UNDERSTANDING RECOUNT
A recount text is a text that recounts events or events of the past events of the past. The story can be an action or activity before.
A recount text is a type of text in English that contains the story of the actions or activities of the author or the characters in the story. The activity or action in question is the experience of the author expressed through the recount text, usually the purpose of the recount text is to entertain the reader, as well as provide information.
The purpose of a recount is to list and describe past experiences by retelling events in the order in which they happened. Recounts are written to retell events with the purpose of either informing or entertaining their audience (or both).
Recount text has the following three main structures or generic structures.
- Orientation, the first structure to contain information about the person, the scene, when the incident took place and so on. The information provided by the author is expected to provide the knowledge or information required by the reader to understand the story.
- Events, the second structure is the content of the text or the story of events or experiences that the author wishes to convey to the reader.
- Reorientation, the third structure contains the conclusions or summaries or repeats of information present in the orientation structure.
- Personal recount
These usually retell an event that the writer was
personally involved in.
- Factual recount
Recording an incident, eg. a science experiment, police report.
- Imaginative recount
Writing an imaginary role and giving details of events, eg. A day in the life of a pirate; How I invented...
Language Features 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.
– Using action verb, e.g. went, stayed
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EXAMPLE
My Bad Day
Doni scrimped and paid for a trip around the world that lasted two months. In his diary, he detailed his journey. I travelled to London and spent several weeks in Europe after spending a week in New York. I took a train to Istanbul and visited several locations in Asia after seeing the sights in Europe. First, I flew from Mexico City to New York City, where he lives. After travelling across Asia, I travelled to South America before returning to Indonesia. Doni was weary, but he was ecstatic to be on the road again.
Indonesian Independence Proclamation
On Friday, August 17, 1945, at 10 a.m., the Proclamation of Indonesian Independence was read. The declaration signaled the launch of the Indonesian National Revolution’s political and military struggle against Dutch forces and pro-Dutch citizens before the latter formally recognized Indonesia’s independence in 1949. Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta, who were declared president and vice-president the next day, signed the agreement.
Writing
My Holiday At Parangtritis Beach
On weekends my father's work place has a picnic to Parangtritis beach, we go together on the bus that has been prepared, during the trip we enjoy the natural scenery and have fun on the bus by singing, guessing quizzes and much more.
when we arrived at Parangtritis beach, I was amazed by the beautiful scenery and the many tourists having fun there, on this beach I had fun and enjoyed everything that was there, I captured the moment by taking pictures with my family, my father's co-workers, and taking photos of the scenery on the beach, I shopped there to bring souvenirs for my family and tried all the games that were there.
after spending a lot of time there we finally decided to go home, on the way home we stopped to eat and went to the souvenir shop, after the shop we continued on our way home and sang together on the bus.
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