Definiton

Purpose
Explanation
Generic
Text Structure
Language
Features

Example
 Explanation is a text that
Do you know the explains the social, natural,
meaning of scientific and cultural
Explanation Text? phenomena.
Purpose of the text is to explain processes in
the formation or activities assocciated with
the natural/social/cultural phenomena.
 In the general statement, the writer
General introduces and explains the general
Statement explanation of the phenomenon that will be
discussed in the text.

Sequence In the sequence of the events, the writer

of The explains about why and how related to the
Events phenomenon. This part of the text can
contain more than one paragraph.
 Closing part is not listed in the generic
structure of the Explanation Text. However,
Closing sometimes the last paragraph of the
explanation text looks like closing; it is
actually a part sequence of the events.
It uses Simple Present Text

It uses Action Verbs

It uses Passive Voice

It uses Abstract Noun (no visible

noun)
 General
Structure
Tsunami
In Indonesia, we are very familiar with the word "Tsunami". This natural
disaster has ever killed thousands of lives in Banda Aceh a few years ago. A general
Indonesia mourned, the world mourned. Then, how the Tsunami happens? Here statement
is a brief explanation of the process of how the Asian tsunami happens.

Tsunami can occur if there is a phenomenon which causes the displacement

of large amounts of water in the ocean, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, A sequenced
landslides, and meteors that fall to Earth. However, 90% of tsunamis is the result of the events
of underwater earthquakes.

Vertical movement in the Earth's crust in the bottom of the ocean causes a
sudden up or down movement of sea floor which then causes the water balance
disorders above it. This disturbance causes the occurrence of the flow of the
massive sea water energy, that once it reaches the shore, it becomes huge waves
resulting Tsunami. Closing