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    A recount is a written or spoken narration of a past event. There are two main types: factual recounts where the writer was not involved, and personal recounts where they were. Both must have a beginning, middle, and end with a problem and resolution. Factual recounts use third person and past tense to objectively describe details. Personal recounts may use first person and a range of tenses to vividly describe the experience. Grammatical features like time words and conjunctions help establish a clear chronological order.

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    A recount is a written or spoken narration of a past event. There are two main types: factual recounts where the writer was not involved, and personal recounts where they were. Both must have a beginning, middle, and end with a problem and resolution. Factual recounts use third person and past tense to objectively describe details. Personal recounts may use first person and a range of tenses to vividly describe the experience. Grammatical features like time words and conjunctions help establish a clear chronological order.

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    Factual Recount-WPS Office

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    Factual 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 reflect and evaluate.

    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.

    There are five types of recount to consider.

    PERSONAL RECOUNT

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

    FACTUAL / NEWSPAPER RECOUNT

    Reports the particulars of an incident by reconstructing factual information e.g. police reconstruction of
    an accident, historical recount, biographical and autobiographical recounts. A factual recount is an
    objective recount of a true event by someone not personally involved in the situation. Its purpose is
    either to inform, entertain or both.

    IMAGINATIVE RECOUNT

    Applies factual knowledge to an imaginary role in order to interpret and recount events e.g. A Day in the
    Life of a German soldier, How I manned the first mission to the moon. An imaginative recount is the re-
    telling of events, usually in the first person. This style of recount allows for embellishment beyond facts
    and events- perfect for creative writing.

    PROCEDURAL RECOUNT

    Records the steps in an investigation or experiment and thereby providing the basis for reported results
    or findings. A procedural recount records events such as a science experiment or cooking. Procedural
    recounts present the events chronologically (in the order in which happened). The purpose of
    procedural recounts is to inform the audience.
    LITERARY RECOUNT

    Retells a series of events for the purpose of entertainment. A literary recount is like a factual recount.
    Both provide details about what happened, including who was involved, when and where the event took
    place, and what may have resulted. A literary recount can be about real or fictional events and
    characters.

    Personal Recount- A personal recount is when the writer is involved in the event. A personal recount
    has a beginning a middle and an end.

    Factual Recount- A factual recount is a recount where the writer is not in the recount but the structure is
    the same as a personal recount, because it has a beginning, middle and end.

    The difference between a personal recount and a factual recount is that a personal recount is a personal
    moment that you have experienced and a factual recount is when it's a moment that the writer has not
    experienced but has seen or thinks it is interesting to write about.

    Activity One -

    Watch the following Behind the News Clip about some children who came to Australia on the First Fleet
    in 1788.

    Once you have watched the clip write factual recount about this in your writing book.

    Make sure you...

    Start with a catchy lead (who, what, where, when, why?)

    Have a beginning, middle and end (first, next, then, after, finally)

    Zoom in and tell the most important parts

    Include true, exact details from the movie in your mind

    Use interesting word choices

    Spelling and punctuation count - use your editing checklist!!

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    Definition of the text type: A recount is a written or spoken narration of an event that happened in the
    past. There are two main kinds of recount:

    1) Factual recounts: These are used to record details and facts of a particular event which the speaker or
    writer has not necessarily been involved in.

    2) Personal recounts: These describe events that the speaker/writer was personally involved in. In
    written form this is usually autobiographical.

    All recounts need to have a problem which is resolved, so each recount type should have a beginning
    (exposition), a middle (the problem of the story), and resolution (solution to the problem posed).

    Aspects of the text type

    Context: recounts form part of everyday life, through letters, conversations, anecdotes, or chat shows.
    We are constantly recounting events to each other.

    Purpose: To relate, usually in chronological order, a sequence of past events.

    Audience: For personal recounts this will often be friends or colleagues making the recounts informal.
    Factual recounts may have an official audience such as the police or a judge.

    Writer-reader, speaker-listener relationship: If the writer/speaker knows the reader/listener the recount
    may form part of a friendly or family relationship. Factual recounts assume a far more distant
    relationship and will be more impersonal. Recounts will often be oral.

    Grammatical features:

    Factual recounts:

    a) use of passive as well as active verbs, for recounting and reporting

    b) use of indirect speech for reporting

    c) use of the past and past perfect tenses for retelling events and reporting speech

    d) emphasis on time expressions, conjunctions to denote sequence of events, prepositional phrases and
    prepositions of time

    e) coordinating and subordinating conjunctions with strong sense of sequence


    f) likely to be written in the third person (he/she/they)

    g) nouns, nouns phrases, adjectives and adjective phrases used to clarify events and people

    Personal recounts:

    a) a range of verb and verb phrases

    b) use of direct and indirect speech

    c) use of a wide range of tenses, particularly past tenses for narrative; possible use of the present tense
    for dramatic immediacy

    d) some use of time expressions to express chronology in retelling

    e) coordinating and subordinating conjunctions

    f) likely to be written in the first person (I)

    g) a wide range of nouns, noun phrases, adjectives and adjective phrases used to describe; likely to be
    largely realistic

    Chronological order and descriptive modifiers should be used to express clarity in this format.

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