Social Function
  To record events for the purpose of informing
  To tell what happened
       Types of Recount
  a. Personal Recount : retelling of an activity that 
   the writer or speaker has been personally 
   involved in (example: diary, anecdote)
  b. Factual Recount : recording the particular of an 
   incident (example: report of social experiment, 
   police report, news report, historical account)
  c. Imaginative Recount : taking of an imaginary 
   role and giving details of events (example: a 
   day in life of a Roman slave)
        Generic Structure
  Orientation
   : giving the reader the background information 
   needed to understand the text
  Record (Sequence) of Events
   : a record of events in a chronological sequence
  Reorientation
   : closure of events 
  (Coda)*
   : comment on events
       Linguistic Features
  GENERAL
  →focus on specific participants
  →Past tense
  →Verbs of action
  →Use of temporal connectives to indicate 
   sequence of events
  →Circumstances of time and place
       Linguistic Features
  PERSONAL  RECOUNT
  - Use of 1st person pronouns (I, We)
  - Personal responses to the events can be 
   included, particularly at the end
  - Details are often chosen to add interest or 
   humour