer referring to self

·         Use of

§  Mental processes        : to state what writer thinks of feel about issue

e.g.realize, feel, appreciate

§  material proesses       : to state what happens

e.g. is polluting, drive, travel, should be trated

§  relational processes    : to state what is or should be

e.g. doesn’t seem to have been

·         Use of simple present tense