Text Types

Text Type	Purpose	Structural Features	Language Features
Narrative	To entertain, amuse or instruct	Orientation complication series of events coda	Noun groups to describe characters and settings time words     Action verbs
Report	To classify and/or describe	General statement Description	Technical language, simple present tense, Generalised Terms
Recount	To retell a  series of events	Orientation sequence of events	Descriptive language, past tense, Time words to connect events, Words which tell us where, when, with whom, how

Procedure	To instruct someone how to do something	Goal material or equipment steps	Verbs usually at the beginning of each instruction Words or groups of words which tell us how, when, where, with whom
Explanation	To explain how or why something occurs	Phenomenon identification Explanation sequence	Technical language Use of words such as because, as a result, to establish cause and effect sequences
Exposition	To persuade by arguing one side of an issue	Thesis        Arguments Reinforcement of thesis	Words that qualify, eg usually, probably Words that link arguments eg firstly, on the other hand
Response	to respond to an artistic work	Context of artistic work          Description of artistic work Judgement	Words which express judgements  Descriptive language