Descriptive Text

1. Definition ( Definisi)       
 The text that tells you about how something looks, sound, and taste. It mostly about the visual experience but you can also find the descriptive text in the other perception.
The other definition : text that tells about the real object description, so that the reader can feel what the writer see, touch, and smell.
We can describe so many things like place, things, human, film and other things in this world.

2. Purpose or social function ( Tujuan)
 To describe something spesificly .

3. Generic structure ( Susunan Umum)
    a. Identification (Identifikasi). 

•  Contains an introduction about something that you want to describe.

        Example  : Have you ever been visited a place where you can see and enjoy beautiful views there? Have you ever felt so crazy with that place because of it's beautiful panorama?
( The red word is the description about the place). 
  
    b. Description

•  Contains the description of the object. It tells you about the location, the most beautiful place, the famous landmark, the citizens.

         Example  : Geology Museum is one of museums in Bandung City. It has a collection ancient things from a hundred thousand years ago, like skull of Megantrophus Paleojavanicus, stalaktit, stalakmite, and also a rare stone in the world.
( The red word is the location and the interesting things in Geology Museum).

4. Language Features
     Descriptive text usually uses be and have.
Tense which is often used is Simple Present Tense. However, sometimes it uses Past tense if the thing to be described doesn't exist anymore.
The formula of present tense
Positive      : S + V1 (s/es)
Negative    : S + DO/DOES + NOT + V1
Question    : DO/DOES + S + V1

Positive     : S + be + adj/adv
Negative    : S + be + NOT + adj/adv
Question    : be + S + adj/adv

Actually descriptive text and report text is similar. But they have some differences. Do you want to know? ^-^

1.  Descriptive text contains a specific information about the object that you want to describe. But report text contains a general information that you want to report. 

            Example : Descriptive text : My cat, Momo.(Spesific, with the name of the cat)
                              Report text        : Cat (The general cat)
     2.   Descriptive text is produced by your own or the writer's senses and experience .
           But report text is produced by some research first.

Do you already know about descriptive text? If you already know, so you can directly practice make the descriptive text. We will guide you and tell you the tips how to make a good descriptive text?
Here they are:

1. Find the topics
2. Read the topics
3. After that, make a list about the information that you think it's very important as your source.
4. Through your article and focus only to your list.
5. Start to write the identification and continue it with the description.
6. Remember! Add some adjective in every noun in your descriptive text. It will make your description more interesting to read.

To make you more understand on how to make a good descriptive text. We provide you some example of descriptive text.
Here they are: