What is Manual ?
Have you ever read any procedure text? Or have you ever heard about a manual? Do you know the function of manual? Now, please watch this video.
Observe the following video
After watching the video answer the
following question.
1.
What is the woman
doing?
2.
What is appliance used?
3.
Do she success to cook
the rice using rice cooker? Why or Why not?
Based on the video above, do you know what
is manuals?
Manuals is a kind of procedure text that tells about how something works, how something operates through the sequences of steps or how to use something.
b. Social Function of Manual as A Type of
Procedure Text
The purpose of procedure texts is Procedure Text aims to provide instructions on how the steps or advanced methods are in making, operating or doing something. It also shows how something is done through a sequence of steps that allows the reader or actor to achieve his goals. One example to show this Procedure Text, when we want to make something using Photoshop from a computer, of course, we need the right steps, so that the tool can function. Next, please read carefully samples of procedure text below.
The followings are the social function of
procedure text:
· 👉 To
avoid an accident
· 👉 To
avoid damage
· 👉 Unnecessary waste
c. Generic Structure of procedure text; manuals
1)
Goal/aim
It contains the
purpose how to use or operate
something.
2)
Parts/Tools
This part describes the elements we
need to use or operate something.
3)
Steps
This part describes the set of instructions.
d.
Language
feature of procedure text
-
Using
simple present tense.
- Using imperative
sentences (plug in the cable, click the link, etc.)
- Using action verbs such
as; open,
plug in, click, switch etc.
- Using conjunction.
