The Purpose of Writing

3. Recount A recount is a piece of text that retells past events, usually in the order in which they happened. The purpose of a recount is to give the audience a description of what occurred and when it occurred. 23 4. News Item The function of news item is to inform readers or listeners about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important. 5. Procedure Procedure text is a text having a function to help us do a task or make something. They can be a set of instructions or directions. 6. Report Report text is a text that describes the way things are, with reference to a range of natural, man-made and social phenomena in our environment. 7. Spoof Spoof text is a text containing a humorous twist in the end of the story to amuse the readers. 8. Exposition a. Analytical Exposition Analytical exposition has a function to persuade the readers or the listeners that something in the case, to analyze or to explain something. b. Hortatory Exposition Hortatory exposition is a text to persuade the readers or the listeners that something should or should not be the case. Hortatory exposition is more forceful than analytical exposition. 23 Ibid., p. 61.

E. Recount

Recount is the type of writing whereas its purpose is to retell the events that has happened in the past. Furthermore, recount writing is also retelling author’s or other people’s experiences, feeling, and responses toward those experiences. The purpose of recount writing is to entertain or to inform the readers. As what is stated by Wardi man, “A recount text is a text that telling the reader about one story, action, and activity. Its goal is to entertain or inform the reader.” 24 From the above explanation we can conclude that recount writing is a non- fictional text that has purpose of entertaining or informing some past experience of the author or other people, and it is arranged in a chronological order. The characteristic of this text are the factual event or experiences being told and the chronological description about the event and the time of occurrence.

1. Generic Structure of Recount

The basis recount consists of three parts: orientation, events and reorientation, 25 as follows: a. Orientation It tells who was involved, what happened, where the events took place, and when it happened. Example: Last night, I read an article about adolescence in a magazine. b. Events It tells what happened and in what sequence. Example: After I finished reading the article, I remembered my own adolescence; to divert my emotions, I took many extra-curricular activities. 24 Wardiman., op. cit. P.61. 25 Wardiman, loc. cit.