Overall of the Critical Literacy

Assalamualaikum Mdm. How are you today? Hope you are in a good condition. Today, I want to conclude overall of our discussion on Critical Literacy subject that consist of 8 blogs which are reading 1.1 (Convicted killer), reading 2.1 (Battling the bullies), reading 3.1 (Please let me go to your school), reading 4.1 (Body language that speaks to muggers), reading 5.1 (Australia’s methadone madness), reading 6.1 (Invasion of baby snatchers), reading 7.1 (Dieting) and reading 8.1 (Drugs or guns). At first, when I heard about Critical Literacy subject, I’m scared. This is because everyone said that this subject is difficult to catch up on. This is maybe because Critical Literacy is a new subject for semester four which is different from all semester three’s subjects. Besides, we need to think critically. Actually, I’m not that good in critical thinking but I tried my very best to finished all the assessment that was assigned for me by Mdm Imasuzieyana Ibrahim. When I have finished the part of doing assignment and homework in the classroom, I always feel like whether what I’m doing is true or not. I always confused with the work that I have done. Then, I will ask my friends and Mdm itself to clarify whether the work that I have done is true or not. And then, they will tell me briefly about something that I need to know. I’m always wondering whether they like it or not when I’m always and keep asking questions to them. I hope that my friends and Mdm itself would not get mad of me or maybe bored to explain even single and easy problems to me. From this Critical Literacy subject, I found that I have better improvement in reading skills by applying skimming and scanning skills of the text. From the skimming and scanning skills, I could complete the ten elements that are required by the text or article. I also know about the meaning of the glossary that was provided in the blue book by referring to the red book which is the text book of Critical Literacy. From the first till the last article given to me, I started to learn more and more about Critical Literacy subject. It becomes interesting from time to time doing the ten elements. Sometimes I also feel like bored, stress and tension when I have to finish the ten elements that required me to think critically. And I think that it is one of the toughest and challenging subject to me in semester four. After we have finished this Critical Literacy subject, I feel so relieve because I do not have to think critically anymore. But I think that I’m going to miss doing the ten elements by think critically using my useful brain. Hehehe. Overall, this subject is interesting. This Critical Literacy subject also improves my reading and writing skills. By reading the text or article, I started to know and learn on how the sentence structured such as it using present or past tense to structure the sentences. Furthermore, I also can improve my grammar. Besides, I’m also being able to expand and increase my vocabulary by doing the ten elements and blogs. Actually, I would love to continue typing, comment and give response to fill in this blog but then I’m a bit sleepy right now. Shall we continue for the next blog???? But there is no more blog right????? Hehehe…Anyway, I want to thanks to Mdm Imasuzieyana Ibrahim for taught us a lot about Critical Literacy that is very critical to explain too. Also thank you for your hard work for teaching us in the class. I could see your efforts that want to explain more and more in order to make us understand on particular topics. I hope that you are satisfied with every inch of my comment and responses in my blogs and also my assignment and assessment in the classroom. I also would like to ask for more marks from you. Hehehe. Take care Mdm. Bye bye...

reading 8: Drugs or Guns

Assalamualaikum and good afternoon to Mdm Suzie. Here I would like to comments and responses to the article in the text book which is “Drugs or Guns”. Drugs or guns? What it is all about? When I first read the article, I don’t know what it wants to conveyed. Even though I have read it for the second time, I still could not reach the message conveyed in the text. I also ask a few of my friends regarding the Drugs or Guns and they said that the article is about the South African government that faces two legal cases challenging its priorities which are arms and AIDS. After I’ve read it several times, I did understand a bit about the article. What I got and know from the article is that one common argument from the plaintiffs is that scrapping the arms deal would give the government the money it says it doesn’t have for a national anti-AIDS program. From this argument, I can see that South Africa’s President, Thabo Mbeki is not responsible toward its own government. It is because, it is seems like he is more into buying the arms rather than treat the AIDS patient and rape victims. I don’t think that he is a good president as he did not play his role as a president of South Africa effectively.

