Recount text

Last month when i bring my camera to school and start taking photograph,
accidentaly i got this pic with a sighthings and it's look very real i don't know where it came from but when i try to taking picture it's just gone. I don't have any clue to proof that this pic is real or not so i think you just better watch out if you see some one like this
hehe :)
so let's talk about our topic today
it's Recount text
what is Recount text?
what is the purpose of Recount text?
what is the structure of Recount text

The social function of Recount text is to retell past event or something which happened in the past. The purpose of this text can be only to inform or even just to entertain. Derewianka (1990) identified three types of Recount text, namely Personal Recount, Factual Recount, and Imaginative Recount. 

Personal Recount exposes an event in which the writer or the author got involved or acted in the event himself. Belong to this type among others are daily funny incidents, entries of a diary, etc. 

Factual Recount is a note of an event, such as scientific experiment report, police report, newspaper report, history explanation, etc. Imaginative Recount is an unreal event or story, like reading texts for language lesson, a story about a life of a slave, etc. Hardy and Kalrwein (1990) divided two kinds of Recount, namely PersonalRecount and Historical Recount.

The Generic Structure of recount text
1. Orientation : Introducing the participants, place and time
2. Events : Desciribing series of event that happened in the past
3. Re-Orientation : It is optional. stating personal comment of the writter to the story


Language Feature of Recount

• Introducing perconal participant ; I, my group, etc.
• Using chorological connection ; then, first, etc.
• Using linking verb ; was, were, saw, heard, etc.
• Usinh action verb ; look, go, change, etc.