Procedural text is very common. It tells you how to complete a task and explains how to complete a process or gives us instructions for doing something. It is designed to describe how something is achieved through a sequence of actions or steps, which enable the reader to achieve the goal.
A recipe and an instruction booklet are both examples of procedural text. With a recipe, it is going to give you all the ingredients that you need to say, bake cookies, and it is going to tell you the process for baking those cookies. It is going to say, “Insert one cup of sugar into your bowl and then pour for cups of flour into your bowl.” Then it might say to mix it all up and add some other ingredients. Then, it will say something like “Bake for 15 minutes.” If you follow all the steps, at the end you will have cookies, because this recipe told you how to complete the task of baking cookies.
The instruction booklet, if you have ever had something kind of complicated to put together, there was an instruction booklet to tell you how to do it. It might say “Step one: take everything out of the box.” There would be a step two that might say “Attach part A to part B.” the steps would go on.
After you completed all of the steps, you will have a piece of equipment that is fully put together.
Generic Structure of Procedural Text:
Goal
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It contains the purpose of the text. (E.g.: How to make Spaghetti.)
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Material or ingredients
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It contains of the material that used in the process. (E.g.: the material to cook omelet are egg, onion, vegetable oil, etc.)
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Step
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It contains of the step to make something in goal. (E.g.: First, wash tomatoes, onion… Second, cut the onions becomes slices ….)
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Result
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It is the result of completing the steps.
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The Characteristics/Language Feature of Procedural Text:
1Use adverbial of sequence / Using temporal conjunction (E.g.: First, second, third, the last, finally, ….)
2Use command / imperative sentence (E.g.: Put the noodles on the …, Wash the tomatoes….)
3Using action verbs
4Using Simple Present Tense
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJi46PON668&t=32s