The arms purchase has been mired in complaint and contention from its beginning 1999. as soon as the government opened the bidding process for submarines, corvettes, trainer jets and fighter planes from British, Swedish, German and Italian suppliers, political opponents of Mbeki’s ruling African National Congress and several NGO’s questioned the necessity of the deal. That is because they cannot see the necessity of a $ 6 billion weapons-acquisition deals. But, an opponent Pan-African Congress Member of Parliament, Patricia de Lille, claimed she had been given a tip about high-ranking officials who had benefited from the arms deal. After Tony Yengeni, the A.N.C.’s chief whip and head of the party defense committee was alleged of obtained a cut-price Mercedes-Benz from a company with links to the arms deal, Yengeni and a German executive from the company were charged with corruption and forgery. They face trial next year but deny any wrongdoings. It is also convey the message about AIDS. The government’s policy on AIDS was also under attack last week, this time from the Treatment Action Campaign, an AIDS-awareness group supported by civil, trade union and church organizations.

The judgment in the TAC case, due before Christmas, could well favor the AIDS activists because the judge has already indicated his support for making the drug widely available as soon as possible. If so, it will a slap in the face of Mbeki, whose controversial stance on the causes and treatment of AIDS has become a national talking points. When he recently cited six-year-old statistics to claim that violence took more lives in South Africa than AIDS, the national Medical Research Council confirmed that AIDS is indeed the country’s leading killer. A Committee led by female A.N.C.M.P.s last month called on the government to revise its HIV/AIDS policy and freely provide antiretroviral drugs to pregnant women and rape victims. Crawford-Browne also said that the government has no justification in spending $ 6billion on weapons for a country unlikely ever to confront a foreign military threat. A German firm involve in the weapons agreement has promised to build a factory in the Eastern Cape to produce condoms for South Africa’s safe sex campaign.

i think that is all for today because i don't know what to write more in this "Drugs or Guns". thank you.

reading 7: Dieting

Assalamualaikum and good evening. Hi Mdm. Today, I would like to comment and response to the article of Dieting: A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind. This article covers a wide range of current issues relating to the phenomenon of weight control issue relating to physical and mental health, as well as the part played by commercial providers of weight loss products. The author also provides up-to-date information based on recent research into weight loss. The text is taken from “What you can change and what you can’t in The complete guide to self-improvement, by Martin Seligman. In Dieting, Martin Seligman informs people about the dangers and pitfalls of commercially available weight loss programs. He also provides an extended warning to readers that they should believe the claims made by commercially-driven product providers. Seligman suggest that there may be good evolutionary reasons for the more-you-lose-the-more-you-gain principle. It means that if we try to lose weight, our bodies’ rebel.

However one point which needs further explanation is what he means by ‘natural weight’. He does not really define this term and one is left with the feeling that ‘natural weight’ is the weight you happen to be. On the other hand, he does say that ‘natural weight’ is the weight from which point is difficult to reduce. Seligman itself also failed in attempts to lose his weight. He said that one cannot avoid the suspicion that the term ‘natural’ has been coined to provide an excuse for his own inability to attain the ‘ideal’ weight. Seligman without doubt views weight loss as a matter of commercial gain rather than as medical advantage. In addition, the real beneficiaries of weight loss products are not the consumers, who may indeed be harmed, but the unscrupulous producers who earn their living from exploiting the insecurities of others. The consumers are cast as victims, unable to resist the pressure to be dissatisfied with their own bodies. Seligman argues strongly that weight loss is not a matter of will power but depends on accepting our ‘natural’ weight. It follows that people who fail to lose weight are not their fault. at first glance, overweight people may not appear to have any problems, but behind their chubby faces and pot-bellies, they are just medical time-bombs waiting to go off.

