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The purpose of this paper is to examine the linguistic features that each of the four text types shows in the organization of text, within the framework of discourse/text grammar in view of a functional perspective that discourse type is determined by a communicative function or rhetoric purposes. Following Virtanen(1992) and Trosborg(1997), I distinguish discourse type from text type and consider that discourse type at the macrolevel is decided by the text producer's choice of a discourse function, thus affecting the whole strategy of the text, while text type at the microlevel is constituted by part of the process of text-strategic planning, which is determined by the text producer's text strategy. This distinction illustrates an apparent mismatch of a discourse type and the corresponding text type. In this paper, I showed that a text type can be differentiated by a text typical thematic sentence, the text structure and the way of expanding a text.