REFLECTIVE SUMMARY M6 LA2

We have learned application letter stores pond to job vacancies. Now, please write anything you have learned in the journal entry below.

Learning Materials

The learning materials in this activity will be divided into two main sections: Key Features of the Text and Meaning Making Task. Study them carefully and do each of the tasks that follows.

Key Features of Report Texts 

Report Texts

Social Function

To describe the way things are, with a reference to a range of natural, man-made, and social phenomena in our environment.

Generic Structure

·      General Classification: tells what the phenomenon under discussion is.

·      Description: tells what the phenomenon under discussion is like in terms of:

o  Parts (and their functions)

o  Qualities

o  Habits or behaviours, if living; uses, if non-natural

Significant Lexico-grammatical Features

·      Focus on generic participants

·      Use of relational processes to state what is and that which it is

·      Use of simple present tense (unless extinct)

·      No temporal sequence

(Gerot, L., & Wignell, P. (1994). Making sense of functional grammar.

Meaning Making Tasks

This section is divided into two parts. The first part, Getting to Know Report Texts, includes a number of Tasks in which you will be guided to analyse (1) the social functions, (2) the text structures, and (3) the lexicogrammatical features of report texts from three different contexts of situation. The second part, Constructing Report Texts. In this part you will write some report texts to address the social functions, the text structures, and the lexico-grammatical features.