An overweight person has increased risks of failing prey to hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular problems, cancer and many other debilitating disease. these potentially deadly conditions are in addition to the sheer weight that the person have to lug around everyday, making it hard to walk for a distance, climb stairs, or even just to get up from a chair. As for me, I think it is no fault to be in average size because there are people who do not like their body shape even though their shape is already suits them but still they feel uncomfortable with their body shape. Sometimes I also feel like my body shape not suits me because I think that from day to day, I become fat and fatter. I insist on taking dieting pills but I’m scared with the effect that perhaps would bother me in the future. But still I’m trying to use the cream that will decrease my weight and my mom is like an assistant to me because she is helping me in finding the cream that could decrease my weight even though at first, she told me that I don’t need the cream as I’m not too fat. As for the people who have weight problems, i think that it is better for them to find any solution such as taking dieting pills but with the doctor's instruction because if the taken of dieting pills were overdose, it might have side effects on the health problems on the body itself.

Being weight is certainly no fun, and is definitely hazardous to health. unless the person has some kind of illness that causes him or her to be overweight, it is possible to reduce one's weight with proper diet and exercises. It is better to keep within the normal range and stay healthy as much as possible. Living is much more pleasant and enjoyable without weight problems. Actually I would like to comment more but I think this could be enough to read by everyone especially Madam. Hehehe. Thank you for your attention. Hope we could have a briefly conversation regarding this topic that I think is interesting to be shared in the next class.Bye bye… =D

reading 6 role play n invasion of baby snatchers

Assalamualaikum and good evening to Mdm Suzie. Last week, we have done the role play that was assigned by you which are based on 5 articles. They are Without Any Warning, burning out at 9, Gangsterism in School, Out Of Puff, and Post Apocalypse. ‘Without Any Warning’ were presented by Saybah’s group which are Saybah as business owner, Fairuz as the consumer, Hanis as the reporter, Kaka as JBA Officer and Ash as Semambu assemblyman. Their role play is about the water cut that were facing by residents. JBA did not inform the business owner, consumer and Semambu assemblyman earlier about the water supply that had been cut. Due to the water cut, it causes dissatisfaction among all consumers. It is because when there is no water, they cannot do anything such as cook, wash and others. As for the business owner of laundry, the clothes that have been sent to the laundry shop cannot be washing due to the water cut. They acted very well and I can easily understand their role play.

As for Burning Out at 9, it was presented by Nadia’s group which is Nadia as pusher man, Ain as the adviser, Mira as the caller, Anis as the caller and Ain Azmi as flexible mom. Burning Out at Nine is about children or teenagers nowadays that did not have enough time to play. Their schedule is full with work. Besides, they have a strict parent who just wants their children to be perfect without give their children spaces to live normally like other children or teenagers. They also do a forum. I cannot clearly hear their voice as their voice is slow but their presentation is also interesting.

Gangsterism in School was acted by Leah, Nana, Alin, Sofia and Ika. All of them are the bully except Nana, as the victim of the bully. This article is about 4 bullies that bullied someone in school. They asked money from the victim but the victim did not give the money to all bullies. Because of that, the victim was physically abused by the bullies. From there, I can see that everyone now seems not afraid of bully someone. They did not think of the effects that they will get if they bully someone. I think their role play is the best because all of them give full cooperation and it look alike the real situation.

Shah’s group was presented on ‘Out Of Puff’. As for this group, they presented in a forum style. They are 5 members in the group that play different character which are Mino as the host, Agus as the Marlboro manager, Shah as Lisa’s father, Nana as Lisa and Wan as the counselor. This group are present about the effect of smoking, how to get rid from it and others. This article stated that the tobacco industry has engineered cigarettes and targeted their marketing specifically at women during the past few decades. It also discuss on how to get rid and avoid from smoking such as nicotine replacement therapy, medication and support. Besides, they also discuss about what smoking does. For example, tobacco smoke irritates the mouth, throat and lungs because it has a direct toxic and inflammatory effect on these organs. This group presented almost well because there are few of them plays around while the discussion was on progress but overall their role play is quite good too as the audience can understand it.

