"What do you know about Explanation Text?"

    Explanation Text is a text that is used to explain the way or process of something happening, especially those related to natural phenomena, the scientific world or the socio-cultural world. An explanation is written to explain how and why something in the world happens. It is about actions rather than about things. Explanation text serves to explain the process and causes of an event or thing in detail. An explanation text usually comes from questions related to why and how to an existing phenomenon.

    It can be concluded that the purpose of Explanation Text is to explain the processes the process that occurs in the formation of something or activities related to natural, social, scientific, cultural, and other phenomena that aims to explain why and how this happened. 

• The generic structure of an Explanation Text consists of: 

1. General Statement, that is the introduction of an event that we will tell. Or general explanation about the event. In the general statement contains a general explanation of phenomenon to be discussed, can be an introduction to the phenomenon or the explanation.
2. Sequenced Explanation,  that is an explanation of why and how the event occurred. In this section the author can write more than one paragraph. Sequenced explanations contain explanations of the process why these phenomena can occur or are created. Sequenced explanations are in the form of answers to the author's why and how questions when creating an explanation text. Sequenced explanations can consist of more than one paragraph.
3. Closing or Concluding Statement, that is the conclusion or conclusion of the story. Actually closing is not listed in the generic structure of explanation text, but most people think that the last paragraph of an explanation text is closing, even though it is a part of sequenced explanations which contains the final steps described in the sequenced explanations section.
     

• The social function of Explanation Text is used to describe how and why a certain phenomenon happens.

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• Example

Super moon

A super moon happens when the full moon coincides with the moon's closest approach to Earth in its orbit. Super moons make the moon appear a little brighter and closer than normal, although the difference is hard to spot with the naked eye. 

The moon's orbit around the Earth is not a perfect circle. It has an average distance of 238,000 miles (382,900 km) from Earth, but its apogee and perigee — the closest and farthest approaches from Earth — change every lunar month. In its circulation around the earth, the distance between the moon and the earth is not the same from time to time because the moon orbits the earth in an ellipse position. So a time of the month can experience in its furthest position from the earth called apogee position and the moon can also experience in nearest position called perigee position. When the moon is full and in Perigee’s position, the moon will appear bigger and lighter, and at that moment the moon is said to be Super moon phase where the surface of the moon will appear 14% larger and 30% brighter in view earth.

To be able to enjoy the phenomenon of Super moon, you have to find a place with minimal lighting. The darker place you visit, the more obvious of the Super moon will look. 

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