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Definition of Procedure Text: How To Make A Cup of Coffee

There are three generic structures found in procedure texts: (1) the goals or purposes, (2) the materials or tools needed, and (3) the steps or methods. Procedure texts explain how to make or use something through a sequence of steps. Their purpose is to describe how something is completed by listing the materials and then the individual actions in order. Examples of procedure texts include recipes, rules for games, and instructions for using devices or completing tasks.

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Definition of Procedure Text: How To Make A Cup of Coffee

There are three generic structures found in procedure texts: (1) the goals or purposes, (2) the materials or tools needed, and (3) the steps or methods. Procedure texts explain how to make or use something through a sequence of steps. Their purpose is to describe how something is completed by listing the materials and then the individual actions in order. Examples of procedure texts include recipes, rules for games, and instructions for using devices or completing tasks.

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rocedure text is a text that explains or helps us how to make or use something.

Its social function


is to describehow something is completely done through a sequence of series. Communicative
purpose of this text is to describe how something is made through a sequence of actions or steps.
There are three generic structures in procedure text. The first is goals or purposes. The second is
materials or tools. The third and the last are steps or methods. To know the text that we read is
procedure or not is so simple. You can read the title if the title is started with ‘how to make…’ or
‘how to use…’ it can be certainly that the text is procedure text.

Definition of Procedure Text

There are three definition about procedure text : (1)Texts that explain how something works or
how to use instruction / operation manuals e.g. how to use the video, the computer, the tape
recorder, the photocopier, the fax. (2) Texts that instruct how to do a particular activity e.g.
recipes, rules for games, science experiments, road safety rules. (3) Texts that deal with human
behavior, e.g how to live happily, how to succeed

Generic Structure of Procedure Text

# Goal : (e.g : How to make spaghetti)


# Material or Ingredient : (e.g : the material to cook omelette are egg, onion, vegetable oil, etc. )
# Step : (e.g : first, wash the tomatoes, onion, …., second cut the onions becomes slice. . . )

Purpose of Procedure Text

– To explain/tell (the reader) how to make/operate/do something through a sequence of actions


or steps.
– To explain steps/instruction to make/operate/do something

Language Feature of Procedure Text:

– Use adverbial of sequence / Using temporal conjunction (e.g: first, second, third, the last)
– Use command / imperative sentence (e.g : put the noodles on the . . ., cut the onion. . ., wash
the tomatoes. . . )
– Using adverbials (Adverbs) to express detail the time, place, manner accurate, for example, for
five minutes, 2 hours, etc.
– Using action verbs, e.g : make, take, boil, cook
– Using Simple Present Tense

Examples of Procedure Text

HOW TO MAKE A CUP Of COFFEE


MATERIALS AND INGEDIENTS :
–2
spoons of sugar
– one
spoon of coffee powder
– hot
water
– a cup
–a
spoon

PROCEDURE :
1. Prepare two spoons of sugar, a cup, hot water, one spoon of coffee powder, a spoon.
2. Put one spoon of coffee powder into the cup.
3. Pour some hot water into the cup.
4. Add 2 spoons of sugar into a cup of coffee
5. Stir it well and the hot coffee is ready to drink

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