About Explanation

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Explanation About Explanation Text

• This text contains a process that deals with social phenomena, nature, science, technology development, cultural development, and so on. explanation relates to the question answering "Why" and "How" Against a related phenomenon.

The Purpose Of Explanation Text

• The purpose is to explain the text explanation of a phenomenon that occurs

Generic Structure of Explanation Text

• “General statement” :stating the phenomenon issues which are to be explained.

• “Sequenced explanation” :stating a series of steps which explain the phenomena .

• "Closing“ :is part of the final text explanation and must be related to the topic that is told .

Linguistic Feature Of Explanation Text

Characteristic linguistic explanation text :

• Use the simple present tense• Use abstrac noun• Use the passive voice• Use action verbs

Explanation Text is used to explain the occurrence of a phenomenon, example :

• Text explanation of why corruption happens

• Text explanation about why the island was very famous

• Text explanation of how coffee powder was made

• Text explanation in how the human body’s metabolic processes, etc.

Example of Explanation Text

The Occurrence of Rainbow

Spectrum of the rainbow is an arc that took place because of the refraction of sunlight by drops of water. Rainbow is also regarded as an optical and meteorological phenomenon in the form of colorful light are parallel to each other in the sky or other medium. Rainbow appears as an arc of light at the end leads to the horizon at a moment of light rain. Rainbow can also be seen around the waterfall clear.

Rainbow and other light effects in the sky caused by light refracted and deviated away from the particles. At sunset, the sky reddened by the sun passing through the atmosphere is much thicker than when the sun is high in the sky at noon. Rainbow will not be visible at night or when the weather is overcast. It happened because the rainbow is the result of the refraction of light. At first light of the sun passes through a drop of rain, then steered or refracted toward the middle of the drops of rain that separates white light into the colors of the spectrum.

Rainbow can only be seen when the sun shines along with the rain but from the opposite side to the viewer. The position of the observer must be between the sun and the water was impressed with the sun behind the person. The sun, the eye of the observer and the center of the arc of the rainbow should be in a straight line. Light with the shortest wavelength such as purple, located on the curve and have the longest wavelengths like red are on the outside.

Identification of text

Generic Structure of Explanation Text

• General statementSpectrum of the rainbow is an arc that took place because of the refraction of sunlight by drops of water. Rainbow is also regarded as an optical and meteorological phenomenon in the form of colorful light are parallel to each other in the sky or other medium. Rainbow appears as an arc of light at the end leads to the horizon at a moment of light rain. Rainbow can also be seen around the waterfall clear.

• Sequenced explanationRainbow and other light effects in the sky caused by light refracted and deviated away from the particles. At sunset, the sky reddened by the sun passing through the atmosphere is much thicker than when the sun is high in the sky at noon. Rainbow will not be visible at night or when the weather is overcast. It happened because the rainbow is the result of the refraction of light. At first light of the sun passes through a drop of rain, then steered or refracted toward the middle of the drops of rain that separates white light into the colors of the spectrum.

Rainbow can only be seen when the sun shines along with the rain but from the opposite side to the viewer. The position of the observer must be between the sun and the water was impressed with the sun behind the person. The sun, the eye of the observer and the center of the arc of the rainbow should be in a straight line. Light with the shortest wavelength such as purple, located on the curve and have the longest wavelengths like red are on the outside.

Linguistic Feature Of Explanation Text

• Use the simple present tense• Rainbow appears as an arc of light at

the end leads to the horizon at a moment of light rain. Rainbow can also be seen around the waterfall clear.

• Use abstrac noun• At sunset, the sky reddened by the

sun passing through the atmosphere is much thicker than when the sun is high in the sky at noon.

• Use the passive voiceRainbow and other light effects in the sky caused by light refracted and deviated away from the particles.

• Use action verbs• . The sun, the eye of the observer

and the center of the arc of the rainbow should be in a straight line.

Question :

• What the purpose of the text ?• When occurrence of the rainbow ?• Why during the night did not happen

rainbow?

Answer • The Occurrence of Rainbow• Rainbow can only be seen when the sun

shines along with the rain but from the opposite side to the viewer. The position of the observer must be between the sun and the water was impressed with the sun behind the person.

• Rainbow will not be visible at night or when the weather is overcast. It happened because the rainbow is the result of the refraction of light.