Monday, February 16, 2009

Topic 5

The article is argued about body language that people had done to attract the muggers. There is evidence that shows why is it muggers tend to do so. It is because there are 26 movements that form basic components. Researchers had done a survey and it already had been proved. I am really agree with this article because we ourselves who is really attract the muggers and not because the muggers who is attract with us.
What can I understand about evidence is evidence sometimes can be trust, but sometimes cannot be trust. It is because people nowadays are very cleaver and there is no such thing that they can create the evidence. Other than that mostly they prefer testimonial evidence rather than circumstantial evidence. For example, eyewitnesses, who testify that they themselves have seen the accused commit the crime. The most famous country that had lots of murderer is Chicago.
Statistic can be defined as the art and science of statistic. Researchers always sticked with statistic although it always been misused. There are lots of common statistical slips and it has to show the statistic clearly in order to show the result. For example, unqualified averages, fallacious sampling, percentages unaccompanied by actual numbers and also misleading presentation.
Crooked and fallacious thinking had lots of subtopic. The first one is transfer device which is to attract people by using ambassador. While circular argument is the first impression or stereotype. For false analogy is to evaluate something or somebody based on their expectation, whereas either – or assumption is the thinking there is no middle ground between two entrance. Equivocation is a complicated thinking which can leads to misunderstanding. For crooked thinker it can switch the words to make it difficult to understand whereby as we all know that fallacious means false.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Topic 4

The article describes about six – year – old Scarlett Finney as if she was able to go to the school she would love to do so. Her parents had bought this case for the judgment, but still they do not have enough evidence to sue the school. Here, the writer had quote what Scarlett had said about the school which is the school once had wrote in a book that they do take children with disabilities. Scarlett’s parents kept wondering why is it the school just cannot take the disabilities student even though they had lots of specialties and also facilities for all of them.
The second article is about youth suicide that had been increased nowadays. There are survey that had been conducted by Bheard. In this article stated that lots of reason why is it youngster tend to do bad things especially kept suicide. They thought that if they took action all the problems that occur will gone just like them that already committed suicide. Why it is all things happens maybe because they do not have people to talk with or to tell what exactly their problems are. Lots of things to do in order to prevent this issue from become worse.
On this reading article it tells about five elements that included in the linguistic tools which are genre, field, mode, ideology, and tenor. Each of it has its own characteristic. For text A it combined about information where the ideology is in it, mostly about discussion, advantages and disadvantages. While in the text B is about report that usually straight forward. The writer tries to proplematise the texts, dig out about ideology positioning, provide basis of informed debate, analysis and critique, providing analytical tools, enabling people and react as ‘text analysis’, and illustrate some explicit knowledge about language.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Topic 3

The writer supports the stance taken by Dr Cross that this issue is very serious if there are no actions taken. There are lots of disadvantages when children had been bullied. For example, traumatic and not only that the victim can get symptoms such as panic, anxiety and headaches. The victim felt afraid to tell about what really had happened because they can feel what will be if they tell the truth. To avoid from this thing happen is not that easy because people out there tend to do bad things although they know that there is no benefits at all whereby is just for fun.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Topic 2

Hye, there... here we meet again. Now in the second entry where I have faced another week and of course another topic. For this week it is my group's turned for presentation whereby my friends and I had already choose Reading 2.2. We had discussed about this topic before we proceed with our presentation. Although we do not really understand about this topic, but we tried our best so that all our friends can understand well about it. When the presentation was held I saw that Madam Yaya cannot accept with our presentation, but after all the example and explaination she manage to understand with it.

Second presentation has been presented by Nisa and Nyssa which is Reading 2.3. I am very satisfied with their performance because they manage to explain all about the subtopic in the Reading 2.3. With a good visual aid that they used makes not only me can understand it, but same goes to others. Although I manage to understand with their explanation, but still some of my friends said that both of their explanation cannot be understood because the language that they used is hard to understand. Overall, we still can understand with the presentation and felt very satisfied.