Recount Text

        Recount text is a text that telling the reader about one story, action or activity. Its purpose is to entertain or informing the reader. Or a text which retells event or experiences in the past.

Generic Structure of  Recount Text

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.

The Characteristics / Language Feature of Recount Text:

• Using the simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect continuous tense.
• 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).
• Focus on a specific participants, e.g. I (the writer).
• Using the conjunctions, such as: then, before, after, etc.
• Using an action verb, e.g. went, stayed.
• the passive voice may be used, eg. the bottle was filled with ink (Factual Recount)

Kinds of  Recount Text

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..