Recount Text

Recount Text

The Definition Of Recount Text

Recount text is a text that is used to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.

The generic structures of recount text are :

— Orientation ( it gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text such as who was involved, where it happened, when it happened)

— Events (a series of events, ordered in a chronological sequence)

— Re-orientation (restates the writer’s opinion or personal comment of the writer on the incident

The significant Lexicogrammatical features :

◦ Use of simple past tense

◦ Use of temporal conjunctions (when, after, before, next, later, then)

◦ Use of personal pronoun (I, we)