English Session !!

All About Report Text.
Definition : Report is a text which presents information about something, as it is. It is as a result of systematic observation and analysis

Structure :

1. General Clasification; The General statement which explain the report of the subject, the additional explanation, and the classification ;
2. Description: tells what the phenomenon under discussion ; in terms of parts, qualities, habits or behaviors; 

Social Function :

• Its social purpose 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.

Differences between Report Text and Descriptive Text :

• Report text will explain or retell about the thing in general which it's so general in this world, like horses, elephants, houses, batiks, etc
  
• Descriptive text will describe about a thing which there is just one in this world, like Donny The Pet, Jlamprang Batik, etc.

Example of Report Text :

Batik

Indonesia has many traditional fabrics, one of them is batik. Batik is originally coming from Indonesia. Every region which has batik has own characteristic.

Batik divided into two kinds. Batik cap, batik which made by printed design using special modern tools. The second one is batik tulis which made by drawing the design using a tool named canting manually directly on the fabric without any modern tools.

The price of batik is also different. Usually batik this has more expensive price than batik cap because of the difficulty in producing it. Making batik tulis is more complicated. We have to make it carefully and it needs longer time than producing batik cap. Batik cap just prints the design with the tools. After that the both have the some processes.

Batik has different characteristic in each region. For instance, batik Pekalongan has differences with batik from Kalimantan, Solo, and others although it just differ in shape of lines. Usually it describes or symbolizes its region.

Now days, batik is not an ancient thing to wear. Batik become popular in fashion with modern touch. And Indonesia needs to be proud of batik because batik is confessed as a cultural heritage of the world by UNESCO.