d. Free Writing means the students are pleased to write any letter, text or essay by using patterns that they have learned before. In this process, the students
may think in English first and then write what they thought.
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B. Recount Text 1. Definition of Recount Text
People have their own real story in their life, whether it is good or bad. But they often want to share it with others due to amuse and entertain them. Their
story written then, called recount text. Recount text is written to retell a story or event in order to entertain readers. Anderson mentioned that recount is a piece of
text that retells past events, usually in the order in which they happened.
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Since this text is retelling past events, so it requires past tense as the tense-used. The
more attention in conducting this text is in verb-form, in this case in participle verb.
Furthermore, recount is a text type of narrating genre, but it is not complicated as narrative text should be. There are no complication between the subject and the
event, it just tell the structurally event from one by one of the subject’s story. In conclusion, recount text is a piece of text that retells past events, usually in order
to retell the past activities to other people which are about experience, event and real past activities in order to entertain the readers.
2. Generic Structures of Recount Text
The schematic structure of recount text as below:
a. Orientation is an introduction paragraph which is contain of who, what,
where and when of the story.
b. Events is a sequence of events that elaborate more in this part c. Re-orientation optional tells about a conclusion of the whole story.
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3. Features of Recount Text
Some features of recount text are served by Evans are: a. It is written in the past tense
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Ibid., p. 23.
19
Mark Anderson and Kathy Anderson, Text Types in English 1, South Yarra: Macmillan Education Australia, 2003, p. 48.
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Mark Anderson and Kathy Anderson., Text Types in English 3, South Yarra: Macmillan Education Australia, 2003, p. 25.
b. It contains some time connectives, such as ‘after a while’, ‘then’, and ’later’. c. It tells some kind of story with a beginning, middle and the end.
Moreover, other features proposed by Anderson, such as: a. The use of nouns and pronouns is to identify people, animals or things.
b. The use of action verbs is to show some activities which is doing by noun or subject
c. The use of past tense is to relate the writer’s story in an exactly time d. The use of time conjunctions is to connect the sequence of events
e. The use of adverbs and adverbs phrase f.
The use of adjectives is to define nouns
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4. Types of Recount Text
There are three types of recount: 1.
Personal recount; it is retelling an activity in the past which the writer personally involved in it.
2. Factual recount; it is a story about an accident. It is usually write by the
police, the historian, news report and etc. 3.
Imaginative recount: it is written by the writer with put himself in imaginary role.
4. Procedural recount; it means recording the steps in an investigation or
experiment and thereby providing the basis for reported results or findings. 5.
Literary recount is to retell a series of events for the purpose of entertaining.
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Here the example of recount text:
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Mark Anderson., Text Types in English 1, South Yarra: Macmillan Education Australia, 2003, p. 50.
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None. Engaging in and Exploring Recount Writing, Government of South Australia: A Journal of Numeracy + Literacy: 2011, pp. 1—5.
