a sophisticated syamimi ;p

I found that this subject is a little bit interesting and motivated. At first, I don’t really like this subject because it wanted me to read a lot and think critically. But after I done a lot of exercises, it has improve my reading habit and skills. It taught me on how to think critically towards each issue. With help from lecturer and friends, I can improve on how to do my assignment and finally I manage to come out with a long paragraph on the perspective and positioning which is the toughest part in those ten elements. Now, I already submitted the final assignment and waiting for my result which I am not sure that I will satisfied or not.hehe..

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Invasion of baby snatcher is talked about the kidnapping and murder towards children that happened in western country. This topic has been discussed in class with lecturer and exercise on the ten elements has been done and discussed the answer in class. This article found not really hard to understand because it was regarding the kidnapping on children which is also happened in own country.

The second last topic is a discussion about dieting: a waist is a terrible thing to mind. This topic is about the bad effect on dieting program which can cause disease like bulimia and anorexia nervosa. These happened because wrong style of dieting among people which are focusing on becoming thin but not health. This task has been discussed in group when each members of each group have to read and give a point to be present in front. This style found very interesting and easy to understand.

The last topic for critical literacy this semester is an article about dilemma of a President of South Africa, which he had to choose either one which is the most important to his country. Either drug to cure the HIV or guns that are unnecessary yet to his country. To complete this task, an exercise on the ten elements has been done in groups and presented to class on the comment from other groups. This is a practice on how to make the final assignment.

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Reading 5.3 discuss about types of exposition: persuading that and persuading to while reading 5.4 discuss about metaphor. In reading 5.3, the presenter explained about the analytical and hortatory exposition, hortatory exposition, reasoning in exposition, personality in exposition, and exposition in metaphor. Exposition is a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic, analytical is to explain why things are as they are and hortatory is giving strong encouragement to explain why they should change the thing. Hortatory exposition is commonly found in editorial, letters to the editor, sermons, political speeches & debates, and office memo. Reasoning in exposition is the process of thinking about something and making a judgment and decision. There are four ways to know about reasoning which are verbs, conjunction, preposition and noun fatalities. Personality in exposition is the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual.

Based on the presentation in reading 5.4, metaphor, is a process that was marginal to the everyday use of language, as a phenomenon that was confined to special domains such as that of the literary language. Language acts as a vehicle for transferring meanings from the mind of the speakers to audience. View of language and communication also known as ‘container view’. Metaphor is “nuke speaks.” It is the specific examples of the ideological potential. Besides, Nuke speaks is the language of pro- nuclear arms rhetoric which make people believe that the nuclear weapons are harmless and sensible. Based on the presenter, this topic is related to critical literacy is Readers have to be aware with the ideological that the writer state in any text, do not trust all the words given in the text because not all are true and to persuade the readers by using harsh or soft words.

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