REPORT TEXT

1. What is report text means…

A report text is a type of text that announce the result of an investigation or announce
something. The information given in a report text is very general information or is a text
which presents information about something. It is as a result of systematic observation and
analysis.
2. The purpose of recount text
Social function of report text is to present information about something generally to
the reader or to presenting information about something. They generally describe an entire
class of things, whether natural or made: mammals, the planets, rocks, plants, countries of
region, culture, transportation, and so on.
3. Language features of report text
 Use of general nouns, eg hunting dogs, rather than particular nouns, eg our dog;
 Use of relating verbs to describe features, eg Molecules are tiny particles;
 Some use of action verbs when describing behaviour, eg Emus cannot fly;
 Use of timeless present tense to indicate usualness, eg Tropical cyclones always
begin over the sea;
 Use of technical terms, eg Isobars are lines drawn on a weather map;
 Use of paragraphs with topic sentences to organise bundles of information;
repeated naming of the topic as the beginning focus of the clause.

4. The Structure of report text

 General classification: Stating classification of general aspect of thing; animal, public
place, plant, etc which will be discussed in general
 Description: Describing the thing which will be discussed in detail; part per part ,
customs or deed for living creature and usage for materials
Example :
AURORA
Aurora is a natural phenomenon that resembles a beam of light burning in the
lining of the ionosphere of a planet as a result of the interaction between the planet’s
magnetic field is owned by the charged particles emitted by the Sun (solar wind). Aurora
in the rush by many people to take some pictures, because Aurora including beautiful
natural phenomena and stunning.
On Earth, auroras occur in the area around the North Pole and South magnetic
poles. Aurora that occurs in the northern region known as the Aurora Borealis. This is
because in Europe, the aurora often looks reddish in the northern horizon as if the sun
will rise from that direction. Aurora borealis is always going on between September and
October, March and April. The phenomenon of the aurora in the south, known as
Aurora Australis has similar properties, but sometimes the aurora appears at the top of
the mountain in a tropical climate.
Aurora results from the emission of photons in the Earth’s atmosphere, above
80 km (50 miles), of the ionized nitrogen atom regains electrons, and atomic oxygen
and nitrogen from the excited state back to the ground state. They are ionized or excited
by collisions of solar wind and magnetospheric particles are channeled and accelerated
down along the Earth’s magnetic field, the excitation energy is lost by the emission of
photons, or by collisions with atoms or molecules.
Oxygen is unusual in terms of return to the ground state, it can take three-
quarters of a second to emit green light and emit up to two minutes for the red. Collision
with another atom or molecule will absorb the excitation energy and prevent emissions.
Due to the very top of the atmosphere has a higher percentage of oxygen and rarely
distributed such collisions are rare enough to allow time for oxygen to emit red.
Collisions become more frequent advanced into the atmosphere, so that the red
emission do not have time to occur, and eventually even the green light emission is
prevented.
This is why there is a color with a height differential, red oxygen at high altitude
dominates, then the oxygen and nitrogen blue green / red, and finally nitrogen blue /
red when the collision preventing oxygen from emitting anything. Green is the most
common of all the aurora. Behind it is pink, light green and red mixture, followed by
pure red, yellow (mixture of red and green), and lastly pure blue.
In northern latitudes ,the effect is known as the aurora borealis (or the northern
lights ),named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora , and the Greek name for the
north wind ,Boreas ,by Pierre Gassendi in 1621.Its southern counterpart , the aurora
australis (or the south lights), has almost identical features to the aurora borealis and
changes simultaneously with the changes in the northern auroral zone and is visible
from high southern latitudes in Antarctica , South America and Australia.

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