number of different activities simultaneously and thereby places great demands on the cognitive system.”
3
It means that writing is an example of action process of human information. It is very complicated job which needs a set of activities at the
same time and thus requires vast demands on system of cognitive. From several definition of writing above, it looks that writing is very
complicated physical skill which consists of activities such as recalling and thinking which need vast demands on people’s cognitive system at the same time.
So people need so much energy and have to practice more and more.
b. Types of Writing
1 Recount
a Definition of recount
According to Mark and Kathy Anderson “a recount is a piece of text that
retells past events, usually in the order in which they happened.
4
It means that recount has purpose to tell what happened in the past through a sequence of
events. Examples of recount text include: eyewitness account, newspaper reports, letters, conversations, television interviews, and speeches.
5
Recount has three main sections. An orientation is the first paragraph which gives background information about who, what, where, and when. Orientation is
followed by a series of paragraphs that retell the events in the order in which they happened. Some recounts have a concluding paragraph which is not always
necessary. b
Features of Recount 1
Constructing a written recount The recount text type retells past events, usually in order in which they
happened. The steps for constructing a written recount are: a
A first paragraph that gives background information about who, what, where and when called an orientation.
3
Naomi Flynn and RhonaStainthorp, The Learning and Teaching of Reading and Writing,Chichester: Whurr Publishers Limited, 2006, p. 54
4
Andersen, Mark and Andersen, Text Types in English 1, Yara: Macmillan Education Australia PTY LTD, 1997, p. 48
5
Andersen, Mark and Andersen, Text Types in English 3, Yara: Macmillan Education Australia PTY LTD, 1997, p. 24
