Purposes of Writing Writing Skill 1.

Recount also focuses on individual participants, past tenses, temporal sequence of events and action clauses. 36

4. Sample of Recount Text My First Experience to Ride Motorcycle

One day, when I was ten years old, my father bought an old motorcycle. That was Honda 75. I think it was small light object and easy to ride it. I persuaded my father to teach me to ride Honda 75. Firstly, my father refused my request and promised that he would teach me two or three years later, but I still whimpered. Finally, my father surrendered and promised to teach me. He began to teach me riding the motorcycle around a field in my village. My father was very patient to give me some directions. I was very happy when I realized my ability to ride a motorcycle. Yes, I did it One day after that, when I was alone at home, I intended to try my riding ability. So, I tried bravely. All ran fluently in the beginning, but when I was going back to my home and I must pass through a narrow slippery street, I got nervous. I lost my control and I fell to the ditch. After that, I told my father about the last accident. I imagined my father would be angry and never let me ride a motorcycle anymore. But the reality was exactly on the contrary, my father was very proud of me. He just gave me some advice and since that accident, I got my fathers permission to ride motorcycle. Based on the sample above, it can be found that the purpose is to tell the readers about the writer’s first experience in riding a motorcycle. From the first paragraph, it is known as the orientation of this recount text. The second to the 36 Haryati, Op. cit, p.15. third is the event of this recount text which is the story how the writer had the experience. As the closure, it is in the fourth paragraph.

5. Kinds of Recount Text

Texts which included as recount are diary, journal and everything tells personal experiences. Personal experience also included as narrative but it is not fully narrative as in novels, historical occurrences, or even myths, therefore it belongs to recount text. 37 Narrator tries to communicate through hisher writing about what happened in the event the narrator included and nothing is artificial about the event. 38 So that, by writing recount text, students are hoped to write easily and enjoyably.

C. Picture 1.

Definition of Picture Picture in teaching technique, based on Raimes, is drawings, photographs, posters, slides, cartoons, magazine advertisements, diagrams, graphs, tables, charts and maps can be valuable resource for teaching writing. Pictures provide a shared experience for the students in the class, a common base that leads to a variety of language activities. 39 In addition, Schwartz’s opinion about picture which rewritten by Yusnita, Sada and Novita is a great incentive for language production and can be used in many ways in the classroom to interest and to motivate a sense of language context and stimulus. 40 Moreover, picture can bring the world outside the students have not known before into the class in a concrete way, as it provides 41 : a A shared experience in the classroom. b A need for common language forms to use in the classroom. 37 Sylvan Barnet and Marcia Stubbs, Op.cit., p. 178. 38 Sylvan Barnet and Marcia Stubbs, Op cit., p. 181. 39 Ann Raimes, Techniques in Teaching Writing, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983, p. 27. 40 Enny Yusnita, Clarry Sada and Dewi Novita, Improving Students’ Recount Writing Text by Using Picture Series, Pontianak: Tanjungpura University, 2011, p. 5. 41 Ann Raimes, Op.cit., p. 28.