ENGLISH PROJACT #18 HISTORICAL RECOUNT pt.2 & RESULTS

Maret 03, 2022

ENGLISH PROJACT #18 HISTORICAL RECOUNT pt.2 & RESULTS

hello guys this is the umpteenth meeting with me, I hope you guys are okay!

at the meeting now I will explain about ' HISTORICAL RECOUNT '

🎞 WHAT'S THAT HISTORICAL RECOUNT 🎞

Recount text is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the readers. There is no complications among the participants and that differentiates from narrative text. A recount text has an orientation, a series of events in chronological order, personal remarks on the events, and a reorientation that “rounds off” the sequence of events.

The generic stucture of recount text is:

1. Orientation : It gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text, such as who was involved, where it happened, and when it happened.

2. Events : A series of events, ordered in a chronological sequence.

3. Re-orientation :A personal comment about the event or what happened in the end.

Language Features of the recount text:

. Introducing personal participant; I, my group, etc

. Using chronological connection; then, first, etc

. Using linking verb; was, were, saw, heard, etc

. Using action verb; look, go, change, etc

. Using simple past tense

💡 TYPES OF RECOUNT TEXT 💡

there are three types of recount. They are personal recount, factual recount, and imaginative recount.

a. Personal recount is a recount that retelling of an activity that writer or speaker has been personally involved in.

b. Factual recount is a recount that recording the particulars of an accident.

c. Imaginative recount is a recount that taking on an imaginary role and giving details events.

Literacy secretariat (2012: 1) stated that the types of recount text are not only as mentioned above, but also there are two types more. So, the types of recount text are:

a. Personal recount is retelling an activity that the writer has been personally involved in and may be used to build the relationship between the writer and the reader e.g. anecdote, diary journal, personal letter

b. Factual recount is reporting the particulars of an incident by reconstructing factual information e.g. police reconstruction of an accident, historical recount, biographical and autobiographical recounts

c. Imaginative recount is applying factual knowledge to an imaginary role in order to interpret and recount events e.g. A Day in the Life of a Roman Slave, How I Discovered Radium

d. Procedural recount is recording the steps in an investigation or experiment and thereby providing the basis for reported results or findings

e. Literary recount is to retell a series of events for the purpose of entertaining

📈 RECOUNT TEXT STRUCTURE 📉