HORTATORY TEXT

 HORTATORY TEXT

Hortatory text is a text that contains a reason to support an opinion that readers are affected to do an act. It contains something in the hope that readers may be affected to do things in a certain way. 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. 

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. 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. 

The main purpose of this text is to persuade readers and hearers of a conversation or reading that makes readers affected to do an act and not to do deeds or to influence the reader or hearer that something the focus of the conversation should or should not happen

In this text there are 3 main structures namely:

1. Thesis (introduction of the main idea of a discussion)

2. Argumentation (opinion)

3. Recommendation (invitation of the author to perform a    

    deed yage related to thesis and argument

  Characteristics of text hortatory

1. using simple present tense 

2. every paragraph contains an argument for something to 

    talk about.

3. every paragraph is marked with the word of the temporal

    conjunction (First, second, ...) 

4. in the paragraph there are several languages ​​that serve 

    as  persuasion (Persuasive)