RECOUNT TEXT

 RECOUNT TEXT

As the title suggests, welcome back to my work blog! this time I wrote a few things about recount text. What's in it? What is recount text? let's learn together, what is recount text.

1. Definition

Recount is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the audience. There is no complication among the participants and that differentiates from narrative. Recount text is  telling the reader about one story, action or activity. Its goal is to entertaining or informing the reader.

Source:https://www.smkabdurrab.sch.id/artikel/11-recount-text-definition-purposes-generic-structures-language-features

2. Purpose/Function 

– To retell past experience

The Characteristics / Language Feature of Recount Text:

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

– Using temporal sequence, e.g. On Saturday. On Monday, On Sunday

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

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

Source:https://pakpuguh.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/recount-text/

3. Text structure

Orientation : It gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text, such as who was involved, where it happened, and when it happened.

Events : A series of events, ordered in a chronological sequence.

Re-orientation : A personal comment about the event or what happened in the end.

Source:http://britishcourse.com/recount-text-definition-generic-structures-purposes-language-features.php

4. Types of recount 

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.

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 this, adverbs and adjectives are less important. You’ll often see facts and figures in this kind of recount writing.

Imaginative recount

This kind of recount writing applies factual knowledge of an event to create a fictional 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. They’re perfect for creative writing lessons.

Procedural recount

Procedural recounts aren’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 of this, the language needs to be exact. Procedural recounts might not even involve the use of full sentences.

Literary recount

This kind of recount writing is all about entertainment. They can be about fictional or real events and involve real or fictional characters. For an interesting writing challenge, why not try exploring a fictional event with real characters, and vice versa.?

Source: http://britishcourse.com/recount-text-definition-generic-structures-purposes-language-features.php

5. Expression/language components

— Using simple past tense, past continues tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect continues tense.

— Using temporal sequence (On Saturday, on Monday).

— Focus on specific participants.

— Using the conjunction.

— Using  action verd.

Source:http://britishcourse.com/recount-text-definition-generic-structures-purposes-language-features.php

6. Sample 

My Horrible Experience

      Let me remind you my experience during an earthquake last week. When the earthquake happened, I was on my car. I was driving home from my vocation to Bali.

     Suddenly my car lunched to one side, to the left. I thought I got flat tire. I did not know that it was an earthquake. I knew it was an earthquake when I saw some telephone and electricity poles falling down to the ground, like matchsticks.

    Then I saw a lot of rocks tumbling across the road. I was trapped by the rock. Even I could not move my car at all. There were rocks everywhere. There was nothing I could do but left the car and walked along way to my house, in the town.

   When I reached my town, I was so surprised that there was almost nothing left. The earthquake made a lot of damage to my town. Although nothing was left, I thanked God that nobody was seriously injured.

Source: https://pakpuguh.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/recount-text/

7. Writting

Piranha Fish

    When I was five years old, I once bought a batch of piranha fish. I bought it together with my grandmother in the fish market for a long time. Since I was little I was taught to love animals, so I often buy pets and take care of them as best I can. One day, when I came home from school, it happened about twelve years ago, my fish suddenly jumped out of the aquarium.

     I got scared and watched it closely. A few minutes later my fish was still acting abnormally. I'm getting scared and confused. Then I took an insect repellent and sprayed it on the aquarium causing my fish to die. After that incident, I never buy fish again.

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