Kelas: X

Mata pelajaran: Bahasa Inggris

Materi: Analytical Exposition

Kata kunci: Analytical Exposition, Bullying

Pembahasan:

Analytical Exposition atau tulisan eksposisi analitis adalahtulisan yang menjelaskan dan menggambarkan fenomena di sekitar penulis. Teksskeposisi analitis ini berfungsi untuk menarik perhatian dan menganalisissebuah topik dan untuk meyakinkan pembaca bahwa pendapat penulis ini benar dandidukung oleh argumen.

Secara umum Analytical Exposition ini memiliki struktur berupa:

1.   Thesis: Memperkenalkan topik dan menunjukkanposisi penulis; berisi garis besar argumen yang akan dipresentasikan.

2.   Argument: Ini terdiri dari pint-point yangmenyatakan argumen utama.

3.   Elaboration: mengembangkan dan mendukung setiappoin pada argumen

4.   Conclusion:  penyajian kembali dan kesimpulan ulangi posisipenulis

Untuk Analytical Exposition dengan tema “bullying”contohnya adalah sebagai berikut:

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school agedchildren that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior isrepeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who arebullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.

In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must beaggressive and include an Imbalance of Power and Repetition. This means kidswho bully use their power—such as physical strength, access to embarrassinginformation, or popularity—to control or harm others. And bullying behaviorshappen more than once or have the potential to happen more than once.

Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreadingrumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from agroup on purpose.

There are three types of bullying: Verbal bullying, Socialbullying and Physical bullying.

Verbal bullying is saying or writing mean things. Verbalbullying includes teasing, name-calling, inappropriate sexual comments,taunting and threatening to cause harm. Meanwhile social bullying, sometimesreferred to as relational bullying, involves hurting someone’s reputation orrelationships. And physical bullying involves hurting a person’s body orpossessions.

Bullying can affect everyone, those who are bullied, those whobully, and those who witness bullying. Bullying is linked to many negativeoutcomes including impacts on mental health, substance use, and death.