Analytical exposition
To persuade the reader or listener that something is the case. Hortatory
Exposition To persuade the reader or listener that somehting should or
should not be the case. Discussion
To present at least two points of view about an issue. Description
To describe a particular person, place or thing. Review
To criticize an art work or event for a public audience. Commentary To explain the processes involved in the formation
evolution of a socio-cultural phenomenon, as though a natural phenomenon.
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In conclusion, the text types represent the most common ways in which language is structured to achieve a certain purpose. Writers and speakers use these
structures in order to help the reader or listener understand the text.
B. Recount Texts
1. The Definition of Recount Texts
In communication, sometimes we want to inform others about the past activities, such holiday event, weekend activity, seminar event etc. In written text,
those information can be arranged in recount text.
Anderson and Anderson stated,”A recount is a piece of text that retells past events, usually in the order in which they occurred.
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Recount text simply can be defined as a text type to inform the past activity.
In addition, Based on Priyana , ”A recount text is a text that tells us about a
part of experience.”
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Recount texts tell a series of events that can be an experience of someone in his life.
Recount text is used to reconstruct and to describe something that has already happened. It is used to retell someone
‟s experience. It also includes the author‟s or other people‟s feeling and responses to these experiences.
The social function of recount text is to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.
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Hartono, op. cit., p. 6.
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Anderson Anderson, Text Types in English 3, op. cit., p. 24.
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Joko Priyana et. al., Interlanguage: English for Senior High School X, Jakarta: Pusat Perbukuan Departemen Pendidikan Nasional, 2008, p. 18.
The purpose of a recount text is to give the audience a description of what occurred and when it occurred.
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It gives us the information about the text which is needed in a recount text.
The strategy to read recount text is: Bacalah judul dan paragraf pertama untuk mendapatkan orientasi umum
tentang peristiwa. Tetapkan tujuan membaca berikutnya: menelaah keseluruhan peristiwa secara lebih detail, atau mencari informasi tertentu. Bacalah
kelanjutan teks itu dengan lebih cermat untuk tujuan pertama, atau lakukan scanning untuk mencapai tujuan kedua.
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Djiwandono, explained that “The strategy to read recount text is first read the title and first paragraph to get the general orientation about the situation.
Establish the purpose of reading whether to get the whole incident more detail or to get the certain information. Then read the text more detailed for the first
purpose or do the scanning technique to get the second purpose ”.
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Based on those descriptions about recount text, it can be concluded that recount text is a text which tells a sequence of events which happened in the past
time. It serves the reader about what occurred and when it occurred.
2. Kinds of Recount Text
