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 Recount Text

Definition and the Purpose of Recount Text

Recount text is a text that telling the reader about one story, action or activity. Its purpose is to entertain or informing the reader. Or a text which retells event or experiences in the past.

Writers should remember that while the purpose is to retell they still need to craft their retelling to be interesting to the reader.  Rather than retelling every minor detail, the writer needs to select important information or events, and expand on these in an interesting manner.  If you were recounting a sports day, you could focus on the place, time, events, and results (which may be appropriate for a report), but to interest, the reader thinks about what would lift this above the dreary detail - What was the highlight of the day for you?  How did you feel when you tripped just before the finish line?  Did anything funny or surprising occur?

Generic Structure of  Recount Text

√	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.
√	Events	:	A series of events ordered in a chronological sequence.
√	Re-orientation	:	A personal comment about the event or what happened in the end.

The Characteristics / Language Feature of Recount Text:

1.	Using the simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect continuous tense.
2.	frequent use is made of words which link events in time, such as next, later, when, then, after, before, first, at the same time, as soon as she left, late on Friday, On Saturday. On Monday, On Sunday).
3.	Focus on a specific participant, e.g. I (the writer).
4.	Using the conjunctions, such as: then, before, after, etc.
5.	Using an action verb, e.g. went, stayed.
6.	the passive voice may be used, eg. the bottle was filled with ink (Factual Recount). Example : Alfred Nobel Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and ornament manufacturer. He was the inventor of dynamite. He also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannons and other ornaments. He held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him. He was the third son of Immanuel Nobel and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel. Born in Stckholm on 21 October 1833, he went with my family to Saint Petersburg in 1842, where his father invented modern plywood. He studied chemistry with Professor Nikolay Nickolaevich Zinin. When he was 18, he went to the United States to study chemistry for four years and worked for a short period under John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor. Returning to Sweden, with his father after bankruptcy of his family business, he then devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the save manufacture and use of nitroglycerine (discovered in 1847 by Acanio Sobrero, one of his fellow students under Theophile-Jules Pelouze at the University of Turin). A big explosion occurred on 2 September 1864 at his factory in Heleneborg in Stockholm, killing five people. Among them was his younger brother, Emil. The foundations of the Nobel Prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred Nobel wrote his last will, leaving much of his wealth for its establishment. Since 1901, the prize has honoured men and women for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and for work in peace. Video : I think thats all,thank you for visiting my blog.about the video i will post it soon after i record it.Stay healthy Guys.