Recount Text

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in this third post, i will provide material about recount text

What is recount text . . . ? 

Recount text is a text that telling the reader about one story, action/activity. Or a text which retells event or experiences in the past. Its purpose to entertain or inform the reader. 

What are the generic structures of the Recount Text . . . ? 

- Orientation : It gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text, such as who was involved, where it happened, and when it happened.

- Events : A series of events, ordered in a chronological sequence.

- Re-orientation : A personal comment about the event or what happened in the end.

What is the purpose of the text . . . ?

To retell past experience

the example of biograpihchal recount

Recount Text Biography of Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was born near the end of the 1800s in Ulf, Germany. He graduated from the University of Zurich in Switzerland at age 26. That was also when he did his famous work in physics. Fourteen years later he won the Nobel Prize for Physics.
For the next ten years he lived in Germany and traveled a lot to talk to other scientists. Then in the early 1930s he had to leave Germany because of Hitler and the Nazi party. He moved to the United States. From that time until his death he lived in Princeton, New Jersey. He died at the age of 74.