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1What is a Recount?Tells what happened.
Purpose is to document a series of events and evaluates their significance in some way.
2What is a Recount?Tells what happened.
Purpose is to document a series of events and evaluates their significance in some way.
3How do you write a Recount?1. Orientation providing information about ‘who’, ‘where’ and ‘when’;
2. Record of events usually recounted in chronological order;
3. Personal comments and/or evaluative remarks, which are interspersed throughout the record of events.
4. Reorientation, which ‘rounds off’ the sequence of events.
4What grammar do you use in Recounts?1. Use nouns and pronouns to identify people, animals or things involved.
2. Use action verbs to refer to events.
3. Use past tense to locate events in relation to speaker’s or writer’s time.
4. Use conjunctions and time connectives to sequence the events.
5. Use adverbs and adverbial phrases to indicate place and time.
6. Use adjectives to describe nouns.