My group has presented about the ‘Post Apocalypse’. My group members play different role which are Z as the IT expert, Dinie as the blog commenter, Ida as comment reader, Ain as the video publisher and me as the blog publisher. The Post Apocalypse is about the web that needs commenters but they ruining the Net faster than they can save it. Serious comment from the blog commenter to the blog that had been published by the publisher is actually leads to the damage. Blog publisher had quit her job because she could not stand with the commenter anymore. As for our group, I think that our group did not present well. That is maybe because we did not practice well before we do the role play but I hope Mdm enjoyed watching our role play last week.

As for the ‘Invasion of the Baby Snatchers’, it discuss about the child abduction that seems rampant and about the other lost children because of kidnapping, murder, missing and so on. For me, I think these should not be happened because the children have their own parents. The parents should play their role as a parent effectively such as accompany their children wherever they go because nowadays there are lots of cases involving kidnapping, murder, missing and others. They should take any precaution and be aware with the situation nowadays. As for children, they tend to play around with their friends without think of the effect they will get. Obviously, they could not think as they still a child. They just want to enjoy their day and life as much as they can. Here, I would like to be a little bit bias. I want to condemn and comment about parents nowadays that seems do not know on how to take care of their own children. I also want to condemn and comment about the police. I think they did not do their job well because the kidnappers, murderers and so on still can enjoy their freedom. How come????

I think that is all for today’s comment and responses. Thank you Mdm.

reading 5

Assalamualaikum madam…. How are you today??? Hope you are in a good condition…today, I will briefly share my understanding regarding unit 5 which is Audience and Impact. This unit focuses on how we go about establishing who the audience is, and calculating the likely effect a text will have. Such texts may touch the lives of people who may not have been intended as the audience. Likewise, we should be cautious about judging the impact of texts as readers will vary considerably in the resources they bring to understanding and responding to texts. In unit 5, there are 3 reading that need to be cover on consist of reading 5.1, 5.3 and 5.4.
Reading 5.1 is discussed about ‘Australia’s methadone madness’. This reading is about types of drugs and the effects of taking drugs. There are also researches that have been done on the methadone madness by expert. Nowadays, there are lots of people especially teenagers involve in taking drugs, being a drug dealer and so on. This is maybe because they are influence with their surroundings. Thus, there should be prevention so as not to involve many more people with drugs.
Reading 5.3 is discussed on types of exposition: “persuading that” and “persuading to”. In this chapter, Martin focuses on a type of text he terms ‘exposition’. He distinguishes between two types of exposition based on differences in the purposes they achieve. The two types he identifies are ‘analytical’ and ‘hortatory’ expositions. Analytical expositions are often associated with academic speaking and writing. Hortatory expositions include texts such as political speeches, letters to the editor and office memos designed to change employee behavior. As for this reading, I can understand the explanation from Dinie’s group which discussed on exposition, thesis, analytical exposition, hortatory exposition, objective, subjective and metaphor. But I have to read more since it may slip from my mind.
Reading 5.4 is about metaphor that has been discussed and presented by Saybah’s group. This reading focuses on explaining the relationship between the writer’s choices of metaphor and how these choices may influence the readers. Metaphor plays a key role in enabling us to talk about and construct the world and allows language users the flexibility to cope with rapidly changing circumstances. When we encounter anything new, we inevitably seek to explain it in terms of things with which are already familiar. I do understand with this reading. But actually I quite confuse with this reading. But then, after they explained more, I started to understand the key terms and ideas such as metaphor, polysemy, cognitive and so on. Same with the previous reading, I need to study more and more to enhance my knowledge. Thanks guys.
As for madam, I hope you really enjoy read my comment and responses. Feel free to comment back yaa….and also thanks for your lesson in the class madam….it’s quite interesting. …=D

reading 4

Assalamualaikum Mdm. Evening. What are you doing? if u don’t mind, I want to bother you for a minute to read and comment on my latest blog which focuses more on unit 4 that is argument and evidence: what is the argument and what evidence supports it? The first thing that I have learnt in this unit is about these concepts which not every text includes argument and evidence. Generally, these are found in texts which present a case, typically for or against a proposition. These texts are found throughout academic journals of all disciplines, policy documentation, and legal literature as well as reports of many varieties.

