RECOUNT TEXT

Purpose: to retell something that happened in the past and to tell a series of past event.

Generic Structure:

1. Orientation
2. Event(s)
3. Reorientation

Dominant Language Features:

1. Using Past Tense
2. Using action verb
3. Using adjectives


Narrative and recount in some ways are similar. Both are telling something in the past so narrative and recount usually apply PAST TENSE; whether Simple Past Tense, Simple Past Continuous Tense, or Past Perfect Tense. The ways narrative and recount told are in chronological order using time or place. Commonly narrative text is found in story book; myth, fable, folklore, etc while recount text is found in biography.

The thing that makes narrative and recount different is the structure in which they are constructed. Narrative uses conflicts among the participants whether natural conflict, social conflict or psychological conflict. In some ways narrative text combines all these conflicts. In the contrary, we do not find these conflicts inside recount text. Recount applies series of event as the basic structure