Scoring System

Hello Aksello...long time no see you...

Here, I just wanna tell you about the scoring system in your hortatory exposition text that have you written before. I will give you the feedback of your hortatory exposition then.

You may download the scoring system in writing based on Analytic scale for rating composition tasks (Brown & Balley, 1984, pp 39-41)
 

 

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Aksel: Hortatory Exposition Task

Hello Akselo, how are you there? I hope all of you are fine.... Here I wanna remind you about our last task, it was about hortatory exposition text. (Thank you for the students who have made your blog)....

Format in posting your article (in order to make it easily to be read) should be:
1. Please add the word "Acc:1" in front of your title, so the title will be
   Acc:1 The danger of global warming (example)
   Acc:1 The importance of eating fruits (example)

2. Then after posting your article, don't forget to give your comment to others article.
    The comment should consist of:
     - Grammar (good, enough, not good and why? give your reason and the evidence)
     - Punctuation (good, enough, not good and why? give your reason and the
        evidence)
     - Sentence pattern, structure (good, enough, not good and why? give your
        reason
        and the evidence)
     - Content (should consist of thesis, argument, and recommendation) how the
       correlation between each paragraph? give your reason. Is it suitable with the title
       or not?

3. Try to give your comment to the article that have not consisted of 2 comment
    (maximal 2 comment for each article) so automatically all of you will get two
    comment too from others.

OK....Let's write and thank you....have a nice day....

    

Aksel : What should your comment be?

Akselo, thank you for your cooperation to make your blog on time...here the rule that you should do is making a good comment. What should you write in your comment is about :
1. Content (kejelasan isi, argumen yang jelas)
2. Urutan (language feature)
3. Grammar, sentence structure, spelling and punctuation and the others part have been discussed in previous article in this blog. Thank you....

...Example of Hortatory Exposition Text...Corruption....

 

Do you know what the meaning of corruption is? What is the relation between money and corruption? Well, corruption is common everywhere in the world, even in the United States. It’s just a matter of intensity. However, it is quite shocking when one reliable survey claims Jakarta as the most corrupt place in Indonesia.

For instance the survey has made me sad, actually, because I stay and earn a living here in the capital. As most people know, Tanjung Priok port smuggling is not a new thing at all. Entrepreneurs who want to minimize their tax payments tend to do such a thing more often. They even bribe the officials.

Well, I think the measures taken so far to overcome the problem by punishing the corruptors is still not far enough. We have to prevent the younger generations from getting a bad mentality caused by corruption.

I believe we should start at the earliest stages in school and I think everyone should be involved in the effort to eradicate corruption. We must not make any distinction.

Adapted from: The Jakarta Post, February 2005

Pictures of Hortatory Exposition

Melihat betapa susahnya pendidikan di Indonesia, siapakah yang harus bertanggungjawab, give your suggestion in your hortatory exposition text!

Pertama kali melihat ni gambar udah pasti langsung kepikiran, makan apa ini orang mpe tubuhnya segede gitu....ayok rame2 kasih saran buat nih orang....itung2 dapet pahala yah....

Lagi puasa gini eh yang dipampang malah gambar es krim, but bukan ini yang Aksel maksud kok, ini gambarin tentang bumi kita, sebagai murid teladan, selain cepat sigap harus cepat tanggap pula. Mari kita selamatkan bumi kita, jangan di makan yach....

Nah looo beneran ngucapin selama berpuasa loh dari Aksel, tapi......kriuk kriuk,,,,,nih perut gag mau kompromi,.....ooopss.....guys....have you idea how i can "silent" this voice....heheh maksudnya biar Aksel bisa puasa lancar gt....thank you....

Haduuhhh aneh2 ajah pejabat jaman sekarang.....bukannya sibuk sampein aspirasi rakyat (operator kalee) eh malah sibuk jadi tikus negara (red).....ayo bersama Aksel kita berantas korupsi.....

Pak guru seram amat sih, amat aja ga seram seram lo.....gimana nih biar lulus ujian dengan nilai yang bagus yach....how can I pass my exam well? Aksel give me your suggestion please???

