A 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. To strengthen the explanation, the speaker or writer needs some arguments as the fundamental reasons of the given idea. 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.
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
Language Features:
· The use of emotive words (e.g. worried, alarmed etc)
· The use of words that qualify statements (e.g. usual, probably etc)
· The use of words that link arguments (e.g. firstly, However, therefore etc)
· The use of compound and complex sentence
· The use of modals and adverbs (e.g. may, must, should, etc)
· The use of subjective opinions using pronouns I and we
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