Recount Text

Recount text is the type of text retelling past events or experiences. Its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the audience. There is no complication among the participants, and that makes it different from narrative text.

The generic Structure of a recount text can be summarized as follows: its orientation usually introduces the participants, place and time; the contents are usually of events happening in the past; and the reorientation is usually stating the author’s personal comments towards the event.

The language features of a recount text are usually:

a) It introduces personal participants; such as I, my group, etc.

b) Chronological Connectors dominates the conjunctions.

c) The sentences are mostly in past tense.

Narrative and recount in some ways are similar since both tell about events happening in the past. Accordingly. Narrative and recount texts usually apply the past tenses. Their paragraphs are arranged in chronological order. Commonly, narrative texts can be found in story books, such as myth, fable, folklore, etc; while recount texts are customarily found in experience-sharing articles and biographies.

Narrative and recount texts are different in the structure in which they are constructed. While the former focuses on conflicts among the participants, the latter focuses on events happening to a particular character(s).