the existence of the Loch Ness monster [discussion text]

Apa dan bagaimana contoh tex discussion itu??
Teks discussion adalah teks yang mengemukakan tentang sebuah masalah atau isu dengan memberikan paling tidak dua sudut pandang dari isu tersebut. Terakhir, teks discussion memberikan kesimpulan atau rekomendasi terhadap isu yang dikemukakan.

Struktur dari teks discussion, yaitu:
1. Isu
2. Pendapat yang medukung
3. Ide pokok pendapat yang medukung
4. Elaborasi pendapat yang medukung
5. Pendapat yang menentang
6. Ide pokok pendapat yang menentang
7. Elaborasi pendapat yang menentang
8. Kesimpulan dan/atau rekomendasi

Contoh teks discussion:
Loch Ness Monster: Real or Hoax?

The existence of the Loch Ness monster has been debated since centuries ago.

National Exam in Pros and Cons [discussion text]

National exam becomes the hot topic in most of discussions. Though the Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the government on the organization of the national exams, the controversy over whether it is necessary to maintain the national exams (UN) has continued. Some debates include the primary questions such as; does the quality of Indonesia education depend on the national exam? will the quality of the Indonesian education system worsen without national exam?

People, who support the national exam, explain that the quality of the Indonesia education system will drop without the national exam, so they try to defend the current system.

However there are people who disagree with the opinion. Those who against this national exam kept in our high school education say that it doesn't need the national exams because the quality of education does not just depend on the national exam. Further, the national exam only measures a small portion of students' competence in specific subjects, and does not measure students' competences throughout the semester.

In fact, the national examination can still be useful as an instrument to evaluate or detect the level of students' cognitive competence in several subjects, on a national scale.

Arranged from: www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/12/19/quality-education-and-national-exams.html 

Discussion Text

Social Function

To present (at least) two points of view about an issue.

Generic Structure

1. Issue:
Statement
Preview

2. Arguments for against or statement of differing points of view:
Point
Elaboration

3. Conclusion or recommendation

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features

1. Focus on generic human and generic non-human Participants

2. Use of:
Material Processes, e.g. has produced, have developed, to feed
Relational Processes, e.g., is, could have, cause are
Mental Processes, e.g., feel.

3. Use of Comparative, contrastive and Consequential conjunctions
4. Reasoning expressed as verbs and nouns (abstraction).

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