Recounts
Purpose: to retell events, telling what happened, a sequence of events
Examples
Structure
Language Features
- Personal story
- A ‘scene setting’
opening
- Past tense
- Diary
- Experiment
- Recount of events as
they occurred
- Retelling events
- In chronological order
- A biography or
autobiography
- A closing statement
summing up the main
points
- Newspaper article
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- First or Third person
- Use conjunctions
- Focus on specific people
or events, not general
topics