HORTATORY EXPOSITION

HORTATORY EXPOSITION

Hortatory exposition is a text to persuade the people that something or should not be the case.

Social Function

To persuade the reader that something should or should not be the case

Text structure

Thesis: announcement of issue of concern

Arguments: reasons for concern, leading to the recommendation

Recommendation: statement of what ought or ought not to be happened

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features

Focus on generic human and non-human participants, except for speaker or writer referring to self

Use of Material Processes: to state what writer thinks of feels about issue e.g. realize, feel, appreciate

Material Processes: to state what happened e.g. is polluting, drive, travel, spend, should be treated

Relational Process: to state what is or should be e.g. doesn’t seem to have been is

Use of simple present tense

Example :

Why you should eat breakfast

A lot of people, especially young people, go through the day without having breakfast. Many people believe that it is not necessary, or they say that they don’t have time for that, and  begin  their  day  with  no  meal. Everyone should  eat  breakfast before going to their activities. The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of breakfast, especially for students.

The first reason why you should eat breakfast before going to school is for your health. When you skip breakfast and go to school, you are looking for a disease because it’s not healthy to have an empty stomach all day long.  It’s very important to have a meal and not let your stomach work empty. All you are going to get is gastritis and a lot of problems with your health if you don’t eat breakfast.

Another reason for eating breakfast is because you need food for to do well in your classes. You body and your brain are not going to function as good as they could because you have no energy and no strength. When you try to learn something and have nothing  in  your  stomach,  you  are  going  to  have  a  lot  of  trouble  succeeding.  A  lot  of people think that they should not eat because they are going to feel tired, but that’s not true. Breakfast is not a very big meal, and on the contrary, you’re going to feel tired if you don’t  have  breakfast    

            The last reason to have breakfast every day is because you can avoid diseases if you eat some breakfast in the morning. If you don’t eat, you are going to get sick, and these diseases will have a stronger effect on you because you’re going to get sick easier than people who have breakfast every day.

You have to realize that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and you cannot  skip  it  without  consequences  for  your  health,  your  school  and  your  defense mechanism. It is better to wake up earlier and have a good breakfast that run to school without eating anything. It is time for you to do something for your health, and eating breakfast is the better.