Topic 1

Assalamualaikum and welcome to my new blog entry for this 2009 year. As usual I am doing this for Madam Yaya’s attention. New lecturer, new subject (COM 4623 Critical Literacy) and of course new topic. I still have to create blogs in this semester 4 whereby I really hope that I will not face any difficulties in posting the blog. First thing first, before I proceed with other interesting topic, I want to tell a little bit about the new subject, Critical Literacy (a.k.a CL). Most of my seniors said that this is one of the killer subjects in semester 4 other than Society, State & Individual (SSI), and Research & Project (R&P). So, let’s take a look about this subject. It is about reading and writing where we have to ‘critical’ understood the purposes of the text. We cannot just simply justify about certain thing that we had read. Not that easy to do so because we must have the skills to identify about the texts.
After all, my class already moved to reading 1.3. In reading 1.2 it is about Stories & Facts which is it related with the article Convicted killer back at work. Lots of thing that I do not know on how to relate the text with the 10 elements. Before this I had read Chapter 1 a little bit, but still could not understand. Then, only I knew about it because with good explanation by the presenter which consist of Adini’s group members. This group had make the whole class understand and clear about Chapter 1. With a good example they make it more clear and understand well.
The explanation about Rules and Regulations for reading 1.3 had been made byn Nabila’s group. Here, not only I myself could not understand about the reading, but it is the same for Nabila’s group members. They afraid that their explanations are wrong, but they had tried their best because of Madam Yaya’s support. Although they do not include all the subtopics in the reading, but they had already combined it with one good explanation. Madam Yaya had a few questioned for them that related to the article in Chapter 1. I thought for this chapter I get all the explanation and for Chapter 2, reading 2.2 my group and I will present about it. Hope that my group can make it.

CRITICAL LITERACY