INTERMEDIATE READING

“Descriptive And News Item”

Created By:

Pati Diana Putri Siregar 2120300053

Sri Juita 2220300060
Mhd Ibnu Ma’aruf Siregar 2220300027

Lecturer :

Dr. Eka Sustri Harida, M.Pd.

ENGLISH EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT

TARBIYAH AND TEACHER TRAINING FACULTY
STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY

SYEKH ALI HASAN AHMAD ADDARY PADANGSIDIMPUAN

2024
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Assalamu’alaikum warohmatullahi wabarokatuh,

Praise to be the presence of Allah SWT , who has given grace and guidance so that we
were given the opportunities to able to compile a working paper entitled "Descriptive and
News items”. This paper is structured so that readers can know what is descriptive text and
news items. The purpose of writing this paper is to fulfill assignments in the Intermediate
Reading field of study.
We are very grateful to the lecturer who has guided us in completing this paper. We also
thank all those who have shared some of their knowledge so that we can complete this paper.
We realize, the paper we write is still far from perfectness. Therefore, we really hope for
criticism and suggestions from the readers to improve our abilities.
Hopefully this paper is useful for the readers. Thankyou so much for your attention.

Wassalamu’alaikum warohmatullahi wabarokatuh.

Padangsidimpuan, 08 juny 2024

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.................................................................................................. i
TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................. ii
DISCRIPTIVE AND NEWS ITEM................................................................................. 1
A. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 1
B. DISCUSSION .......................................................................................................... 2
1. Discriptive ........................................................................................................... 2
2. News Item ........................................................................................................... 3
C. CONCLUSION........................................................................................................ 5
BIBLIOGRAPHY............................................................................................................ 6

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 DESCRIPTIVE AND NEWS ITEM

A. INTRODUCTION

There are four skills in English. They are listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Writing as a crucial skill in learning English. Writing is one of English skills that the
students must learn because by writing, students can improve their thinking skills and
help them to develop other language skill. Beside that writing has an essential role in
fostering language acquisition. Writing also belongs to productive skills. It involves
some aspects of language such as words, sentences, and large chunks of writing to
communicate.Writing is an art of expressing our thought and views.

Writing is a process organizing the idea, opinions, and feelings into written form.
It is a complex activity with the control language both of the sentence’s level
(grammatical, structure, vocabulary, punctuation, spelling, and later information) and
beyond the sentence rank (organizing and integrating information into cohesive and
coherent paragraph or text). What we want write should have something meaning to
convey.

Through writing, people are supposed to be able to express their ideas in

writing form. There are many ways to express writing and one of them is through a
text. There are many text types taught in Junior High School. Each text has different
social function, schematic structures, and language features.

Descriptive is the text describing the person, animals, thing, and place with a
clear explanation to give readers a piece of information and understanding about the
object described. Therefore, the reader can get the information about the new object
written by the writer in descriptive text, and the writers will describe the object clearly
and get a clear picture of the object. The object's explanation is essentially to make
the reader understand and get the knowledge from the text.

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 B. DISCUSSION

1. Descriptive text

Descriptive text includes descriptions of animals, people, things, and places,

among other things, an animal, a thing, or a location. The readers can imagine the
object mentioned in this. Descriptive text is made up of information about a specific
thing, such as a written description of an object. It essentially gives information on the
topic, the fact, and their actions. A descriptive text is one that gives a clear and
detailed description of an object, such as a person scenario.1

So, it can be said that this descriptive text is a text that explains about whether a
person or an object is like, whether its form, its properties, its amount and others. The
purpose of the descriptive text is clear, that is to describe, represent or reveal a person
or an object, either abstract or concrete.

Generic Structure

1. Identification: (contains about the introduction of a person, place, animal or

object will be described.)
2. Description: contains a description of something such as animal, things, place
or person by decribing its features,forms, colors, or anything related to what
the writer describe.

Purpose of Descriptive text

1. To describe person, thing or place in specific

2. To describe a particular person, thing, or place

Language Feature of Descriptive Text

1. Specific participant : has a certain object, is not common and unique (only one). for
example: Bandengan beach, my house, Borobudur temple, uncle Jim
2. The use of the adjective (an adjective) to clarify the noun, for example: a beautiful
beach, a handsome man, the famous place in jepara, etc.
3. The use of simple present tense: The sentence pattern used is simple present because
it tells the fact of the object described. 4. Action verb: verbs that show an activity (for
example, run, sleep, walk,etc...
4. Using simple present tense

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Meilina Haris Mayekti, Dinar Faiza, and Ade Chrystanty Yudha Bestari, “An Analysis of Writing Descriptive
Text At the Second Semester Students’ English Language Teaching UNU Purwokerto,” English Education,
Linguistics, and Literature Journal 1, no. 1 (2022): 30–36, http://dx.doi.

