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.
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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.
