CONCEPT
OF RECOUNT TEXT
a. Definition of Recount text
What
is recount text? According to Siswanto, Joko (2005: 202) recount is a text that
tells someone’s past experience in a chronological order. Derewianka (1990:15) also assets in
recount, we construct past experience. A recount is the unfolding of a sequence
of events overtimes. It is used to tell retell past events for the purpose of
informing or entertaining. Its focus is on a sequence of events. It generally
is begun with an orientation. It provides
the backgrounds information needed to understand the text such as who was involved, where it
happened and when it happened. Then, the recount unfolds with a series of
events (ordered in a chronological sequence). At various stages, there may be some personal comments
on the incident. We call it re-orientation.
Recount
is typically tells entertain by dealing with a sequence of events that
establishes a relationship between a writer/reader/ speaker/listener. A recount
is a story about the sequence of happening in past time to entertain the
readers. It uses past tense to tell the story and focuses on individual
participant. “Recount text retells the events for the purpose of informing or
entertaining.” In the Handout of Writing 3 (2010: 19).
Recount
text based on the life experiences and familiar language. Recounts are used in
most subjects to show memory of series of events as in accounts of Science
excursion, everyday life in another time or culture. Personal letters to
friends are often recounts of experience
b. The Generic Structure of Recount Text
Based
on Indahsari. (2010: 21-22) The generic structures of recount text are:
1) Orientation.
Orientation tells who was involved
in the story, when, where, and why the story happened. Orientation provides the
setting and introduce participant
2) Record
of events.
Records of the story tell what are
in the story. Events are usually arranged in a temporal sequence. It tells what
happened, in what sequence
3) Re-
orientation.
Re- orientation is the conclusion
of the story. It is optional element. It is at the end which summarizes at the
events.
c. Types
of Recount Text
Lexicon
grammatical features of recount text divided into:
1) General
a) Specific
participant (Mrs. Agung, our dog, the shopkeeper)
b) Use
of simple past tense (she smiled, it barked, he pointed)
c) Use
of action verbs /material processes ( went, climbed, etc)
d) Use
of linking item to do with time (on Wednesday, then, at the same time, next,
later, before)
e) Detail
irrelevant to the purpose of the text should be avoided.
2) Personal
Recount
a) Use
of first person pronouns (I, we)
b) Personal
Responses to the event can be included, particularly at the end.
c) Details
are often chosen to add interest or humor.
3) Factual
Recount
a) Use
of third person pronouns (he, she, it, they)
b) Details
are usually selected to help the reader reconstruct the activity or incident
accurately.
c) Sometimes
the ending describes the outcome of the acidity (e.g. in a science experiment)
d) Mention
of feelings is probably not appropriate.
e) Details
of time, place and manner may need to be precisely stated (e.g.at 1.45 pm,
between Johnson St and Park Rd, the man drove at thespeed of 85 kph)
f) Descriptive
details may also be required to provide precise information (e.g. a man with a
blue shirt, black shoes, and short hair, weighing 76 kilos and approximately
189 cm tall).
g) The
passive voice may be used (e.g. the beaker was filled with water)
h) It
may be appropriate to include explanation and justifications.
4) Imaginative
Recount
This type of recount that the text
presented an imaginary role and giving details of event.
a) Usually
written in the first person
b) It
may be appropriate to include personal reactions.
d. The
Language Feature of Recount Text
d. The language features of recount
text are:
1) Recount
text focus on what an individual or a group of people were doing. It can be
written in the first or the third person.
2) Using
past tense. Past tense is the form a verb used to describe actions in the past.
Many linguistics explain by the own term but most of them have the same content
3) Using
Material (action) Process; Material Processes are processes of material doing.
They express the notion that some entity physically does something-which may be
done to some other entity.
4) Focus
on temporal sequence of events (temporal conjunction) Conjunction is a
connective. It is a part of speech (or word class) that serves to connect
words, phrases, clause or sentence. Example: Last year, on the weekend, then,
etc
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