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.

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.