REPORT TEXT

REPORT TEXT

 Report Text: Understanding, Structure, and Examples

What do you mean by report text?

Report text is usually almost the same as descriptive text, because both types of text provide information or describe something.

But these two texts are different, to be able to distinguish between report text and descriptive text, it is necessary to understand the meaning of report text first.

Report text is a type of text that is in English that describes in detail an object.

Report text is written with explanations obtained from observations, research, interviews, and other studies to get facts that match reality.

 Stuktur Report Text

Report text has the following structure:

1. General classification 

The first structure of the report text is the first part that contains a variety of general information about the object to be discussed.

2. Description  

The second structure of report text has the same function as descriptive text, which is to convey a description of a more detailed object.

Features of Report Text

Report text has nine characteristics to facilitate and recognize report text.

1. Report text contains scientific facts;

2. The title of the report text is general (it can even be known and understood by all general readers);

3. Usually accompanied by images, tables, and graphs that support proving the results of the author's observations;

4. Report text sentences use simple present tense sentence patterns;

5. Report text using common nouns;

6. Using common and interconnected verbs;

7. Report text consists of discussing an object and coupled with other objects as support;

8. Report text is general, group, or group representative. Report text generally does not address individual objects;

9. Report text uses conditional logical conjunction (conditional logic hyphen), for example after (after), so (so), as long as (during), before (before), because (because), since (since), and so on.

 Example of Report Text

Komodo dragons are the largest lizards on earth. It lives in the thickets and lands of several islands in Indonesia.

Komodo dragons are the heaviest lizards in the world, weighing one hundred and fifty pounds or more.

The Komodo dragon ever measured was quite ten feet (3 meters) long and weighed 366 pounds (166 kg), but the common size of Komodo dragons in the wild was about eight feet (2.5 meters) long and two hundred pounds or 91 kg.

Komodo dragons have gray scale skin, a pointed muzzle, strong limbs, and a muscular tail. They used their keen sense of smell to find the decomposing remains of animals from miles away.

They also hunt other lizards but as large and generally barbaric mammals. Komodo dragon teeth are almost entirely coated by their gums. After eating, their gums will bleed which becomes the perfect culture (breeding ground) for virulent microorganisms  (causes of pain).

Microorganisms attached to komodo saliva cause blood diseases, or septicemia, in their victims. A Komodo dragon can bite its prey, then follow its prey until the prey is too weak to survive.