The Principles of Teaching Reading
events, usually in the order in which they happened.”
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It means that when the writer tells hisher events or someone’s events that has already happened in
the past, he or she telling recount. Another experts explain the definition of recount text, as Utami
Widiati states that, “Recount is a text which has social function to retell events
for the purpose of informing or entertaining.”
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It points out that recount text tells the past events and has purpose that is to inform and to entertain the
reader. The writer can do it by recalling or remembering the past event. In recount, the writer takes the detail that should be told in the text
such as a time, place, description and event. That is, he or she organizes the details of event or accident they wish to tell in the way that will be more
effectively convey the illustration. Based on the explanation above recount text is a text that telling
about an event that happened in the past. It also tells what occurred, when it occurred, where or how the event occurred. Recount could be the writer’s
experience or someone else experience, such as story of holiday or an important event of someone.