This document defines and discusses the elements of a recount text. A recount text tells about a past event or experience in chronological order to inform and entertain readers. It typically includes an orientation about who was involved and when and where the event took place, a series of events ordered sequentially, and a re-orientation with a concluding comment. Common language features include using personal pronouns, chronological connectors, linking verbs, action verbs, and past tense. An example recount describes a holiday visiting Cleveland, Hollywood, and New York City.

1. RECOUNT
TEXT
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2. DefiniTIon, TYpes, PuRposes,
GeneRIcSTRucTuRes, Language
FeaTuRes

3. D E F I N I T I O N
Recount text is a text that
telling the reader about one
story, action or activity".
Usually, recount text tells an
event or experience that
happened in the past

4. TYPES OF RECOUNT TEXT
Personal recount
Factual recount
Imaginative

5. PURPOSE
The purpose of communication
from a recount text is to tell an
experience or event that
occurred in the past with the
aim of entertaining and
informing the reader.

7. ORIENTATION
tells who was involved, what
happened, where the events took
place, and when it happened.

8. EVENT S
abc
A series of events, ordered in a chronological
sequence.

9. RE-ORIENTATION
A personal comment about the event or what
happened in the end.

10. LANG
UAG
EFEAT
URES
Introducing personal participant;
I, my group, etc
Using chronological connection;
then, first, etc
Using linking verb; was, were,
saw, heard, etc
Using action verb; looked, went,
changed, etc
Using simple past tense

11. Last summer I got a fantastic holiday. I visited some great places.
I went to an airport and was going to fly to Cleveland. I was spending
there two days. I liked to see some Cleveland Cavaliers basketball
matches.
Then I went to Hollywood. Hollywood is a famous district in Los Angeles,
California, United States. It had become world-famous as the center of
the film industry. Four major film companies – Paramount, Warner Bros.,
RKO and Columbia – had studios in Hollywood. I did not want to leave but
I had to.
After that, I went to New York city. I visited the Statue of Liberty. I went
from the bottom of Manhattan to the top of the crown. That was very
amazing.
The places made me feel at home but I have to go home. Next time I
would return to them.

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