Purpose of the Text

What is the purpose of the text?
Every text has a purpose to make  the reader know the objective or aim of the text. There are many kinds of genre of the texts. They are narrative text , recount text, report text,  descriptive text, procedure text,  spoof, anecdote, discussion of the text, etc. For the many genres, there are many different purposes of the text.

A text has purposed to make a reader catches the aim of the text.There are many written text that is not following the purpose of the text. Because of without purpose, it can be called bad text. The reader will be confused in reading this text.  And actually, it can make the reader difficult searching the information of the text.  The text will be ambiguous that has many different information.

The following description, there are the purposes of the text;

The purpose of narrative text        : to entertain or amuse the readers or listeners.
The purpose of recount  text        : to retell the past event or past experience in chronological sequence.
The purpose of report text             : to describe something in general.
The purpose of  descriptive          : to describe a particular thing. It can be places, things, or person.
The purpose of  procedure            : to explain / tell how to make something, to explain the way or process making  and using something or certain devices.
The purpose of  news item            : to inform the readers or listeners of the events in details, for example  of something that was happened such as accidents or incident.
The purpose of  explanation           :   to explain the readers to understand the processes of something happen, such as the cultural phenomena or social, etc.
The purpose of  analytical exposition :   to put forward a viewpoint about something.
The purpose of  hortatory exposition :   to persuade the readers to agree with the point of view from writer.
The purpose of  discussion                 : to give arguments or opinions from issue and point of views.
 The purpose of  announcement          : to announce or give a formal written notice of certain events or activity
The purpose of  letter                            : to give information about something or to use communication tools through written symbols
The purpose of advertisement            : to advertise a product or to promote an idea to persuade the reader to buy or use the products.


The purpose  of the text is very important in the text. If there is a text that is not mentioned the kind of the text, and we will know the name of the text based of the contents that is followed by the purpose. Example, Abi writes a story about their experience when He went to Lombok last holiday,  suddenly the teacher asked about the type of the text. So that, from reading Abi's story other students could answer that is a recount text because Abi told about his experience in the past. As we know that the purpose of recount text is retell the past event or past experience in chronological sequence.

Well... The texts have their own purposes, they are not only giving information, but also give the purpose  to the reader. The written text are not just the line of words or phrase, it includes the meaning that makes the reader take the conclusion.

 Regard,


Miss Tita