Recount Texts Method

1.      The Meaning of Recount Texts

Recount text is a story telling, either fictional or factual. Fictional recount text is familiar to us from pleasure reading (novel, short stories, etc) television and film viewing. Meanwhile, factual recount text also tells a story is true, it actually happens to the writer. (Sani, 2005: 12)

According to Muhammad (1997: 26) states that recount is the telling or relating occurrence or series of events is a story. What makes a recount text different from a simple chronological listing is the writer use of details, reasons, and examples. That make episode come alive for the reader, giving a sense of immediacy and  sense of having been at the scene.

The recount text really brings the reader into the experience by providing details that give the sense of an action with complication  and resolution the reader can understand the feeling and reaction of the expectant.

Recount text is the mode of discourse that a present a sequence of event accruing over period of time, in telling story or relating events, it is useful organize the events in chronological order. (Nuruddin, 2005: 19).

2.      Composition Skills of Recount Text Writing

In composition recount text writing emphasize at adverbial clauses of time that is used to make relationship between two clauses clearer and tighter and adverbial clauses of time classifies and tightens the time the relationship of two clause adverbial. Clauses of time do not just express time alone, they express time in relation to the independence clause in the sentence. The time in adverbial clause of  time occur simultaneously with before or after the time in independent clause. (Heaton, 1981: 52)

The time sequence in the adverbial clause of time are:

a.       While: while, as. These subordinators often indicate that the action is in progress, therefore, the progressive tenses are frequently used with them. When the progressive is used in this adverbial clause, the simple tenses are often used in the independent clause.

b.      Before. These subordinators are used to indicate that the time in the adverbial clause occurs before or after the action in the independent clause.

c.       Until. These subordinators indicate that the time in the adverbial clause signals the end of the time in the independent clause.

d.      Since. These subordinators are used to indicate that the action in the independent clause began at the moment indicated in the adverbial clause and continuous in the present. The simple past is usually used in the adverbial clause; the perfect tenses are used in the independent clause.

e.       As soon as. These subordinators are used to indicate that the action in the independent clause will take place upon completion of the action in the adverbial clause. When is used less frequently in this way, if you want to make it clear that the action in the dependent clause will take place right after the action the adverbial clause, use as soon as or the moment that.