Hortatory Exposition Text

Exposition HORTATORY TEXT UNDERSTANDING
 

Concise Oxford Dictionary mentioned in, Hortatory including adjectives (adjective) means "tending or Aiming to exhort" ("tend or aims to encourage / urge others to do something"). While the Exposition means "a comprehensive description and explanation of a theory" ("Explanation and elaboration of a comprehensive theory").

So in the language, if concluded, is a hortatory exposition text that describes a theory / problem in a comprehensive manner with the aim of encouraging others to do / not do something.

 

STRUCTURE OF GENERIC HORTATORY Exposition

Generic Structure, or the general arrangement of hortatory exposition is as follows:


A. Thesis / General Statement

Thesis / statement contains a general opening statement on the topic of discussion. As an example we will discuss about the dangers of smoking, thesis statement that we can use for example:

"Smoking can cause cancer, heart attacks, and impotence."

2. arguments

Arguments, "Opinion" contains further discussions of the thesis statement in detail. It would be better if the argument was not only contains the personal opinions of the authors, but also may contain the opinions of experts. Referring to the example of smoking thesis statement above, we can make supporting arguments with more detail, for example:

Argument 1: I thought the heart attack suffered by the director of PT. LaptopButut, sir "XXX", due to the intensity of smoking more than drinking water. (To be developed further in this paragraph)

Argument 2: It has been widely proven that smoking has almost become a major cause of cancer. (Continue to develop this paragraph)

Argument 3: The Impotence of a boss "XXX" in town "XXX" is mentioned because of the habit of smoking before bed. (continue to expand again this paragraph)

3. Recommendation.

Recommendation / suggestion contains advice writers on the topic of discussion. If you talk about the dangers of cigarettes, pal dong would know what to recommend?