Planning Stages of Writing

However, writing has purposes as a way of communicating to deliver ideas to the readers. Based on Miller, the purposes of writing are 29 : 1. To describe what a writer hopes to accomplish. 2. To amuse the readers. 3. To persuade the readers like in hortatory exposition While Carol A. Binder and Susan Lopez-Nerney, stated the purposes of writing as follow 30 : 1. To inform. It means that writing can help readers to know what they do not know before they read the text. Writing gives information in many forms, such as newspaper, articles, books, magazines, etc. 2. To express an opinion. It means that writing can express what the writer feels or thinks and express their idea or response about something. 3. To convince. To convince is same as to persuade. Writer can convince reader through their writing in discussing an issue. Today, there are some writers, moreover journalists, who write their writing to convince so many people in form of internet article, newspaper, magazine and books. 4. To argue. Besides to persuade, writing has also a purpose to argue an issue which is being talked by some people. 5. To entertain. It means that writing entertains readers from the text written. The examples of entertaining text are short story, novel, entertainment news, etc. It gives such refreshment for mind and imaginative idea and is included in the two kinds of text – narrative and recount text.

B. Recount Text 1.

Definition of Recount Text Recount text recount is a piece of text that retells past events, usually in the order in which they happened. 31 It tells significance event happened to the writer 29 Robert Keith Miller, Motives for Writing Fifth Edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006, p. 4. 30 Carol A. Binder and Susan Lopez-Nerney, Op.cit., p. 7. and it usually uses the first person as recount tells about writer’s lives. 32 Recount, as the other text types, has purpose to deliver what writer wants to share with readers.

2. Purpose of Recount Text

The purpose of recount text is to tell what and when something happened to the audience. Miller stated goals of recount text are to make the writers more understand about them, and for the readers, it makes them understanding of their own experience and the writer’s. 33 While in Adibah’s book, she wrote social function of recount text is to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining. 34 In order to achieve the purpose, recount text has generic structure as a base for the writing.

3. The Generic Structure of Recount Text

In order to create well-organized recount text, students should pay attention to the features past tense, proper nouns, word order of events and the generic structure. The generic structure of recount text should be known by students to characterize between recount text and the other kind of texts. This structure, as Hall stated in Writing Well: 2