Analytical Exposition

1.                       Analytical Exposition

(Arinda Ugang & Yuspina Margareta)

Definition of Analytical Exposition:

Analytical exposition is a tye of text that belongs to the type of argumentation text where the text contains detailed author’s thinking about a phenomenon that is around. The social function of this text is to convince the reader that the presented topic is an important topic for discussion or attention by way of arguments or the opinions that support the idea or topic.

Generic Stucture:

·         Thesis : In section thesis, the author introduces the topic or main idea that will be discussed. Thesis has always been in the first paragraph of analytical exposition.

·         Argument : The topic discussed by the author is a very important topic or need attention. In this section this section the author presents the arguments or the opinions that support the idea of the author, usually in a text. Analytical exposition have more than two arguments. The more arguments appear, the more confident the reader.

·         Reiteration : This section is always located at the end of the paragraph. Reiteration contains rewriting or replacement of ideas that contained in the first paragraph. Reiteration is also commonly called the conclusion.

Language Features:

In analytical exposition text, there are several linguistic traits as below, namely:

§   Using simple present

§  Using relational process

§  Using internal conjunction

§  Using casual conjunction