We have already read reading 4.1 that discussed on “body language that speaks to muggers”. In this text, it discussed about pedestrians that may signal criminals which that they are easy targets for mugging by the way they walk. For me, people especially pedestrians must beware and always alert with their surroundings when they are going somewhere. They can give the muggers the chance to rob by the way they walk. Prison inmates who had been convicted of assault, the most qualified to judge the muggability of city pedestrians. There are scale rating ‘assault potential’ basis of Grayson and Stein. In the article, it also shares about the several movements characterized as easy victims. From that information, people can be aware and more cautious when they are at any places.

In reading 4.3, chapter 5 that discussed on what is the evidence? It is concerned with the issue of evidence. From the reading, I know that evidence is information that gives a strong reason for believing or prove. It is also an answer to a question that describes an event at which one present. For the evidence, it has two types which are circumstantial evidence and testimonial evidence. Circumstantial evidence was like a mute witness, pointing to someone with the unspoken words. Meanwhile, testimonial evidence is eyewitnesses, who testify that they themselves have seen the accused commit the crime.

We also have discussed about statistics in reading 4. This chapter concerned with the use and misuse of statistics and is intended to caution readers into amore informed response to texts that link facts and figures. It begins by defining terms, mentioning a number of domains where statistics are widely used. The word ‘statistics’ has two meanings. When it is used with a plural verb, it refers to information about any phenomenon or activity expressed a numerical form. In its singular sense, it denotes the art and science of collecting, presenting, analyzing and interpreting numerical data. The importance of statistics is, it is easy to use (the basis) of rational decisions and conclusions. I did understand about this topic after it has been more explained from Ain, Mira and Anis. I think this topic is easier that other topics that has been presented by other groups previously.

Reading 4.5, Crooked and fallacious thinking has been discussed by Farah Hanis, Nana and Fairuz. These two chapters argue that crooked and fallacious thinking is not only evidence of illogical mental processes and poor communication skill but is also a manipulative tool of speakers or writers that wish to influence and affect the judgment of their listeners or readers. In other words, there is intent to persuade someone towards a particular belief or course of action. This topic is a little bit confusing actually but I will try to read it more to gain more understanding in it.

I think that is all for now. Feel free to comment my blog. Tata..titi..tutu..=D

reading 3

Assalamualaikum Mdm. How r u today??? Hope you’re doing fine because I need you to check and comments on my third blog and topic. As you know, our class, Decom 4B had spent one whole week in reading, viewing, presenting and discussing on the third topic which is positioning: how does the writer construct the participants in the text and how is the readers constructed? As for this topic, it had introduced me to a new whole new way of approaching and focusing on the positioning in Critical Literacy. It also provides me with extra practice in applying the core skills that involved in Critical Literacy such as positioning. In particular, the text had been accentuating the role played by positioning in understanding text.

In the class, we were given the articles to explore and to be critical on the article titled ‘Please Let Me Go to Your School’ and ‘Truth about Youth’. For the article Please Let Me Go to Your School, it want to inform the readers about a discrimination case against The Bulkham Hill Grammar School for refused to accept Scarlett Finney who is suffering from a physical disability. For me, I think it is unfair for the school for not to let Scarlet Finney in and attend the school as other disabilities students did because the school’s prospectus already stated that the school will accept disability students but at the end, the school refusal to accept Finney.

The other article which is the ‘Truth about Youth’ wants to inform us about the problems that the youngster are facing which can lead to a huge impact to their lives and also to the people around them. As for me, students who are facing any problems should refer or go and having small talk with their teachers and parents. Discuss about the problems they are facing instead of doing something stupid like commit suicide. It is very stupid things to do for educated people. Besides, there are ten elements that we should consider of in reviewing those articles. The article Please Let Me Go to Your School is much easier than the article Truth about Youth. For me, the article is a bit difficult to understand and it is difficult to identify the writer’s position in the text but I’ve tried my best to complete all the ten elements in it. Hope Mdm would satisfy and please let me know if I’m doing any mistakes so that I can consult with you and could do better in the next ten elements.

