This document provides information on the genre of news reports. It explains that a news report summarizes newsworthy or important events of the day. It describes the generic structure of a news report, which includes describing the newsworthy event, providing background details on what happened and what caused the incident, and including comments from participants, witnesses, and authorities. The document also provides some language features commonly found in news reports, such as the use of headlines, action verbs, saying verbs, passive sentences, past tense, and focusing on circumstantial meanings.

1. GENRE BASED WRITING
Created by.
Risnu Laila A.

2. Inform
readers, listeners, or
viewers about events of Social function
the day which are
considered newsworthy
or important

3. Generic structure
Newsworthy event; tells the event in a
summary form.
Background event; elaborate what
happened, tell what caused the incident.
Sources; comments by
participants, witnesses, authorities, and experts
involved in the event.

4. information on the use of
LANGUAGE
headlines
FEATURE
the use of action verbs
the use of saying verbs
the use of passive
sentences
focus on circumstantial
meanings
the use of past tense

5. title
CAIRO – Archaeologists have unearthed 57 ancient
Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden
sarcophagus with a mummy inside, Egypt’s Supreme Council of
Antiquities said Sunday.
The oldest tombs date back to around 2750 B.C., during
the period of Egypt’s first and second dynasties, the council said in
a statement. Twelve of the tombs belong the 18th Dynasty, which
ruled Egypt during the second millennium B.C. The 18th Dynasty
includes such well-known pharaohs as Tutankhamen, Akhenaton and
Queen Hatshepsut.
The discovery throws new light on Egypt’s ancient
religions, the council said.

6. GENRE BASED WRITING