Reading 4.1- Body language that speaks to muggers

The argument which is being stated in the article is pedestrians may signal criminals that they are easy targets for mugging by the way they walk. From that argument, the evidence that we can find is a study by two New York psychologists, Betty Grayson and Morris Stein. Grayson is assistant professor of marketing while Stein is professor of psychology. They secretly video-taped people walking in Manhattan’s to see how the pedestrians walk. They tried out on a group of 12 prisoners to watch the video to differentiate on how muggable each person is. Regarding to the result of research, the evidence did support the argument.

Reading 4.3

Reading 4.3 is presented by Iman and Nini. Their presentation is short and simple. This topic is concerned with evidence’s issue on the kidnapping news, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh. Evidence is the information that gives strong reasons for believing an article. Two types of evidence are circumstantial and testimonial. Circumstantial evidence is when some particular case does not have any eye witnessed. The evidence based on findings. Testimonial evidence is when there were any alibis for some particular moment of the case.

Reading 4.4

The presenter for this topic is Ct-Z and Ann. they are doing well with a very clear explanation and they show how good they are when dealing with numbers. Statistic with a plural verb refers to information about any phenomenon. In singular sense, it denotes the art and science of collecting, presenting, analyzing and interpreting. Facts and figures related with statistics. In order to make a statistic, we need to get a true fact and a figure which is the number of the result in research. Fields that use statistics are government, business, research workers and literary field.

Reading 4.5

Now, Group 9, Anis and Sern present the topic of Crooked and Fallacious Thinking. Their presentation quite imbalance because they just finish their own part without helping each other. Crooked can be defined as something that is dishonest and fallacious thinking is wrong information. Crooked and fallacious thinking is also a manipulative tool that gives chances to the speakers or writers to influence or affect the judgement of their listeners or readers.

"Please,let me go to your school-Positioning"

The article describes Scarlett as if she had been treated unfair by the school. It is because she is handicapped and had not been accepted by the school. This can be proved by some statement, “Scarlett was born with a lesion in her spine that has caused paralysis of the feet and incontinence. But hers is a moderate disability, according to her mother, and she is able to walk short distances, and use ordinary toilets, and is not intellectually disabled”. From the article, its shows that the writer attack the school’s action and ask the school to give Scarlett chance to let her to study at The Hills Grammar School.

" Battling The Bullies - Perspective"

The stance taken in the article is the writer condemned the school because they didn’t take any pre-cautious step to overcome bullies. As we can see, the stance of the writer is negative. One of the examples is the writer quote a statement from Dr. Cross who says that “If they don’t have one the school’s not worth going to – there are going to be dramas there”. Means that, if the school doesn’t concern or take a serious action against the bullies, the number of bullying cases will increase sharply and widely without any stop. The writer believed that the school fails to maintain an active and open anti-bullying policy. For instance, Dr. Cross says, “This is a dynamite situation and has to be handled professionally. If not, the implications are severe”. To tell the truth, school should be like fanfare not the prison.

WEEK 3

As usual, there are two presentations in one week. This third week, turn to the presentation of some topics entitled ‘A Linguistic Perspective’ and ‘The Formation of Individuals in Discourse and Genre’. The first topic presented by me, myself and my friend Faiz. I think our presentation is excellent when Madam Yaya said it’s very good. It also can be seen after all of my classmate’s face seems satisfy and doesn’t look confuse when we elaborate the details. Under ‘Linguistic Perspective’, the main point is the five aspects of writing that are field, tenor, mode, genre and ideology. field means an area of knowledge, interest and study, tenor is the general meaning or character of something, mode is a manner of doing something, genre defined as type of art while ideology is a set of belief.

Second presentation is presented by Aien and Ekin. Their presentation from my view is not so good when they just read their long point and they make it harder for us to understand. It is all about the way of using language to describe character in their surrounding. The language used by the writer is making a comparison between two kinds of people that is described as Miss Seductress and Ms Winner. Example of language to illustrate the two misses as Miss Seductress touches everyone, give direct eye contact, make her body to do the talking but Ms Winner shows confident, relax posture, co-ordinate outfit and well-modulated conversation too.