1. Recount Valentina Widya. S

2. Social Function To record events for the purpose of informing To tell what happened

3. Types of Recount • Personal Recount : retelling of an activity that the writer or speaker has been personally involved in (example: diary, anecdote) • Factual Recount : recording the particular of an incident (example: report of social experiment, police report, news report, historical account) • Imaginative Recount : taking of an imaginary role and giving details of events (example: a day in life of a Roman slave)

4. Generic Structure Orientation : giving the reader the background information needed to understand the text Record (Sequence) of Events : a record of events in a chronological sequence Reorientation : closure of events (Coda)* : comment on events

5. Linguistic Features GENERAL • focus on specific participants • Past tense • Verbs of action • Use of temporal connectives to indicate sequence of events • Circumstances of time and place

6. Linguistic Features PERSONAL RECOUNT • Use of 1st person pronouns (I, We) • Personal responses to the events can be included, particularly at the end • Details are often chosen to add interest or humour

7. Linguistic Features FACTUAL RECOUNT • Use of 3rd person pronouns (he, she, it) • Details are usually selected to help the reader reconstruct the activity or incident accurately • Sometimes the ending describes the outcome of the activity (e.g. in a science experiment) • Mention of personal feelings is probably not appropiate.

8. FACTUAL RECOUNT • Details of time, place, and manner may need to be precisely stated 9e.g. at 2.30 pm, in the corner of the street) • Descriptive details may also be required to provide precise information (e.g. a man with red shirt, brown shoes and long hair) • The passive voice may be used • It may be appropriate to include explanations and justifications

9. Linguistic Features IMAGINATIVE RECOUNT • Usually written in the 1st person. • It may be appropriate to include personal reaction

10. Modelling • EXAMPLE_RECOUNT.doc

11. Joint Construction - Historical, Biographical, and Autobiographical Recounts • When did it happen? • What happened? • Where did it happen? • Why did it happen? • Written from which point of view? • Character description (use emotive language, exaggeration, stereotypes, inferential clues) • Technical Language • Visual Text