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A recount is written in the past tense about events that have happened. Examples of texts that are recounts include: diaries, an account of a school event or school trip, an historical account of events, letters and postcards, newspaper articles and retelling well-known stories.

1. Recount
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2. Social Function
To record events for the purpose of informing
To tell what happened

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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

6. Linguistic Features
PERSONAL RECOUNT
-Use of 1
st
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

7. Linguistic Features
FACTUAL RECOUNT
-Use of 3
rd
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.

8. 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

9. Linguistic Features
IMAGINATIVE RECOUNT
-Usually written in the 1
st
person.
-It may be appropriate to include personal
reaction

10. Modelling
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11. 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