READING 6.1- ‘Invasion of the Baby Snatchers’

1. Topic
The article focuses on Kidnapping Child and isolated cases that had been increased tremendously and also involved the media participation.

2. Content
The article covers about the cases of child abductions that becoming serious. Some children that missing had been found when there’s publicity by media but some are not. But there also many neglected children cases that had been ignored and also do not have much coverage by the media.

3. Source
The article comes from the ‘TIME’ magazine on 26 August 2002, page 40, by Walter Kirn.

4. Audience
The article is written for public, parents and also media related people. This issue should be taken as a serious problem by public especially parents in order to make sure their children’s safety. Alongside, for media people is to make them alert with the neglected children cases.

5. The rhetorical functions
The article is designed to persuade, educate and warn the reader.

6. Purpose
The article aims to persuade the public that there are still many children out there who cannot be found, also to educate and warn parents about the abductions children. It is clear when the writer give an examples about the first case of kidnapping and murder of Danielle Van Dan in San Diego and the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart in Utah. For media people, to make them concern about the children that already ‘lost’ given it as important case too.

7. Perspective
The writer’s argument is condemning the media because they ignore the neglected issue, just focus on abductions children issue.

8. Positioning
The article describes the child of abductions are real unfortunate children after they have been killed by a cruel man.

9. Impact
The effect on readers is likely making the reader think twice about the issues that had been discussed in the article especially the hidden issues which is the neglected child. Everyone is busy talking about kidnapping child, child abduction but we are ignoring children that already ‘lost’.

10. Visual literacy
The visual aspects of the text are significant because the picture that the writer uses is clear and huge. The picture can make the reader wandering and its can attract the reader to read the article.

READING 5.2

The article entitled ‘Out of Puff’ is all about smoking issues especially among female. It is obvious shows that, the smoker among female are increased from year to year. Unfortunately, they realized that smoking is not good for their health but it just that they cannot stop it. Developing lung cancer, cancer of cervix and vulva, a greater risk of miscarriage, impact on fertility and menstruation, as well as harm unborn babies are all the bad effects of smoking. From the research, most female smoking given that they believed smoking can lose their weight. That’s why they keep smoking. Still in the article give some information to those who wants to stop smoking by go to the Nicotine Replacement therapy, medication and support.

Reading 5.4

The presenters of this topic are Fandi, Hafiz and Maryam. I can give a comment that three of them didn’t try to understand the keyword of their topic which is ‘Metaphor’. They duly discuss their topic together and come up with the best presentation. Reading 5.4 talk about ‘Metaphor’ in term of perspective and ideology in language. The writer focuses on the explanation of the relationship between the writer’s choices of metaphor and how these choices may influence the reader. Metaphor itself is a form of imagery in which something is called the thing that we are comparing it to. Metaphor also can be understood by the way of describing something by giving it the qualities of something else, as in our eagle-eyed readers soon spotted the mistake. Metaphor will require the writer to use one best word or one phrase to replace some particular sentence, which means avoid from use straight forward language to refer it.

Reading 5.3

The reading which is ‘Types of exposition: “persuading that” and “persuading to” were presented by Shima and Tyxx. Their presentation looked like “okey” from the beginning until the end but in my thinking there is something wrong about the truth of their content. I’m quite confused whether what they told us is really true, closely true, wrong or totally wrong. Thus, this topic described exposition with two types. Actually, exposition is one type of text.

They are ‘analytical’ and ‘hortatory’ expositions. Analytical functioning to persuade the recipient that something is true, while hortatory try to persuade the recipient to do something. After that, analytical expositions very related with academic speaking and writing compare to hortatory expositions that often used in political speeches, letters to the editor and office memos designed to change employee behavior.

Reading 5.1 – Australia’s methadone madness

Methadone is a drug, used by swallow once a day to stop heroin’s withdrawal symptoms. Methadone usually taken by the heroin addicts. The main usage of methadone is to fight the heroin but taking it regularly lead up to the negative effect. In fact, when someone is addicted with the methadone, the effect towards the user will be likely to depend overally to the methadone. In addition, if it use overly, it will not help to withdraw heroin and it totally opposed with the main reason of methadone which is to help people. Normally, methadone in a right dosage will make it as the most trustful saver for heroin’s addict. Unfortunately, it becomes very harmful and dangerous because the users misuse it.