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Pengertian Discussion Text

Discussion text adalah sebuah teks yang menyajikan suatu topik permasalahan yang kemudian didiskusikan dalam berbagai sudut pandang. Discussion text sendiri membahas suatu hal yang berisikan pandangan professional dan kontra terhadap suatu hal tersebut. Topik yang dibahas dalam discussion text sendiri biasanya adalah isu-isu kontroversial yang terjadi di masyarakat.

Tujuan Dari discussion text diantaranya memberikan informasi baru kepada pembaca terkait suatu isu. Informasi ini juga berupa sudut pandang baru, sehingga pembaca dapat melihat suatu isu dari sudut pandang berbeda. Masih banyak yang keliru dengan perbedaan Discussion Text dan Persuasive Text. Hal ini dikarenakan struktur keduanya sangat mirip.

Walau demikian, keduanya memiliki fungsi dan tujuan yang sangat berbeda. Pada persuasive text biasanya bersifat persuasif atau membujuk. Tujuannya adalah membujuk pembaca untuk setuju dengan opini penulis dan condong ke suatu pihak. Sementara discussion text biasanya bersifat logis dan objektif. Si penulis tak mengajak pembaca untuk condong ke salah satu pihak.

Tujuannya hanya memberikan informasi dari berbagai sudut pandang yang berbeda. Karena discussion text bersifat objektif, maka penulis tidak boleh berat sebelah dan harus senetral mungkin. Dalam pembuatan teks diskusi sendiri terdapat beberapa unsur kebahasaan.
 

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Secara singkat, bagian isu berisi permasalahan kontroversial yang akan didiskusikan dalam teks.

Contoh Discussion Text:

Not only in transportation, technology also becomes advanced in communication, and this advancement is the cause of social media. Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook are some examples of social media. Adolescents, or even some elementary students, also use one or more social media. People think that social media has many positive effects for their life. Yet, although social media gives positive effects, it also gives us negative effects.
The positive effect of social media is that it provides an easy way to connect to friends and relations. Social media allows us to stay in contact with friends and family who we are unable to see in person because we cannot meet them everyday as for example, they live far away from us. Social media also reduces communication barriers such as feeling shy to talk in face-to-face communication. If we use social media, we can share our arguments without feeling shy to other people.
On the other hand, social media also has negative effect. Leading to addiction is the most dangerous effect of social media.  When we feel really comfortable to use social media, it will make us addicted. One survey in 2014 shows that 87.4% of 7,000 internet users in Indonesia like to access social media. Social media can decrease face-to-face communication among us. Sometimes, it can make us think that we have a new world. Spending most of the time using social media and forgetting that we have the ‘real’ world are very dangerous effect of social media. Because of these uncontrolled behaviors, we can forget our real family, friends, study, or even our job.
In conclusion, as the effect of the advancement of technology in communication, it is common to use social media. However, we must be aware of the effect of social media. Not only gives positive effect, social media also gives us negative effect. It is okay to use social media, but we need to control ourselves. We must use it very wisely.

Dalam contoh diatas, isu berada pada paragraf 1 atau pada bagian yang diberi warna biru.