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Writing Section of Hortatory Exposition Text

Firstly, I'd like to say thank you to all of you who have opened this website. Before you start learn, i'd like to says some information about this session, such as:
A.    Standard Competency

Reveal meaning in text form hortatory exposition essay in the context of daily life.
B.     Basic Competency

4.2. Reveal the meaning and rhetorical steps in essay writing using a variety of language accurately, fluently and acceptable in the form of text Exposition Hortatory.
C.     Indicators

-     Formulate the main idea for the hortatory exposition text.
-     Determine rhetorical steps in essay with form hortatory exposition.
-     Elaborating the main idea
-     Produce the hortatory text.
 D.    Purposes of Study

With work individually with pair discussion students can:
-     Formulate the main idea for the hortatory exposition text.
-     Determine rhetorical steps in essay with form hortatory exposition.
-     Elaborating the main idea 
-     Produce the hortatory text.
E.     Character Value
-     Honesty
-     Discipline
-     Hard Work
-     Creative
-     Democratic 
-     Responsibility 

Learning Material
HORTATORY EXPOSITION
1.      DEFINITION
It is a kind of text type that presents arguments or reasons to support the opinion. It is aimed to persuade the readers or listeners that something should or should not be the case. The difference of analytical and hortatory exposition is on the term of its generic structure in the last part that is called as reiteration in analytical and recommendation in hortatory exposition. The function of both is quite different. In analytical exposition, reiteration is used to give emphasize on the writer’s opinion by restating point of view. While in hortatory exposition, recommendation is used to give advice or such a suggestion to the readers to make a choice by considering the presented arguments. In short the purpose of hortatory exposition text is to argue a case for against a particular position or point of view and it purposes a suggestion in the end of the argumentation. Some examples of hortatory exposition are: Editorial, letter to the editor, and letter to a politician.
2.      GENERIC STRUCTURE
The generic structure of hortatory exposition is:
1.  An Introductory Statement   : It consists of the author’s point of view (thesis), preview of the arguments that will follow in the next section, and a question or emotional statement to get audience attention.
2. A series of arguments to convince the audience: This part is significant to support about the thesis. Therefore, it needs some requirements. They are explained as follow;
-  A new paragraph is used for each argument
-  Each new paragraph begins with topic sentence
-  After topic sentence comes the details to support the arguments
-  Emotive words are used to persuade the audience into believing the author.
3. Recommendation: statement of what should or should not happen or be done based on the given arguments.
3.      LANGUAGE FEATURES
Common grammatical patterns in hortatory exposition include:
-  Abstract nouns, e.g. culture, etc.
- Action verbs, e.g. value, etc.
- Connectives, e.g. first, second, etc.
- Modal auxiliaries: Should, ought to, had better 
(Adopted from LKS Kreatif Bahasa Inggris Kelas XI Tahun 2014)
 
and about another information about hortatory exposition text you can visit:
http://www.belajarbahasainggris.us/2014/02/hortatory-exposition-text-penjelasan.html
http://www.englishdirection.com/2008/03/text-types-complete-overview.html
for the examples you can visit:
http://www.englishdirection.com/2011/01/kumpulan-lengkap-contoh-hortatory.html


In this page you will find 3 steps of learning process. There are pre-writing, make list of ideas, and the last is develop the ideas. Now, let's take a look at part 1

Step 1
What do you know about hortatory exposition text???
Well, here is the explanation ::

Step 2
Please make a list of main ideas of your arguments about global warming! (at least 2 ideas)

Step 3
Please develop your idea become hortatory exposition text!

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