Introduction to Recounts

Recounts
Purpose: The purpose of a recount is to retell events.
The prefix re means again. So to recount is to state again.

Structure: There is often an opening or setting a of a scene. E.g. I went to the park.
The events in a recount are often in the order that they happen (Chronological order):

I went to the park and I saw a pond. The pond had ducks sitting at the side of it.

A recount will often have a closing statement. E.g. I left the park and went home.

Language features: Recounts are written in the past tense.
They can be written in the first or the third person
1st person It is happening to the person writing the recount i.e. I went to the park.
3rd person. An observer is telling it. Tom went to the park, there he saw a pond.
The connectives in a recount are often: Next, then, after that.
Recounts focus on what an individual or a group of people were doing.
The following are examples of recounts.

Newspaper reports
Diaries.