Text Recount

 

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Definition of Recount Text

Literally, recount means “to tell.” So recount text can be interpreted as “Text that tells”. If we refer to the information in school books (Read: Junior High School / Senior High School), recount text is a text that tells the reader about one story, action or activity. Its goal is to entertaining or informing the reader. But Inside Recount Text there is no complication just like in Narrative Text.

Purpose of Recount Text

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) in a simple word the purpose of recount text is to retell past experience.

Structure of Recount Text

• Orientation : tells who was involved, what happened, where the events took place, and when it happened.
• Events : tell what happened in chronological sequence.
• Re-orientation : consists of optional-closure of events / ending.

Types of Recount Text

In exploring how text works (Derewinka, 1990: 15-17), there are
Three types of recount. They are personal recount, factual recount, and
Imaginative recount.

A. Personal Recount. Is a recount that retelling of an activity that writer or speaker has been personally involved in.

B. Factual Recount. Is a recount that recording the particulars of an Accident.

C. Imaginative Recount. Is a recount that taking on an imaginary role and Giving details events

D. Procedural recount. Is recording the steps in an investigation or experiment and thereby providing the basis for reported results or findings

E. Historical recount. Is a form of recount text whose contents tell historical events.

Expression / language components

•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 verd, e.g. went, stayed

Sample

I was staying up late until 2 am which was very unusual for me. I set my alarm to 5 am. I woke up at 7 am and I did not hear my alarm rang. It turned out that my alarm was broken. I rushed to bathroom and changed to my school uniform. I ran to my school. When I arrived, I was punished for being late.

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Writing

Camping 

Last Saturday, my friends and I went to the beach for camping. We set up a tent on the white sand beach. There were 3 tents with 3 people for each one.

At that time, the wind was so calm and cool. After the camp fire was lit, we sat in a circle around it, sang our favourite songs, and enjoyed our dinner together.