Generic Structure

Generic Structure

• Thesis: announcement of issue of concern
• arguments: reasons of concern, leading to recommendation
• Recommendation: statement of what ought or ought not to happen

Significant Lexicogrmmatical features

• Focus on generic human and non human participants, except for speaker or writer referring to self
• Use of

1. Mental processes : to state what writer thinks or feels about issue e.g. realise, feel, appreciate
2. Material processes; to state what happens e.g. is polluting, drive, travel, spend, should be treted.
3. Relational Processes: to state what is or should be e.g. doesn't seem to have been is.
4. Use of simple present tense

Note that Hortary Exposition goes by several different names, including argument and persutio, in various sources. we prefer martin's (1985) original term. Hortatorye Exposition differs from analytical Exposition in that the latter argues that X in the case,