b. Organization which is logical and effective. Organization refers to the order of your ideas and the way you move from one to the next idea.
c. Voice which is individual and appropriate. Voice is how your writing feels to someone when they read it. Is it formal or casual? Is it friendly
and inviting or reserved and standoffish? Voice is the expression of your individual personality in form of words.
d. Word choice that is specific and memorable. Good writing only uses the right words to say just the right things.
e. Sentence fluency which is smooth and expressive. Fluent sentences are easy to understand and fun to read with expression.
f. Conventions which are correct and communicative. Conventions are the ways we agree to use punctuation, spelling, grammar, and other
thing that make writing consistent. From the explanations above, it can be concluded that writing is difficult
and complex in some ways. However writing is like any other skills, it can be learned and mastered although it takes time to master and need a lot of practice
since it involves some skills.
B. Recount Text
Recount text is a text that retells experience in the past that has generic structure and language features. There are different kinds of recount text as
described below.
1. Definition of Recount Text
One of the teacher decisions to get students write will depend on what genre the students need to write.
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The term of genre comes from French and originally Latin word for „kind‟ or „class‟. The term is widely used in rhetoric, literary
theory, media theory, and more recently linguistics, to refer a distinctive type of text.
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In support, according to Kress Cited in Chandler, genre is a type of text that takes its form from the structure of a social frequently repeated occasion
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Jeremy Harmer, How to Teach Writing – 2
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Impression Edinburg: Pearson Longman, 2007, p. 113
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Daniel Chandler, An Introduction to Genre Theory Unpublished, 2000, p. 1
with its characteristic participants and their purposes.
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From the statements, genre can be defined as class of text that is differentiated by their social purpose of the
authors or writers and other characteristics such as generic structures, tenses, discourse, etc. There are many types of genre of text
– one of the types of genre is recount text.
People often want to tell or write about something they did at the weekend. It might be about exciting things that happened when they were on holidays last
year or last weekend – it is called recount. Based on Anderson, recount text is a
type of text which retells past events. It is a text that aims to describe about what happened when something is occurred.
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According to Gerot and Wignell, recount text is a text that is used to retell events for the purpose of informing and
entertaining the readers or the listeners.
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The detail in recount text can include what happened, who was involved, where it took place, when it happened, and
why it happened. From all the experts‟ definition of recount text above, it can be concluded
that recount text is a kind of genre that reconstructs something that occurred in the past in order to describe chronologically about what happened in a written form.
In other word, recount text is a text that retells past events chronologically with its purpose is to give descriptions or entertain the reader.
2. The Purpose of Recount Text
