Recount Text

Recount is a text which retells events or experiences in the past.

Social function of recount is to retell something that happened in the past and to tell a series of past event

Generic structure

1. Orientation, tells who was involved, what happened, where the events took place, and when it happened
2. Event, tell what happened and in what sequence
3. Reorientation, consist of optional closure of event or ending

Language features

1. Using simple past tense: visited, had, etc
2. Using action verb: helped, crutched, etc
3. Using adjectives

Example

Title	Camping
Orientation	Last weekend, my friends and I went camping. We reached the camping ground after we walked for about one and a half hour from the parking lot.
Events Event 1 Event 2 Event 3 Event 4    Event 5	We built the camp next to a small river. It was getting darker and colder, so we built a fire camp. The next day, we spent our time observing plantation and insects while the girls were preparing meals. In the afternoon we went to the river and caught some fish for supper. At night, we held a fire camp night. We sang, danced, read poetry, played magic tricks and even some of us performed a standing comedy. On Monday, we packed our bags and got ready to go home.
Reorientation	Although we felt tired, we all were happy because we got a lot of experiences of self living part from our parents.