Generic Structure of Recount outlines the typical components of a recount text: orientation, events, and optional reorientation. Language features include use of personal pronouns, chronological connectors, action verbs, simple past tense, and time/place circumstances. There are three types of recount: personal, factual, and imaginative. Recount and narrative both use past tense but differ in structure - recount has no complication among participants unlike narrative.

4. Generic Structure of Recount
1. Orientation: Introducing the
participants, place and time.
2. Events: Describing series of
event that happened in the
past.
3. Reorientation: It is optional.
Stating personal comment of
the writer to the story.

5. Language Feature of Recount
 Introducing personal participant; I, my
group, etc
 Using chronological connection; then, first,
finally, etc
 Using action verb; look, go, change, etc
 Using simple past tense
 Circumstances of time and place

6. E XAMPLES AND STRUCTURES OF
THE TEXT
Orientation When I was in Junior High School, I used
to cycle went to school.
Event 1 One day when I was on my way to
school, I saw a girl with a long black hair
from the back side. I thought she was my
old friend.
Event 2 I called her loudly, “Miaa..!”. Then she
looked at me. I was so ashamed, she
wasn’t her. So I speeded up my bike and
went away.

7. TYPES OF RECOUNT
 Personal Recount: Retelling an activity
that the writer has been personally
involved (diary entry, biography)
 Factual Recount: Recording the
particulars of an incident (police report,
news report)
 ImaginativeRecount: Taking on an
imaginary role and giving details of
events.

13. Recount text is used to tell past experience
that is aimed to informing and entertaining.
Recount has 3 types; personal recount,
factual recount, and imaginative recount.
Narrative and recount are telling something
in the past, so narrative and recount usually
apply past tense.
The thing that makes narrative and recount
different is the structure in which they are
constructed. On recount there is no
complication among the participants and
that differentiates from narrative.

14. Thank You

15.  http://www.text-types.com/2011/01/text-types-recount.html
 http://www.cribd.com/
 http://www.enoktes.com/literaly-term/q-and-a/what-imaginative-
recount-110197