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
Personal Recount : retelling of an activity that the writer or speaker has been personally involved in (example: diary, anecdote)
Factual Recount : recording the particular of an incident (example: report of social experiment, police report, news report, historical account)
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 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

7. 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.

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 1st person.
It may be appropriate to include personal reaction

10. Modelling
EXAMPLE_RECOUNT.doc

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