Recount Text

 

What is recount Text?

Recount text is a text that is telling the reader about one story, action, or activity. Another definition Recount text is a text which retells event or experiences in the past.

What is the purpose of Recount Text?

The purpose is to retell they still need to craft their retelling to be interesting to the reader.

How the Generic Structure

·         Part 1: Orientation; it gives the reader the background information as two why this person is noteworthy and should have a biography written about. The opening paragraph should answer the questions; who, what, where, when, and how.

·         Part 2: Series of event; it presents a series of events, usually told in chronological order. Here the writer might refer to a certain time on line.

·         Part 3: Re-orientation; it consists of a type of conclusion with a comment on the contributions this person has made or a summary and evaluation of the person’s achievement.

The Characteristics / Language Feature of Recount Text

1.      Using the simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect continuous tense

2.      frequent use is made of words which link events in time, such as next, later, when, then, after, before, first, at the same time, as soon as she left, late on Friday, On Saturday. On Monday, On Sunday).

3.      Focus on a specific participant, e.g. I (the writer)

4.      Using the conjunctions, such as: then, before, after, etc

5.      Using an action verb, e.g. went, stayed