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Procedure Text

1. What is the procedure text?


Procedure text is a text that explains or helps us how to make or use something.
Its social function is to describe how something is completely done through a
sequence of steps. The communicative purpose of this text is to describe how
something is made through a sequence of actions or steps. There are three
generic structures in the procedure text. The first is goals or purposes. The
second is the materials or tools. The third and the last are steps or methods. To
know the text that we read is a procedure or not is so simple. You can read the
title if the title is started with ‘how to make…’ or ‘how to use…’ it can be
certainly defined that the text is procedure text.
2. Definition of Procedure Text
a. Texts that explain how something works or how to use instruction/operation
manuals e.g. how to use the video, the computer, the tape recorder, the
photocopier, the fax.
b. Texts that instruct how to do a particular activity e.g. recipes, rules for
games, science experiments, road safety rules.
c. Texts that deal with human behavior, e.g how to live happily, how to
succeed
3. Generic Structure of Procedure Text
a. Goal : (e.g: How to make …………..)
b. Material or Ingredient : (e.g: the material to cook omelet are egg, onion,
vegetable oil, etc. )
c. Step : (e.g: first, wash the tomatoes, onion, …., the second cut the onions
becomes slice. . . )
4. Purpose of Procedure Text
a. To explain/tell (the reader) how to make/operate/do something through a
sequence of actions or steps.
b. To explain steps/instruction to make/operate/do something
5. Language Feature of Procedure Text:
a. Use adverbial of sequence / Using temporal conjunction (e.g: first, second,
third, the last)
b. Use command / imperative sentence (e.g: put the noodles on the . . ., cut the
onion. . ., wash the tomatoes.
c. Using adverbials (Adverbs) to express detail the time, place, manner
accurately, for example, for five minutes, 2 hours, etc.
d. Using action verbs, e.g: make, take, boil, cook
e. Using Simple Present Tense

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