Text Genre (Part 1)

Final examination is slowly approaching.
At this time, all my students get stressed, not only because of the exam, but also they got a lot of homework from school.
They also have to prepare for practice exam, especially for English subject, which they have to write a discussion text and present it in front of their teachers and friends.
Because of this, I become a 'victim' for being forced to give them different themes for their texts.
Even worse, some of them irresponsibly asked me to write them a text.
Are they aware that I'm not 'google' or 'wikipedia'?
Who's the one that suppose to learn here?
Who's the one who get a score from practice exam?
-___-

However, because of this, I also forced myself to open my college books (after a long time).
I wanna learn more about text genre.
Suddenly, I have a thought, teaching is giving you more opportunities to study than studying itself.
I mean, I hardly had a will to study when I was a student, but I forcibly study when I'm a teacher now.

So, there are twelve genres of text in English lesson, but I'll tell you about Discussion text.
Discussion is a text where we discuss a problem or a case by giving two points of view, pros and contras (teks yang mendiskusikan suatu masalah atau kasus dengan menyajikan dua sudut pandang, yaitu pro dan kontra).
Discussion text has four structures:
1. Issue (a problem which will be discussed)
2. Arguments for (pro opinion)
3. Arguments against (contra opinion)
4. Conclusion

So, the point of writing a discussion text is you have to present the opinions in two views, pros and contras.
That's the characteristic of discussion texts.