Factual Recount: Biography

What is factual recount?

Factual recount reports the particular events by retelling facts or information. The writer tells the events that he/she has not been involved in that events. The objective of a factual recount is to inform a true event. 

Factual recount is written in the third person point of view. We use past tense to write a factual recount. One examples of factual recount is biography. 

Biography is a detailed description of someone's life. People who are written into a biography is usually someone who has made a great achievement and has made a contribution to the world. 

What information can you include in your biography?

Introduction
Introduce your subject in the first paragraph. tell who your subject is. What he/she is, e.g. an inventor of some technology, an athlete who has made amazing achievements, a scientist, a world leader, and many more. Next, tell why he/she is worth to write about.

Basic facts
In the next paragraphs, you can tell some basic information about the subject. You can inform the date and place of birth, parents and siblings, his or her educational background.

Events shaped the subject's life
In this paragraphs you can relates the subject journey to success. Tell his/her greatest achievement. Inform the lasting contribution to the world. Lastly, if the subject you write has dies, tell about his/her death.

Conclusion
In the last paragraph, tell why the subject is special or what people can learn from him/her.

Click the link below to see the biography example.
Ludwig van Beethoven