A RECOUNT

RECOUNT AT GLANCE

INTRODUCTION

I am sure that you have an experience in your life. The experience can be the planned or unplanned one. It does not matter which one you have. As long as it tells the readers something or events, your experience will be a nice story. Now, concerning your story, there is a term ‘Recount’. If you have no idea about it, I will tell you.

DEFINITION

Recount is one of text types or genres. There are narrative, descriptive, procedures, news items, etc. Recount is your own story or experience that happened in the past. You just retell your story or experience to your friends or other people about what you did or what happened in the story.

PURPOSE OF RECOUNT

Because recount is different from other text types, its purpose also differs. The main difference is that recount is to provide information by retelling the readers about what happened in the past in chronological order.

TYPES OF RECOUNT

There are three types of recount. They are: 1) personal recount 2) factual recount, and 3) and imaginative recount. Personal recount is a story that people did or experienced themselves in the past, for example, diary entries, letters, etc. Factual recount is a story which contains facts, plans, or procedures. A police report on traffics, a report of lab experiment, newspaper reports etc. is the example of factual recount. Imaginative recount is a story produced fully in the creation of your mind or imagination; not facts or real experience. However, in the following section, you are firstly introduced to personal recount.

FEATURES OF RECOUNT

1. It emphasizes on the individual people/participants or events.

2. Personal pronouns are used such as ‘I, WE, MOTHER, or A CAT.

3. It is written in the past tense (Verb past tense and be-s (was/were)).

4. Time connectors such as next, later, after that, afterwards, finally, when, then, after, before, first, at the same time, as soon as, etc are used.

5. It uses action verbs.

GENERIC STRUCTURES OF RECOUNT

A recount text consists of three main parts:

- ORIENTATION

- SEQUENCE/ORDER OF EVENTS

- ORIENTATION

Suppose that the text recount consists of three paragraphs, the parts of the text will be as follows.

Paragraph 1 = ORIENTATION

Paragraph 2 = SEQUENCE/ORDER OF EVENTS

Paragraph 3 = REORIENTATION

1. ORIENTATION

· An orientation provides details of who was in the story involved, what was involved, when it happened, and where it happened.