What is a Recount?
A recount retells an experience or an event that happened in the past. There are some types of recount. Some of them are personal recount and factual recount.
Personal Recount
It tells an activity that the writer has personally involved in, for example diary journal and personal letter.
Factual Recount
It reports the particular of an event by reconstructing facts, for example historical recount, biography, and autobiography.
This article will focus on the personal recount writing. Factual recount will be discussed in the next post.
Text Structure
Personal recount is divided into 3 parts. They are orientation, sequence of events, and reorientation.
Orientation
It gives the background information. This paragraph introduce What the event was, where it happened, when it happened, who involved. Sometimes, you can include why it happened.
Sequence of events
Events are identified and are told in chronological order.
Reorientation
In this paragraph, the writer expresses personal opinion regarding the event. Besides, the writer can recommend others, or tell what he or she learnt from that events.
Personal recount is mostly written in the first person "I". Although, it can be sometimes written in the third person, "he, she, they".
We use past tense to write a personal recount because it has already happened.
Personal recount is written in chronological order, in order in which they happened. Use time connectives such as first, next, then, eventually, and so on.
Below are the example of personal recount. Click on the title below to read them.
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