Undestanding Recount Text
What
is Recount Text?
Recount text is a text that
retells a story, an experience, or an event that happen in the past.
Recount
Text is Divided Into
1. Biography
2. Historical
Recount
3. Experience
The Function of Recount Text
1. To
tell experiences in which the writer was personally involved.
2. To
inform the readers by telling the past events historically and achievements in
a person’s life.
3. To
chronicle pas event regarded as historically significant.
Generic Structure of Recount Text
1.
Orientation
Tells who is involved
in the story, when, where, and why the story happened.
2.
Series of Events
Tells what happened in
the story
3.
Re-orientation (optional)
Tells the conclusion
of the story
Language Feature of Recount Text
1. Introducing
personal participant (I, my group, etc.)
2. Using
chronological connection (then, first, etc.)
3. Using
linking verb (was and were.)
4. Using
action verb (sent, taught, etc.)
5. Using
simple past tense (forgot, imagined, etc.)
Types of Recount Text
1.
Personal Recount
A personal recount is
what’s most likely to be covered in school. This type of recount writing is all
about the writer’s recollection of a particular event or experience. It
includes things like diary writing, but it’s also what we do whenever we tell
someone a story about something that happened to us.
2.
Factual Recount
A factual recount
includes things like newspaper reports. The purpose of a factual recount is to
inform (rather than entertain) the reader about a particular event. Because of
thus, adverbs and adjective are less important. You’ll often see facts and
figures in this kind of recount writing.
3.
Imaginative recount
This kind of recount
writing applies factual knowledge of an event to create a functional account of
that event. The purpose of an imaginative recount is to help the reader
understand an event by providing a fictional recount that’s as true-to-life as
possible.
4.
Procedural Recount
Procedural recount isn’t
very common in English lessons – they’re more for scientists. In fact, they’re
most often used to describe an experiment so that it can be replicated by
others. Because off this, the language needs to be exact. Procedural recounts
might not even involve the use of full sentence.
5.
Literary Recount
This kind of recount
writing is all about entertainment. They can be about fictional or real event
in involve real or fictional characters. For an interesting writing chellenge,
why not try exploring a fictional event with real characters, and vice versa.
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