A. DEFENITION
Recount text is a text which retells events or experiences
in the past. Its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the readers. Recounts explores the series of events which
happened to participants. These events are the main element in composing
recount text. However, it just focuses on the events themselves. It does not
incude the conflict inside. Recount text emphazises in detail information of
the events. It reveals the series of events in chronological order based on
time or place.
B. GENERIC STRUCTURE
Generic structure of recount text are :
1. Orientation:
This part tells the readers the main idea of the story being
discussed in the text. This part also
gives a setting of the story, so that readers are awake of the story is about.
2. Event
(s) :
In this part, the story starts
froms the very early stages. That is to say, the story develops based on the
sequence of the events.
3. Reorientation
:
In this part, the writer summarizes the story and tells
his/her impression of the experience that what has been elaborated.
C. CHARACTERISTICS OF RECOUNT TEXT
a. a
recount text is a text that telling the reader about one story, action or
activity. Its goal is to entertaini ng or informing the reader.
b. Orientation
tells who was involed, what happened, where the events took place, and when it
happened.
c. Events
tell what happened and in what sequence.
d. Reorientation
consists of optional-closure of events/ending.
e. The
features are including who? Where? When? Why?, noun or pronoun, and past tense.
D. EXAMPLE
Example 1 :
Example 1 :
VISITING BALI
Last holiday, my friends and I visited Bali to spend our
holiday. We went there by airplane in the morning. We arrived at Ngurah Rai
Airport in the afternoon. It was our first experience actually. So, we were
very excited when we arrived there.
We
stayed at a big hotel around Kuta beach and took a rest for a while. After we
took a rest in the hotel, we had lunch at restaurant near the hotel. The foods
were delicious. After that, we walked around the beach, played volley ball, and
we were swimming while waiting for the sunset. When it set, the view was very
beautiful. Then, in the evening, we had dinner at a restaurant in the hotel.
They offered sea food. Emmmmm …… it’s delicious. After our stomach was full, we
went back to the hotel room. We chatted on the balcony of the room with a
beautiful sightseeing around it. After a long time until we felt sleepy, we
went to sleep.
In the morning, we prepared to go to
singaraja. It is a city of about 90 thousand people. It is a busy but quiet
town. The streets are lined with trees and there are many Old Dutch houses. The
next place we visited was Ubud. It was not to see the scenery but to see the
arts and the crafts of the island. The fist stop was at Batubulan, a center of
stone sculpture. There we watched some young boys were carving away at big
blocks of stone. The next stop was Celuk, a center for silversmiths and golden
smiths.
We went back to the hotel in the evening.
Even we were tired, we never forgot to go to the beach to see the view.
The next day, we spent our day by doing
some activities around the beach. We went swimming, surfing, playing ball, even
had luch there. And then, the next day was our last day in Bali. So we didn’t
forget to buy some cloths, handicrafts, even souvenirs for our parents,
brothers, and sisters. We checked out from the hotel in the afternoon after
having lunch and then we got ready to go back to Jakarta.
was such a wonderful experience I’ve ever
had.
LET’S
ANALYZE THE TEXT
1. Generic structure
Orientation : as we know that this part states about the introduction including
the participants and tells the readers the main idea of the story being
discussed in the text. It is shown by the sentences on paragraph one. In this
paragraph, it is written the participants (who), the place (where), and the
time (when).
Event(s) : In this part, the story starts from the very early stages that is
to say, the story develops based on the sequence of the events. The events on
the story above are shown on paragraphs two until five. They are about the
sequence of events that were experienced by the writer.
Reorientantion : in this part, the writer summarizes the story and tells his/her
impression of the experience that what has been elaborated. This part is shown
on the last paragraph.
2. The language features
a. Introducing personal participant : I, my
friends, we.
b. Using chronological connection : after,
after that, then, first.
c. Using linking verb : was, were
d. Using action verb : took, swimming,
walked, buy.
e. Using simple past tense : visited, went,
arrived, was, etc.
Example 2 :
Dear diary,
I will still smile now when I
remember the moment. My head was stuck between the bars of a hotel balcony when
we had a vacation. There were many people who helped me to get my head out of
the bars.
It was happened when I was about 5
or 6. My parents took us to a beautiful beach to spend our new year holiday. We
stayed in a hotel not far from the beach with my cousin coming along.
At that time I was walking around
with my brother and my cousin and I could not see the pool over the gate
because we were on the third floor. My brother and my cousin kept making fun of
how I was to short to see over the balcony.
I was so furious because they made
up things that they could not only see
the pool but also the beach. So, I stuck in the bars. I was panic because I
could not get my head out of it. Even, my brother had to call the maids in the
hotel to cut the gate and get my head out. There were three maids who helped my
head out of it.
When we met they still laughed at me
about that. How embarrassing it was
LET’S
ANALYZE THE TEXT
An
orientation : it tells about who and what happened
I will still smile now when I
remember the moment. My head was stuck between the bars of a hotel balcony when
we had a vacation. There were many people who helped me to get my head out of
the bars.
Events
: three paragraphs telling what happened
It was happened when I was about 5
or 6. My parents took us to a beautiful beach to spend our new year holiday. We
stayed in a hotel not far from the beach with my cousin coming along.
At that time I was walking around
with my brother and my cousin and I could not see the pool over the gate
because we were on the third floor. My brother and my cousin kept making fun of
how I was to short to see over the balcony.
I was so furious because they made
up things that they could not only see
the pool but also the beach. So, I stuck in the bars. I was panic because I
could not get my head out of it. Even, my brother had to call the maids in the
hotel to cut the gate and get my head out. There were three maids who helped my
head out of it.
Reorientantion :
When we met they still laughed at me
about that. How embarrassing it was
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