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Factual Report

A factual report presents factual information about a class of things without interpretation. It generally describes the thing in detail using common generic structures like general classification to state what will be discussed and description to describe each part. Linguistic features commonly used include simple past and present tenses. For example, a report on mangoes may generally classify them as a popular tropical fruit, then describe the tree, leaves, taste, nutrients, shapes, colors, and uses through history.

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Factual Report

A factual report presents factual information about a class of things without interpretation. It generally describes the thing in detail using common generic structures like general classification to state what will be discussed and description to describe each part. Linguistic features commonly used include simple past and present tenses. For example, a report on mangoes may generally classify them as a popular tropical fruit, then describe the tree, leaves, taste, nutrients, shapes, colors, and uses through history.

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FACTUAL REPORT

1. What is factual report?


Factual reports is Something that is factual concerned with facts or contains facts, rather
than giving theories or personal interpretations

2. What is the social function?


Social function/social purpose factual report is presenting information about something.
They generally describe an entire class of things, Whether natural or made: Mammals, the
planets, rocks, plants, countries of region, culture, transportation, and so on.

3. What is generic structures?


A report text also has two common structures [generic structure], there are :
1) General Clasification »
Stating classification of general aspect of thing; animal, public place, plant, etc which
will be discussed in general.
2) Description »
Describing the thing which will be discussed in detail; part per part , customs or deed
for living creature and usage for materials

4. What are the linguistic features used in a factual report?


Most of linguistic features used in a factual report is simple past tense (s + was/were + V2)
and simple present tense (s + to be + V1)

Example of report text

Mangoes are one of the most popular tropical fruits in the world. They are grown in
the tropical regions of the world. (General Clasification )
Mango tree grows more than 5 meters. It has many branch and the leaves are long
and slender. The taste of mango are sweet and sometimes it is little sour. Mangoes are
delicious food which is rich of vitamin A and C. Mangoes have many shapes sometime it is
oval, round or like kidney. It colors are green or yellow. Mangoes pulps are juicy and have
yellow color. Mangoes are eaten fresh or we can make it as many variety of food such as
preserve, juice and etc. Mangoes are cultivates about 4000 years ago in the Indonesian
archipelago. (Description)

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