Hortatory Exposition

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. 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 communicative purpose is to persuade the readers or listeners that something should or should not be the case.

Generic Structure of Hortatory Exposition

1. Thesis : Statement or announcement of issue concern
2. Arguments : Reasons for concern that will lead to recommendation
3. Recommendation : Statement of what should or should not happen or be done based on the given arguments

Generic Features of Hortatory Exposition

1.A Hortatory exposition focuses on generic human and non human participants, except for speaker or writer referring to self.
2.It uses mental processes. It is used to state what the writer or speaker thinks or feels about something. For example: realize, feel etc.
3.It often needs material processes. It is used to state what happens, e.g. ….has polluted… etc.
4.It usually uses Simple Present Tense and Present Perfect Tense.
5.Enumeration is sometimes necessary to show the list of given arguments: Firstly, secondly …, Finally, etc

Mobile Phone

Mobile phone is one of a important thing this modern era. Do you know why ? Of course, it can help us to communicate with parents, family, friend, and the other. Mobile phone also can help us to taking pictures, record video, listen music, browse the education lesson, social media, playing games, and many more. Beside that, mobile phone also gives negative effects to people espesially to student.

Increasingly sophisticated mobile phone, increasingly there are many support facilities. That make the students to be lazy and cheat. Example, the students search the answer in the internet, answer the math question with used calculator, take the answer with used camera, used the dictionary application, sent the answer by used SMS (short massage service). Beside that, as for the other negative effects like the students see videos or pornographic pictures, and can also play a porn game. Other negative effect can cause social jealousy for students.

In the class, the students usually can’t control the use of their mobile phone. The chat all the time or browse the internet without time control. Most student tend to play with their mobile phone when they study at school. When they get bored, they will take their mobile phone to chat with their friens, play games or browse something in the internet. Even when the teacher explain the lesson, the students will just focus on their mobile phone not to the lesson. Because  that, mobile phone is don’t need to bring at school.

But not forever mobile phone give negative effects for the students, it can also give positive effects for student like  to download education lesson, compute with calculator which have many support facilities like a science log, sin, cos, tan, and others, also search the difficult word by dictionary apllication and take a picture when we have practicum to documentation. By download education file in mobile phone also can easily us to help our parent because don’t need to buy laptop or the other. Thats why mobile phone is very important to all the students.

Beside to help the student to studying in the class and finished the assignmnets, mobile phone also has a important function that to communicate with parents, family, or friends when we get accident or illness at school. Because from the experience, many students got accident and because their school prohibitted brought mobile phone, so they can’t called their parent, family, or friend. Thats why mobile phone is so important for the students in everytime.

            Therefore, the best way to resolve this problem is the students may bring any kind, type, brand mobile phones, as long as in a certain time will be conducted raids mobile phone secretly, in order to give a creepy impression to all the student, in order to mobile phone is only used for positive things which supports the learning process in the school, and not used for negative things, like disturbing the learning process, cheating, crime, and many more. And if the school find a violation will be given coaching and if the violation more heavy and be repeated, the school will be given sanction that is confiscation the mobile phone and call the parents.