EXPLANATION TEXT

- ANTONIUS KRISTANTO (02)

- FATAH RACHMAT RAMADHAN (09)
- NANDA SYAHPUTRA (20)
- AURELYA NEISYA H (32)
WHAT IS EXPLANATION ?

EXPLANATION IS A TEXT WHICH TELLS PROCESSES

RELATING TO FORMING OF NATURAL, SOCIAL,
SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL PHENOMENA.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF EXPLANATION?

AN EXPLANATION IS WRITTEN TO EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY SOMETHING

IN THE WORLD HAPPENS. IT IS ABOUT ACTIONS RATHER THAN ABOUT
THINGS.
EXPLANATION PLAY A VALUABLE ROLE IN BUILDING AND STORING
OUR KNOWLEDGE. TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC WRITING ARE OFTEN
EXPRESSED IN THIS FORM.
GENERIC STRUCTURE OF EXPLANATION

 General statement; stating the phenomenon issues which

are to be explained.
 Sequenced explanation; stating a series of steps which
explain the phenomena.
 (Closing); atually this is not mentioned in explanation
text, however, many people think that the last of
paragraph is clossing, in which it is actually part
of sequenced explanation
LANGUAGE FEATURE

 Featuring generic participant; sun, rain, etc

 Using chronological connection; to begin with, next, etc
 Use the conjunctions of time and cause
 Using passive voice pattern
 Using simple present tense
 Using the noun phrase
 Using the complex sentence
 Using the technical language
EXAMPLE

WHAT IS SNOW ?
Snow is water in the form ice crystals. Ice crystals from when the temperature
drops below 32 degrees fahrenheit. The crystal is formed by water vapor in turning
into ice. It then turns into a snow crystal or snowflake or snow pellet.
HOW SNOW HAPPENS ?

Snow begins from water vapor that gathered in the Earth’s atmosphere. A bunch of water
vapor then cools to the point of condensation (the point at which the gas turns into liquid or
solid form), then coagulates and form clouds. At the beginning of forming the clouds, its mass
is smaller than the mass of the air, so the clouds float in the air. But, once the water vapor
continue to gathered in the clouds, its mass also increases. So, at some point the air can no
longer hold it mass. Then, the clouds broke and the water particles fall to the earth.
The water particles that fall is pure water (not contaminated by other particles). The pure
water doesn’t freeze directly at the 0 degree of Celcius, to make the pure water freeze required
lower temperature than 0 degree of Celcius. However, low temperature doesn’t enough to
form snow. The particles of pure water need to contaminate with other particles in the air that
will make the freezing process faster. Then, the pure water will turn into ice crystals.The
contaminated particles that involve in this process called nucleator, not only has function to
make the freezing process faster but also to tied the water vapor. So, the water particles
(contaminated one) that gathered with the other water particles will form bigger ice crystals.
These ice crystals that fall to earth which we call snow. Snow has a unique structure because
there is no snow crystal that has the same shape, just like our fingerprint.