WEEK 1

This week is totally very challenging to me because I had been given a bundle of assignment to be done though this semester just begin a few days. For CL (Critical Language) class, Madam Yaya, our lecturer had asked us to create a blog that cover the entire thing that we had learned in her class.

We start our first lesson with Unit 1. This unit requires us to master in the important elements of Critical Literacy. If we did not do that, we almost fail to triumph over this subject. This is because those 10 elements is the key of CL. First element is topic. The headline of the article is very important to give first preview to the reader. It will allow the reader to guest what the writer is going to tell them. It does not matter if it is right or wrong. Second, content should have the incidents or issue, participants, place, time and things that led up to the event. Third, source is where we can find the text. Fourth, audience is the target reader whether it is specifically or generally. Fifth, rhetorical function is connected with which kind of speech is the article. Sixth, purpose must have rhetorical function together with audience and topic. Seventh, perspective is the stance taken by the writer. Is she bias or fair, it’s up to her or him. Eighth, positioning will describe giving roles to the participant in the article. For instance, the statement ‘angel of death killer nurse’ describes Parry as a true killer but get free easily. Ninth, impact closely considers the use of language and the style of writing. Lastly, visual literacy is a relationship between headline and photo. Sometimes, the pictorial element is not ‘innocent’ and have strong power to effect the reader.

Other than that, we learn Reading 1.1 that is ‘Convicted Killer’. My view on this article is Deborah Parry is a murderer that should not be accepted back to work. People might afraid to get treatment from hospital if they find her at the same place with them. From my opinion, she should be punish by the offence that done by her. It’s truly unacceptable for a killer like her get so close with public because she might harm them anytime.

Besides, Chapter 1 is presented by Adini’s group which is including Adini, Slay and Efa. My comment for their presentation is some of them should not read everything from their own text but they should try to simplify the topic by using easy words. Although the article looks like very though but they can focus on what they understand. At least, we can gain something from their presentation rather than feel sleepy. Based on my own understanding, Chapter 1: Stories and facts are about similarities and differences between the main types of factual writing. The main types of factual writing are procedure, description, report, explanation and exposition. The example that given in the book also help me so much to understand the topic well.

Move to Chapter 2, the presenter are Nabilah, Liyana CMN and Alia. Their presentation is not going well because they seem to lose their point. It also affected after they just read their long notes in transparency paper. Their notes should be simplified to avoid us from become not too interest to listen their presentation at all. In Chapter 2, the topic is ‘Rules and regulations’. As I know, rules are instructions to make people behave in a kind of way that wanted by certain rules. However, regulations still not strict as rules. An example of rules is ‘You must wear black or white shoes in school’. For regulation, ‘Please turn off the light after you exit from this lab’. The intonation for two examples is totally different by the use of strict and soft words.