Qualify Statement

The use of words that link arguments is important in writing hortatory exposition. It can make your writing clearly enough, the words that link arguments are:

Time/Rate of occurrence	Never, rarely, seldomly, once in a blue moon, occasionally, sometimes, often, next to always, always, without fail
Conditional	Only, except, if, on the condition that, provided that
Order	Before, after, first, second, third, final, last
People	Women, men, male, female, professional
Negative	Non-, un-, not, no
Quantity	Surpassing, over, under, few, too much, too little, not enough
Supporting/Refuting	Anti-, but, yet, however, on the other hand, with this, in favor of
Possibility	May, might, could, potentially, possibly, probably, must, certainly
Importance	Necessary to, need to, ought to, have to
Comparison	More ... than, bigger, smaller
Additional info	Further, in addition, also, as well
Time/Rate of occurrence	Never, rarely, once in a blue moon, occasionally, sometimes, often, next to always, always, without fail
Conditional	Only, except, if, on the condition that, provided that
Order	Before, after, first, second, third, final, last
People	Women, men, male, female, professional
Negative	Non-, un-, not, no
Quantity	Surpassing, over, under, few, too much, too little, not enough
Supporting/Refuting	Anti-, but, yet, however, on the other hand, with this, in favour of
Possibility	May, might, could, potentially, possibly, probably, must, certainly
Importance	Necessary to, need to, ought to, have to
Comparison	More ... than, bigger, smaller
Additional info	Further, in addition, also, as well

Linking Arguments Words

There are some linking argument words that you may use in writing hortatory exposition. You can use them as your guidelines addition to make a good hortatory exposition text, check this out!!!

1. First of all, I think …
2. Not only that, but I also think that …
3. Not only are they …, they are also …
4. They are not …, nor are they …
5. There are various/several/many reasons for this.
6. First, … / Firstly, …
7. Second, … / Secondly, …
8. Moreover, … / Furthermore, … / In addition, …
9. Another significant point is that …
10. Finally, …
11. On the one hand, … On the other hand, …
12. In contrast to this is …
13. Because of …
14. That is why …
15. After all, …
16. The reason is that …
17. In that respect …
18. The result of this is that …
19. Another aspect/point is that …
20. It is because …
21. Although it is true that … it would be wrong to claim that …
22. That may sometimes be true, but …
23. One could argue that …, but …

In writing hortatory exposition, you may also use some words that connect it to provides some example, for example:

1. Take for example (the case of) …
2. Look at …
3. For instance … / For example …
4. Let me give you an example.

In the last statement or maybe in the middle of the text, maybe you have some addition argument or statement. Addition statement can be applied by using some words, there are:
 

1. Most probably …
2. It appears to be …
3. It is important to mention that...
4. As I already indicated …
5. In other words, …
6. I am most concerned about …
7. I should like to repeat once again that …
8. I should like to emphasise that …
9. I would (just) like to add …
10. So all in all I believe that...
11. (In) summing up it can be said that …
12. Weighing the pros and cons, I come to the conclusion that …

 
 
 
 

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Music for You

I personally think learning English through music and songs can be very enjoyable. You can mix pleasure with learning when you listen to a song and exploit the song as a means to your English progress. Some underlying reason can be drawn to support the idea why we use songs in language learning.

Firstly, “the song stuck in my head” Phenomenon (the echoing in our minds of the last song we heard after leaving a restaurant, shopping malls, etc) can be both enjoyable and sometimes unnerving. This phenomenon also seems to reinforce the idea that songs work on our short-and-long term memory.

Secondly, songs in general also use simple conversational language, with a lot of repetition, which is just what many learners look for sample text. The fact that they are effective makes them many times more motivating than other text. Although usually simple, some songs can be quite complex syntactically, lexically and poetically, and can be analyzed in the same way as any other literary sample.

Furthermore, song can be appropriated by listener for their own purpose. Most pop songs and probably many other types don’t have precise people, place or time reference.

In addition, songs are relaxing. They provide variety and fun, and encourage harmony within oneself and within one group. Little wonder they are important tools in sustaining culture, religion, patriotism and yeas, even revolution.

Last but not least, there are many learning activities we can do with songs such as studying grammar, practicing selective listening comprehension, translating songs, learning vocabulary, spelling and culture.

From the elaboration above, it can be concluded that learning through music and songs, learning English can be enjoyable and fun.

Example of Hortatory Exposition with the genre of the text

A Campaign of the Importance of Reading

Thesis:

Reading habit is poor among Indonesians because most people haven’t realized the importance of reading

Hortatory Exposition

A Hortatory exposition is a type of spoken or written text that is intended to explain the listeners or readers that something should or should not happen or be done. To strengthen the explanation, the speaker or writer needs some arguments as the fundamental reasons of the given idea. In other words, this kind of text can be called as argumentation. Hortatory exposition text can be found in scientific books, journals, magazines, newspaper articles, academic speech or lectures, research report etc. Hortatory expositions are popular among science, academic community and educated people. The generic structure of hortatory exposition usually has three components: