Recount

RECOUNT adalah jenis teks yang berisi tentang kegiatan yang sudah dilakukan di masa lalu secara berurutan.  Contohnya adalah teks yang menceritakan pengalaman seseorang, biasanya berupa liburan atau kunjungan ke suatu tempat, yang diceritakan secara detail, artinya jika liburan selama seminggu, maka teks tersebut berisi tentang kegiatan-kegiatan yang dilakukan mulai dari hari pertama, kedua, ketiga, dan seterusnya hingga liburan berakhir.  Contoh lain dari teks recount adalah teks atau tulisan yang ada di diari.  Selain itu juga ada teks “laporan harian polisi” mengenai suatu kejadian yang diceritakan secara terperinci juga disebut sebagai teks recount.

 

Genre                      : Recount

Social function    : To tell the readers what happened in the past through a

                                     sequence of events

Text organization:

1.      Orientation

        (Who were involved in the story, when, and where)

2.      Events

        (Tell what happened in a chronological order)

3.      Evaluation

        (Comments of the writer/speaker due to the experience)

4.      Re-orientation

        (Optional – The conclusion on the experience)

Untuk menghasilkan teks recount, ada 4 tahap yang bisa ditulis, yaitu:

1. Pertama, kita harus memperkenalkan atau menceritakan orang yang terlibat dalam cerita, keterangan tempat, dan waktu (Orientation).

2. Kemudian kita menceritakan semua kegiatan yang terjadi secara berurutan, biasanya kita menggunakan kata first, then, next, etc.(Events).

3. Kita bisa memberikan komentar terhadap suatu kejadian, biasanya untuk pengalaman pribadi  atau personal recount, contohnya What a beautiful beach, or How cute he was (Evaluation)

4. Kemudian diakhiri dengan simpulan atau perasaan penulis tentang pengalaman tersebut, contohnya: I was so happy, or We were so tired (Re-orientation)

Contoh teks recount mengenai pengalaman seseorang mengunjungi suatu tempat: 

My Day at the Beach

 

 

Last week my friend and I were bored after three weeks of holidays, so we rode our bikes to Smith Beach, which is only five kilometres from where I live (Orientation).  When we arrived at the beach, we were surprised to see there was hardly anyone there.  After having a quick dip in the ocean, which was really cold, we realized one reason there were not many people there.  It was also quite windy.

After we bought some hot chips at the takeaway store nearby, we rode our bikes down the beach for a while, on the hard, damp part of the sand.  We had the wind behind us and, before we knew it, we were many miles down the beach.  Before we made the long trip back, we decided to paddle our feet in the water for a while, and then sit down for a rest.  While we were sitting on the beach, just chatting, it suddenly dawned on us that all the way back, we would be riding into the strong wind. (Events)

When we finally made it back home, we were both totally exhausted!  But we learned some good lessons that day. (Re-orientation)