The third topic has two types of reading by two different authors which is reading 3.3 written by Wignell (1995), ‘Critical Literacy a Linguistic Perspective’ and the second one is reading 3.4 written by Kress(1994), ‘Speech and Speakers’. From the first reading, Wignell’s approach is to develop the linguistic tools readers need to enable them to recognize certain global or key elements of a text. Wignell’s aim is to discover elements of the language so as to dig out the ideology that exists, as it ideology may in fact be shown to be highly ideological. From this first reading, I just can understand a bit from Shah and Minor’s presentation.

For the second reading, Kress shows how texts construct particular identities for their readers through a process called positioning. He describes how texts introduce readers into particular value systems as well as certain norms and modes of behavior. In explaining how texts achieve this, Kress introduces and clarifies a number of important terms. This reading 3.4 presented by Leah, Pia and Ika is quite easy to understand as they had stated the example clearly.

that's all for now....
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reading 2.1 battling the bullies

Assalamualaikum and good evening to Madam Imasuzianna. As for today, I would like to comment and response to the Unit 2 which focus on Perspectives: What stance does the writer take in the text? This unit will focus on developing our skills in the ten elements introduced in unit 1. In particular, this unit emphasized the role of perspective in determining a critical understanding of the text. They are 3 questions that we have focuses on this unit. The first question is what stance is taken in this text, second, what does the stance tells us about the writer or producer’s belief and the last one is what implications does this have for our understanding of the text. We have acknowledged that this unit just focuses on writers and our perspective. In reading 2.1, we have learned about the article titled ‘battling the bullies’ by Martina Simos on 2003, April 8 in the ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper at page 31. From the article, we have got lots of things, knowledge, and perspective. As for me, I hate bullies so much because it is like the bully has full authority to harass and physically abuse the victim as their victims are weak and that is maybe because they think that they are stronger than the victims.

I have an experience to share with you and others about the case of bullying. I have a best friend, named Iqbal. He told me that he always been bullied by 3 friends from other classes. It actually just began with shoving. Then the bully started hitting him as and when they felt like it. He did not fight back nor did he tell his parents or teachers because he did not want to cause any trouble. So he endured the bullying for a few weeks. Gradually the bullying got worse and he think that he has to face the bully, for better or for worse. So, during recess one day, the bully came to him. At that time, he was ready to fight back with a short stick hidden behind his back. The bully came with clenched fists but before he could land a punch, Iqbal lashed out with a stick on the bully’s leg. The bully cried out in pain and collapsed o the ground. Iqbal raised the stick to strike again but stopped when he saw that the bully was crying and begging him for mercy. After that, teachers and prefects arrived to see what the commotion was all about. He and the bully were taken to the headmaster’s office and each given two cuts for fighting. It was worth it. The bully never troubled him again.


From that, I can tell that if someone has been bullied, they should inform other people such as parents, teacher and friends, so that they can take any preventions or precautions earlier because prevention is better than cure. As parents, they should play their role effectively such as care enough and concern about their children’s daily life. They should be closed to their children, so that their children will tell them if something goes wrong. Same goes to the teacher and friends. They should notice what is going on around them so that they can the precautions and preventions earlier. This is because schoolyard bullying is not a new issue. It happen everyday at school, whether someone will be abuse physically and mentally. Bullying can give big impact to the people and the victim itself. They will get anger, depress, anxiety and others. Bullying among students can be perceived as uneducated people. It shows that the bully has bad attitude, destructive past life and maybe the bully comes from a bad and trouble background family.

