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    Writing A Recount

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    The document provides information about writing a recount. It defines a recount as retelling a past experience or event to inform, entertain, or reflect on what happened. There are 5 types of recounts: personal, imaginative, literary, factual/newspaper, and procedural. The structure of a recount includes an orientation setting the context, a chronological retelling of events, and potential insights. Features include using past tense, proper nouns, active/passive voice, and connectives to link events and indicate time sequence.

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    The document provides information about writing a recount. It defines a recount as retelling a past experience or event to inform, entertain, or reflect on what happened. There are 5 types of recounts: personal, imaginative, literary, factual/newspaper, and procedural. The structure of a recount includes an orientation setting the context, a chronological retelling of events, and potential insights. Features include using past tense, proper nouns, active/passive voice, and connectives to link events and indicate time sequence.

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    The document provides information about writing a recount. It defines a recount as retelling a past experience or event to inform, entertain, or reflect on what happened. There are 5 types of recounts: personal, imaginative, literary, factual/newspaper, and procedural. The structure of a recount includes an orientation setting the context, a chronological retelling of events, and potential insights. Features include using past tense, proper nouns, active/passive voice, and connectives to link events and indicate time sequence.

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    Writing A Recount

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    Aily Cheong
    The document provides information about writing a recount. It defines a recount as retelling a past experience or event to inform, entertain, or reflect on what happened. There are 5 types of recounts: personal, imaginative, literary, factual/newspaper, and procedural. The structure of a recount includes an orientation setting the context, a chronological retelling of events, and potential insights. Features include using past tense, proper nouns, active/passive voice, and connectives to link events and indicate time sequence.

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    The key takeaways are the different types of recounts and the structure of a recount.

    The 5 types of recount are personal recount, factual/newspaper recount, imaginative recount, procedural recount, and literary recount.

    The 3 main parts of a recount structure are orientation, chronology, and insight.

    WRITING: RECOUNT

    • WHAT IS A RECOUNT?
    • A recount retells an experience or an event
    that happened in the past. The purpose of a
    recount can be to inform, entertain or to
    WRITING reflect and evaluate.
    RECOUNT • A recount can focus on a specific section of
    an event or retell the entire story. A recount
    should always be told in the order that
    things happened.
    5 TYPES OF RECOUNT

    Imaginative
    Personal recount Literary recount
    recount

    Procedural recount Factual/Newspaper recount


    • Retells an activity the writer has
    been personally involved in and
    may be used to build the
    relationship between the writer
    PERSONAL
    and the reader e.g. anecdote,
    RECOUNT
    diary journal, personal letter.
    These usually retell an event
    that the writer was personally
    involved in.
    STRUCTURE OF A RECOUNT

    ORIENTATION

    Explain the who, what, when, where of the experience in your introduction.

    CHRONOLOGY

    Events are described in the sequence in which they occurred.

    INSIGHT

    Include personal comments, opinions or interpretations of the recounted experience or event.


    STRUCTURE OF A RECOUNT

    FOCUS
    Only significant events are included
    ORGANIZATION
    Relevant information is grouped in paragraphs
    FEATURES OF A RECOUNT

    TENSE
    First and third person are commonly used and recall is always written in past tense.
    Present tense can be used for analysis and opinion.

    NOUNS
    Use proper nouns to refer to specific people, places times and events

    VOICE
    Both active and passive voice are used in recounts

    CONNECTIVES
    Use conjunctions and connectives to link events and indicate time sequence
    WHAT TO WRITE?

    Who were the main


    Where did it take
    What occurred? When did it occur? characters / people
    place?
    involved?

    What are the


    What were some of the
    concluding thoughts or
    Why did certain things How did things reactions to the events
    ideas you want to
    happen? happen? that occurred in your
    leave with your
    recount?
    readers?
    INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE SCENE

    • Give detail of :
    • Who?
    • What?
    • Where?
    • When?
    • Why?
    EVENTS: WHAT HAPPENED (IN
    CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)

    • What happened? • After


    • First • Later
    • Next • Eventually
    • Soon • Finally
    • During
    CONCLUSION

    • What did you think, feel or decide about the


    events that happened
    IMPORTANT

    • Most commonly in a recount you will be recounting in the first


    person.
    • Recounts are always written in past tense so be conscious to
    stay in this tense right throughout. Everything has already
    happened so ensure your vocabulary reflects this
    • Keep everything in chronological order in a recount and use a
    variety of time transitional terms and phrases to keep your
    audience engaged throughout.

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