ABSTRACT
A recount is an account of an event. It may be an account of a personal experience or the retelling of a factual event or incident. It may take the form of an account of a day's events, for example of a visit to a museum, and may be part of an autobiography, a letter or a journal or diary entry. This chapter discusses how a recount always has the same features. A recount consists of an introductory paragraph, followed by a number of paragraphs which present the events in chronological order and that there is a final concluding paragraph. The chapter examines that when people are writing a recount, they can easily fall into the trap of writing nothing sentences. There are many opportunities for writing recounts during history topics. Children can imagine that they were present and witnessed a historical event, such as the Fire of London, or a battle, such as the Battle of Hastings.
