Explanation Text about Natural Phenomena

Explanation Text about Natural

Phenomena
Objectives
Basic Competence: Responding to the meanings and rhetorical ways in an essay by
using an accurate, fluent, and acceptable writing style in daily social contexts in forms
of: narrative, spoof, and hortatory exposition.

Learn about it!

You will learn more about the explanation text, especially the ones related with natural
phenomena in this lesson. Moreover, you will learn to comprehend the messages
conveyed in the text.

EXPLANATION TEXT ABOUT NATURAL PHENOMENA

As you have probably learned earlier, an explanation text is a kind of text that
aims to describe how something happens or why it is made. An explanation text
actually is almost the same as procedure text; but there are essential differences
between those two. For starters, the purpose of those kinds of text: the explanation text
tends to explain, while the procedure text is intended to show the way of how to make
something.
Moreover, an explanation text provides you the information about some issues that are
interesting or important for people to know about. In general, the aim of an explanation
text is to explain how something forms or why that happens; it explains the sequence,
cause, or theoretical understanding of a phenomenon or an event. Thus, the text will
cover the answer of "how" or "why" relating to the topic being discussed. An explanation
text is organized with the generic structure of a general statement and a sequence of
explanations, alongside the closing.
There are diverse topics that an explanation text can cover. Usually, it covers the topics
related to science, phenomena, and also social, for instance about why certain social
phenomena happen, how to conduct an experiment, or how natural phenomena occur.
Here are some common elaborations in an explanation text:
 Sequential explanation: This describes the stages of an event such as the
sequence from cocoon to butterfly.
 Causal explanation: This describes what causes the change from one stage to
the next such as why earthquakes occur.
 Theoretical explanation: This describes the possible phenomena behind a
natural or created process.

Keypoints
As shown above, an explanation text, particularly the ones that explain natural
phenomena, is the kind of text that tells the reader about the reasons and the process of
something natural happening. The generic structure is the same as other kinds of
explanation text, which are general statements, sequenced explanation, and also
closing.