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  Definition of Descriptive Text Descriptive text is one type of text in English that is used to write descriptive narratives to make it more lively. In this narrative, the author can describe things from places, objects, to feelings as clearly as possible. The goal is only one, namely to make the reader can enter into a writing. In descriptive text, the selected words usually use detailed adjectives. For example, if you want to describe the taste of a food, the word delicious or delicious is not enough. You need to mention starting from the taste, shape, even composition. • Example:  My favorite food is chicken fettuccini pasta. I prefer this dish because of its great taste. It consists of a magnificent sauce, tender chicken, and mixed vegetables. This blend of ingredients contributes to the flavor, texture, and appearance of the pasta. Just because the sauce isn’t an attractive color, which is a dull white with drops of grey from mushrooms and specks of green from the broccoli, doesn

  What is the procedure text? Procedure text is a text that explains or helps us how to make or use something. Its social function is to describe how something is completely done through a sequence of steps.  The communicative purpose of this text is to describe how something is made through a sequence of actions or steps.  There are three generic structures in the procedure text. The first is goals or purposes. The second is the materials or tools. The third and the last are steps or methods.  To know the text that we read is a procedure or not is so simple. You can read the title if the title is started with ‘how to make…’ or ‘how to use…’ it can be certainly defined that the text is procedure text. Definition of Procedure Text There are three definitions of procedure text: 1.) Texts that explain how something works or how to use instruction/operation manuals e.g. how to use the video, the computer, the tape recorder, the photocopier, the fax. 2.) Texts that instruct how to do a part