🌟 Definition of Recount Text 🌟

Recount is a text that retells events or experiences in the past which its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the audience (Derewianka, 2013: 205).
The aim of this text is to either inform or to entertain the audience.

✨ Generic Structure ✨

In this discussion we will be introduced the generic structure of recount text. The generic structure of recount text are:

Orientation

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Events

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Re-Orientation

Orientation, events, and re-orientation (Anderson, M. and Anderson, 2003: 215).

✨ Types of Recount Text ✨

Firstly, personal recount, which exposes an event in which the experiences of the writer which happen in the past. for example biographic and autobiographies.

Secondly, factual recount is detail selected to help the reader reconstruct the activity or incident. Which the purpose is to retell the past event or incident which is related to the factual event in general. For example: recording an incident, science department, police report.

Thirdly, imaginative recount is an unreal event or story and tells an imaginative character and imaginative events which is created by the writer (Derewianka, 1990:15). For example: personal though/reaction.

✨ The Purpose of Text Recount ✨

Is to reconstruct past experiences by retelling events in original sequence. The purpose of recount text is to list and describe past experiences by retelling events in the order in which they happened.

Wardiman (2008:61) to entertaining or informing the reader.

✨ Language Feature of Recount Text ✨

Vocabularies Used

Vocabulary yang berhubungan dengan teks recount meliputi:

Place: School, house, beach, canteen etc.
Time: Yesterday, day before yesterday, last week, last month, etc.
Conjunctions: then, before, after, etc.

Using Simple Past tense

Formulation:
Subject + Verb2 + Complement
Verb:
Worked, made, wrote, became, toll, spoke, etc.