Reading 2.2, in chapter 5, we have discussed on language, perspectives and ideology. We already know about the meaning discussed on glossary which are ideology, perspective, metaphor, metonymy, euphemism, diachronic perspective, equivocation and attenuate. They are certain meaning that I do not understand such as attenuate but I will read more to get and know on it meaning. For the reading 2.3, my group has presented about signifier, signified, paradigmatic, syntagmatic, semiotic, connotation, denotation and myth. For this reading 2.3, I do not truly understand on paradigmatic, syntagmatic and semiotic. I have asked my friend but still don’t understand. Hope madam can give the meaning and more examples on these three glossaries. I think that’s all that I want to share with you. So, see you in the third blog. Tata…=D

reading 1.1 convicted killer

Assalamualaikum and very good evening to Mdm. Imasuzianna, lecturer of Critical Literacy subject. I’m Iylia Diyana Mohd Kamal from Decom 4B. Here I would like to comment and response on the task based on the unit 1 that is “An introduction-who produced this text, for whom and why?” The introduction to stage 1 introduce me to a whole new way of approaching a text critically. When I first heard about Critical Literacy from my seniors, I think that it would be a very tough and challenging subject in semester 4 that I have to face by hook or by crook. It is true. When I was given a task titled “convicted killer back at work”, I thought that it is quite simple as the article is easy to understand. But when I look at the ten elements that I must go through to complete the task, I’m scared because I don’t fully understand about the ten elements. I’m afraid that if I cannot complete the task then I’m not good enough compared to all my friends and I would be a laughing stock in class. To raise my spirit, I keep saying to myself that if everyone can do it, so do I. With what little courage left, I managed to complete the task.

Critical Literacy is a new subject to me and it requires us to think from many angles. The content and the way of approaching a text is difficult as it wants us to think critically based on a text or article given. In unit 1, the main thing that I have learned are about ten elements consist of topic, content, source, audience, the rhetorical function, purpose, perspective, positioning, impact and the last one is visual literacy. I found it difficult to elaborate on the rhetorical function, purpose, perspective and positioning. As for the rhetorical function and purpose, I was a bit confused because the information needed for both of it are a bit similar and I have doubt on what to write on its content. Due to that, I just write the same content but using different approach and sentence structure. For the perspective and positioning, I have difficulties in understanding and what it is needed from both words. I need to refer to the book and ask my friends every time when I’m doing the task given. Reading 1.2, chapter 1 “stories and facts”, Martin J R (1987) explores the relationship between the function and form of different types of writing. The chapter focuses on forms of factual writing like recount, procedure writing, descriptions, report writing, genre, explanations, nature or nurture and exposition. Meanwhile, in reading 1.3, chapter 2, I learned about rules and regulations. In this chapter, Fowler and Kress show how they can control and manipulate readers in their beliefs and actions. There are some ideas and terms in this chapter such as to manage our own behavior, rules, declarative, imperative, circumlocution and passive declarative.

In reading 1.1, we have discussed on a nurse, who had an innocent face that is convicted for murdering her Australian colleague, Gilford. I don’t know where the people got the idea that Deborah Parry, 40, who was employed at Holy Cross Hospital at Haslemere, Surrey, 16 years ago, was convicted of an awful murder. For me, if Parry wants to kill Gilford, she didn’t have to wait for 16 years. She can kill Gilford after she was employed there anytime. But she didn’t do that. But after 16 years working there, then she killed her colleague? What nonsense. I believed that after 16 years of friendship, the bond between them should be stronger and she would be unwilling to kill her colleague. Besides, there was no solid evidence found that show she is guilty. She said that she plead guilty after being tortured and was force to sign a confession. According to her, she was not on the wrong side of the law. I feel pity for her. It is a sickly thing when you are being accused of doing something that you didn’t do especially convicted of an awful murder. It is embarrassing and it tarnished her good name. May God help her.

I think I have to stop here since I have given my point of view through my critical thinking. Hope it can satisfy my lecturer, Mdm. Imasuzianna and have a debate over tea sometime. A thousand thanks to you for teaching and discussion on the ten elements that was so exciting in Critical Literacy. Thank you again Mdm. Hope u enjoy reading my comments and responses. Bye..=D