Recount text

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How are you guys? I hope you're always well. This time Ms. Fatma is teaching new material again. The material is recount text. Let's learn together!!! Xixixi

What is Recount text?

1. Definition

Recount text is a text that is telling the reader about one story, action, or activity. Recount text is a text which retells event or experiences in the past.

2. Purpose

The purpose of a recount is to list and describe past experiences by retelling events in the order in which they happened. Recount are written to retell events with the purpose of either informing or entertaining their audience (or both).

3. Text structure

• 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 : consist of optional-closure of events / ending.

4. Type of recount

a. 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 a story about something that happened to us.

b. Factual recount

    A factual recount includes things like newspaper reports. The purpose of a factual 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.

c. 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.

d. Procedular recount

    Procedular 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 recount might not even involve the use of full sentences.

e. 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.

5. Expression

1. Using personal participant such as I, my, me, etc.
2. Using chronological connection such as first, then, etc.
3. Using linking verb such as were, was, heard, saw, etc.
4. Using action verb such as go, look, change, run, etc.
5. Using simple past tense.

Yeay!!! It doesn't feel like we've finally reached the end of the material. I hope this material that I wrote can be useful for all of you. See you on my next blog. Bye bye!!!