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 5. Using nouns that have corolation with people, place,etc..2

Example

Lembah Pelangi Waterfall sounds unfamiliar for either local or foreign tourists.
Lembah Pelangi Waterfall is located in Sukamaju village, Ulubelu sub district,
Tanggamus district, Lampung province, Indonesia. The access to this place is quite
difficult because Ulu Belu sub district is a remote area in Lampung with its hilly
contours which make this tourist spot elusive.

Lembah Pelangi Waterfall has two levels where the waterfall on the second level
has two branches. The height of the first level waterfall is about 100 meters, while the
second level waterfall is about dozens of meters. The best enchantment of this
waterfall is the rainbow which appears between the valley and the waterfall as the
name suggests. The soft flowing gurgling waterfall sounds is like a chant of nature
which can remove the tiredness of the long trip to go there. Under the waterfall, there
are several spots of warm water which can be an interesting spot for bathing.

In this place, you will be shown a panorama of natural beauty which is very
interesting for every pair of eyes seeing it. Rocky hills accompanied by leafy trees
will actually soothe both your eyes.

2. News item

News item is a text which informs readers about events of the day. The events are
considered newsworthy or important. News item is a type of the text that has the main
function or communicative purpose to inform readers of listeners or viewer about
events of the day that are considered newsworthy or important. The generic structure
of news item has elements as follows.3

• Headline/title: the main point to report in reduced clause.

• Summary of event: the summary of main event that is to be reported
• Background of event: the explanation about what had happened (who, what,
when, where).
• Source: someone’s about the event

Generic stucture of news item

• Main event recounts the event in summary.

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Annisa Rizki, “An Analysis Of Grammatical..., Rizki Annisaa, FKIP UMP, 2016,” 2013, 5–18.
3
Ian Hamilton, “News Item,” Advances in Dual Diagnosis 9, no. 4 (2016): 117–18, https://doi.org/10.1108/add-
02-2016-0003.

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 • Elaboration (background, participant, time, place) elaborates what happened,
to whom, and in what circumstances.
• Resource of information comments by participants in, witnesses to and
authorities expert on the event.

Social function

To inform readers, listeners, or viewers about events of the day which are considered
newsworthy or important.4

Language features of news item

• Focusing on circumstances
• Using material process
• Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
• Use of Material Processes to retell the events (in the text bellow, many of the
Material Processes are nominalised)
• Use of projecting Verbal Processes in sources stage.
• Focus on Circumstances

And also News item text is a written public information which inform to readers about
events of the day, considered newsworthy or important information. Basically, a news
item text answers the 5W and 1H questions: what, who, when, where, why, and how
relating to the newsworthy.5

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Bilqis, “The Quality of News Item Texts,” 2011.
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Noel Stocks, “News Item Text,” 2016, 1–23.

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C. CONCLUSION

From our discussion above we can conclude that:

1. Descriptive text is made up of information about a specific thing, such as a written

description of an object. It essentially gives information on the topic, the fact, and
their actions. A descriptive text is one that gives a clear and detailed description of
an object, such as a person scenario
2. The purposes of descriptive text such as
• To describe person, thing or place in specific
• To describe a particular person, thing, or place
3. News item is a type of the text that has the main function or communicative
purpose to inform readers of listeners or viewer about events of the day
4. The social funtion of news item text such as
• To inform readers, listeners, or viewers about events of the day which
are considered newsworthy or important.

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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bilqis. “The Quality of News Item Texts,” 2011.

Hamilton, Ian. “News Item.” Advances in Dual Diagnosis 9, no. 4 (2016): 117–18.
https://doi.org/10.1108/add-02-2016-0003.

Mayekti, Meilina Haris, Dinar Faiza, and Ade Chrystanty Yudha Bestari. “An Analysis
of Writing Descriptive Text At the Second Semester Students’ English Language
Teaching UNU Purwokerto.” English Education, Linguistics, and Literature Journal 1,
no. 1 (2022): 30–36. http://dx.doi.

Rizki, Annisa. “An Analysis Of Grammatical..., Rizki Annisaa, FKIP UMP, 2016,”
2013, 5–18.

Stocks, Noel. “News Item Text,” 2016, 1–23.