Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Discussion

Tujuan : mengetengahkan suatu masalah (isu) yang ditinjau paling tidak dari dua sudut pandang, sebelum sampai pada suatu kesimpulan atau rekomendasi.

Ciri-ciri teks discussion:
1. Menggunakan general noun untuk menyatakan kategori, misalnya school rules are necessary.
2. Menggunakan relating verbs untuk memberikan informasi tentang isu yang didiskusikan, misalnya school rules are necessary.
3. Menggunakan thinking verbs untuk mengungkapkan pandangan pribadi, misalnya believe, think.
4. Menggunakan additives, contrastives, dan casual connectives untuk menghubungkan argument, misalnya on the contrary.
5. Menggunakan detailed noun groups untuk memberikan informasi secara padu, misalnya a long list of rules and regulations.
6. Menggunakan modalities, misalnya it will arise chaos.
7. Menggunakan adverbials of manner, misalnya very well, unnecessarily, efficiently, fairly.

Struktur teks discussion.
1. Issue: isu
2. Arguments for: pendapat yang mendukung
3. Arguments against: pendapat yang menentang.
4. Conclusion/recommendation: kesimpulan/ saran.

Contoh teks:
Many people argue if school rules are necessary or not
Some people believe that school rules are necessary. In their opinions, school without any rules will raise chaos. If there were no rules for moving around the school, there would be ‘student-jams’ every time the change of the lessons. Pupils will not wear their uniforms with pride, damaging the school in the eyes of the local community. Times for using the library or club rooms will not exist, and no one will know when they were available.
On the contrary, some people argue that school rules are unnecessary. Students are almost adults. They know very well how they should behave. Their parents have taught them good habits and, they were younger, their parents punished them if the misbehaved. There is no need, these people say, for a long list of rules and regulations
This picture of freedom is misleading. As teenagers, students don’t need silly rules that tie them down unnecessarily, but they do need a framework within which the school can operate efficiently and fairly. Let’s keep our rules. They are good for us.

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