Example of Report Text with Generic Structure: Komodo

Again we are learning and analyzing an example of report text. The topic is about komodo. Do you know komodo? How does komodo live? What does komodo looks like? Answering such questions are typically writing a report text.

Report texts are objective and written after doing completed research. The data are collected from the research. That is why writing a report text actually needs much time. What we have done today is not the research, but how organized the data into meaningful report text sample.

KOMODO DRAGON

Explaining what komodo looks like is an example of report text

Do you know what is the largest lizard? This lizard is called komodo. It lives in the scrub and woodland of a few Indonesian islands.

Komodo dragon is the world’s heaviest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or more. The largest Komodo ever measured was more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighed 366 pounds (166 kg) but the average size of komodo in the wild is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) long and 200 pounds (91 kg)

Komodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful limbs and a muscular tail. They use their keen sense of smell to locate decaying animal remains from several miles away. They also hunt other lizards as well as large mammals and are sometimes cannibalistic.

The Komodo dragon’s teeth are almost completely covered by its gums. When it feeds, the gums bleed, creating an ideal culture for virulent bacteria. The bacteria that live in the Komodo dragon’s saliva causes septicemia, or blood poisoning, in its victims. A dragon will bite its prey, then follow it until the animal is too weak to carry on.

This lizard species is threatened by hunting, loss of prey species and habitat loss.

Note on Generic Structure of Report Text about Komodo

Here are the important details from the generic structure of report text about komodo. Remember you can make by yourself. The quotation is the guide to show the element of structure.

1. General classification: It is stating classification of general aspect of thing; animal, public place, plant, etc which will be discussed in generals. Today we have a topic in animal.

This lizard is called komodo.

2. Description: It is describing the thing which will be discussed in detail; part per part , customs or deed for living creature and usage for materials. What komodo looks like is described below:

Komodo dragon is the world’s heaviest lizard

Komodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful limbs and a muscular tail.

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Source:
http://animal.discovery.com/reptiles/komodo-dragon/
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/komodo-bite.htm