The third stage is revising. This stage helps the students to build upon what has already been done, in order to make it stronger.
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They need to recheck what they have already written in the draft. Then the last stage after revising is editing.
This final stage means checking the writing for mistakes in grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling.
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In this stage the students have to refine some mistakes that they have made.
B. Recount Text
1. Definition of Recount Text
Recount text is one of subjects that should be taught in Senior High School, especially in first grade. That requirement is found in Competency Standard-
Standard Kompetensi SK and Basic Competency- Kompetensi Dasar KD. From its name, recount text is a kind of some genres in writing. There are some
experts who define recount text, two of them are the Andersons who in their book said that “A recount is a piece of text that retells past events, usually in the order
in which they occurred.” It means that a recount text tells about something that
has happened in the past chronologically. Chronologically means that recount text should contain of what happened, who was involved, when the events happened,
where the events took place and why and how the events could have happened. In recount text, the students may write all past events not only retell about
factual or historical events but based on their personal experience.
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It means that writing about past event; personal experience, factual or historical events, that has
happened is called by recount text. The students must have their own past stories about their lives, such as their holiday, terrible moment, and happy moment. They
could write them all into paper called recount. As mentioned above, recount text is
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Ibid, p. 26.
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Ibid, p. 30.
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Maureen Hyland, Writing Text Types: A Practical Journal, Western Australia: R.I.C. Publications, 2009, p. iii.
used to retell about an event that has occurred in the past. Therefore, recount is always written in the past form or past tense.
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Recount is one of the written text types which consist of grammar of speech.
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In writing a recount, the students should be aware about some crucial things such as, the grammatical structure; past tenses, that should be used. The students also
need to be concerned about the sequence of events, common action verb and connections in the recount.
From some definitions above, it can be concluded that recount is a kind of text type which retell about past events chronologically. Those past events can be
about factual events or historical events or the student s’ or personal experience
that is usually learned in senior high school in Indonesia. Recount text uses past tense to retell the events, so the students also need to pay more attention to its
crucial things; grammatical structure, e.g. mastering the forms of regular and irregular verbs and language for not making misunderstanding and
miscommunication to the readers.
2. The Purpose of Recount Text
