Recount

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 Social Function
To record events for the purpose of informing
To tell what happened
 Types of Recount
a. Personal Recount : retelling of an activity that
the writer or speaker has been personally
involved in (example: diary, anecdote)
b. Factual Recount : recording the particular of
an incident (example: report of social
experiment, police report, news report,
historical account)
c. Imaginative Recount : taking of an imaginary
role and giving details of events (example: a
day in life of a Roman slave)
 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
 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
 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
 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.
 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
 Linguistic Features
IMAGINATIVE RECOUNT
- Usually written in the 1st person.
- It may be appropriate to include personal
reaction
 Modelling
• EXAMPLE_RECOUNT.doc
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