ARGUMENTATION

GENRE	SOCIAL FUNCTION/PURPOSE	GENERIC STRUCTURE	GRAMMAR FEATURES
Analytical Exposition	To persuade that something is in the case	·    Thesis ·    Argumentation ·    Reiteration	·      Focus on generic human and nonhuman participants ·      Use of simple present tense ·      Use of internal conjunctions to state argument ·      Reasoning through causal conjunction or nominalization
Hortatory Exposition	To persuade that something should /should not be in the case	·    Thesis ·    Argumentation ·    Recommendation	·      Focus on generic human and nonhuman participants ·      Use of simple present tense ·       Use of mental (thinks, feels, about issue), material (what happens),and relational (what should, etc) processes
Discussion	To present, at least, two points of view about an issue	·    Issue ·    Arguments ·    conclusion	·  Focus on generic human and nonhuman participants ·  Use of mental (thinks, feels, about issue), material (what happens),and relational (what should, etc) processes ·  Use of passive voice ·  Use of comparative, contrastive, and consequential conjunctions
Review	·          To critique an art work/event for public audience ·         To review certain product for commercial purpose	·    Orientation ·    Interpretive recount ·    Evaluation ·    Evaluative summation	·  Focus on particular participants ·  Qualitative and affective mental processes ·  Use of elaborating and extending clause and group complexes to package the information ·  Use of metaphorical language