Text Hortatory Exposition. (Teks Persuasi)

Ciri Umum

a. Tujuan Komunikatif Teks:
Teks yang mengemukakan alasan-alasan dengan tujuan untuk membujuk pendengar atau pembaca agar mau mengikuti apa yang dikemukakan penulis.

b. Struktur Teks:
· Thesis, yaitu menuliskan opini penulis tentang suatu masalah.
· Argumen, yaitu alasan-alasan yang mendukung pendapat penulis.
· Recommendation atau menuliskan saran atau nasihat

c. Ciri Kebahasaan menggunakan:
· General nouns, misalnya ads, favourite programmes, dsb.
· Abstract nouns, misalnya nuisance, dsb.
· Technical verbs, misalnya species of animals, dsb.
· Relating verbs, misalnya It is important, dsb.
· Action verbs, misalnya should be stopped, dsb.
· Thinking verbs, misalnya we think TV station, dsb
· Modal verbs, misalnya We are writing, dsb.
· Modal adverbs, misalnya especially, we, dsb.
· Connectives, misalnya Finally, secondly,dsb.
· Bahasa evaluatif, misalnya important, valuable, trustworthy, dsb.

Contoh Teks hortatory dalam bentuk surat:

A letter to TV Station


Dear Editor,
We are writing to complain about ads on TV. There are so many ads, especially during our favourite programmes. We think they should be stopped for a number of reasons.

First, ads are nuisance. They go on for a long time and there are so many. Sometimes there seems to be more ads than programmes.Second, ads are bad influence on people. They try to encourage people to buy unhealthy food like beer, soft drink, candy and chips. And they make people want things they do not really need and can not.Finally, the people who make ads have too much say in what programmes people watch. That is because they want to put all their ads on popular programs that a lot of people watch. Some programmes which are not so popular get stopped because they do not attract enough ads, even though those programmes may be someone’s favourite.

For those reasons, we think TV station should stop showing ads. They interrupt programmes. They are bad influences on people, and they are sometimes put a stop to people’s favourite shows. We are sick of ads, and now we mostly watch other channels.