TYPES OF GENRE

Descriptive
To describe a particular person/place/thing.
1.       Identification (special participant)
2.       Description (parts, quality, characteristics)

Procedure

To help readers do a ask/make something. They can be a set of instructions/directions.
1.       Goal (final purpose)
2.       Materials (ingredients, utensils, equipment)
3.       Steps (a set of instructions)

Narrative

To entertain the readers/to amuse the readers.
1.       Orientations (a setting of characters, a plot)
2.       Complications (problems are arising)
3.       Resolution (solution of problem)
4.       Re-orientation (a closing remark, option)

Report

To describe the way thing are such as a man-made thing, animal, and plants.
1.       General classification (topic such as or sub-class)
2.       Identification (shape/form, parts, behavior, habitat, way of survival)

Recount

To tell the readers what happened in the past through a sequence of events.
1.       Orientation (who, what, when, where, how, etc)
2.       Event (in a chronological order)
3.       Evaluation (comment of recounts)
4.       Reorientation (conclusion, tentative in personal recount)

News Item

To inform the readers/listeners/viewers about event of the day which are news-worthy/important.
1.       News-worthy events (summary)
2.       Background events (cause and details)
3.       Sources (comments of participants, witnesses, authorities, and experts)