Name : Rio Septa Ardhana

NPM : 19420082
Class : Writing 3B

Topic of Discussion : Genre (definition, kinds, and pairs of text).

A. DEFINITION
1. Genre is used to refer to particular text-types, not to traditional varieties of literature. It is a type
or kind of text, defined in terms of its social purposes; also the level of context dealing with
social purpose. Genre is a category of cultural. It can be thought of as staged, goal-oriented
social process which is followed by all writers or speakers in their production of any text.
2. Genre are how things get done, when language is used to accomplish them. They range from
literary to far form literary forms: poems, narratives, expositions, lectures, seminar, recipes,
manuals, appointment making, service encounters, news broadcast and so on. The term genre
is used here to embrace each of the linguistically realized activity types which comprise so
much of our culture
3. Use genre to read and write—to interpret, manage, construct, and negotiate various types of
text—and that our use of genre is mediated by our understanding of form, our affiliations with
communities, and our involvement in contexts doesn’t explain the specific ways that genres
“operationalize” typified activities, to use Russell’s (1997) term, particularly when the activities
under consideration are reading and writing.
4. A literary genre is a category of literary composition. Genres may be be determined by
technique, tone, content, or even lenght. The distintctions between genres and categories are
flexible and loosely defined, often with subgroups. Many books contain elements from different
genres.
5. Genre, as referring to generally unchanging regularities in conventions of form and content,
usually with reference to literary works, allowing readers to identify, for example classes of
work such as poetry, fiction, and drama….Such classification of text has extended as well to
prescriptive classification in school writing and thus the familiar categories of exposition,
description, argumentation, and narration

B. KINDS
1. Story genre, consists of six genres; they are narrative, news story, exemplum, anecdote, and
recount, spoof.
2. Factual genre, is divided into procedure, explanation, report, exposition, and discussion,
description, review.

C. PAIRS OF TEXT
A. SOCIAL FUNCTION
1. STORY GENRE

STORY GENRE SOCIAL FUNCTION

Narrative To amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or various experience in
different ways.
News Story Factual text which informs readers events of the day which are
considered newsworthy or important.
Exemplum To dealt with incidents that are in some respects out of the usual, point
to some general value in the cultural context.
 Anecdote To share with others an account of an unusual or amusing incident.
Recount To retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.
Spoof To retell an event with a humorous twist.

2. FACTUAL GENRE
FACTUAL GENRE SOCIAL FUNCTION

Prosedure To describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of

actions or steps.
Explanation To explain the processes involved in the formation or workings of natural
or socio-cultural phenomena.
Report To describe the way things are, with reference to arrange or natural,
manmade and social phenomena in our environment.
Exposition To persuade the reader or listener that something is the case.
Discussion To present (at least) two points of view about an issue.
Description To describe a particular person, place or thing.
Review To critique an art work or event for a public audience.

B. SCHEMATIC STRUCTURE
1. STORY GENRE

STORY GENRE SCHEMATIC STRUCTURE

Narrative Orientation, evaluation, complication, resolution, reorientation.
News Story Newsworthly event (s), background event (s), sources.
Exemplum Abstract or synopsis, orientation, incidents (s), judgement (s),
reorientation
Anecdote Abstract, orientation, crisis, reaction, coda.
Recount Orientation, events, reorientation.
Spoof Orientation, event (s), twist.

2. FACTUAL GENRE
FACTUAL GENRE SCHEMATIC STRUCTURE

Prosedure Goal, materials, step 1-n.

Explanation A general statement to position the reader, a sequenced explanation of
why or how something occurs.
Report General classification, description (parts, qualities, habits or behavior (if
living); uses (if non-natural).
Exposition Thesis, arguments, reiteration/summing up.
Discussion Issue, arguments for and against or statements of differing points of
view, conclusion or recommendations.
Description Identification, description.
Review Orientation, interpretative recount, evaluation, evaluative summation.