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The Difference Between Report and

Descriptive Text
I have a short post discussing the differences between report and descriptive text. However
some comments are still intentionally proposed to ask what is report text, what is descriptive
text and how they differ from each other. I believe they are good to build the better
understanding about the variety of text types. The comments which are given in responses for
some example of particular text types really attract me, especially who make note whether
some texts given as the example belong to report or descriptive. As stated in the previous
posts, both descriptive and report present the caught picture of some thing for other. Both
descriptive and report text functionally describe things, what and how they are.
The Information Report is classifying and describing general classes of phenomena. While
Factual Description is describing a particular living, non-living or natural phenomenon.
portals.aisnsw.edu.au has more complex explanation. Descriptive reports give information
about something; they describe what something is or does. They characteristically use
technical terms and present tense, and they build technicality through noun groups. The
structure of a descriptive report is General statement followed by Description.
We can make it sure as Descriptive text. But if the thing which is described in the text just the
representative of the whole group of the thing mentioned, we can judge it as Report Text.
Well there is not easiest way to see the difference between report and descriptive text since a
text is possibly built from several types of text. Frequently, a text is combined from several
genres. However taking a look at the participant of the text is very helpful to define whether
the text belongs to report or descriptive. The particularity of the participant is a key to see the
difference between report and descriptive.

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