Homework.!

Topic
The article focuses on invasion of the body snatchers where child abductions seem rampant. But what about the other “lost” children? The writer tell us about what actually had happened to the lost children because they do not just had been lost, but some other how had been killed too.

Content
The article covers about the missing children that they all are an innocent children that just play around their house and suddenly had been kidnapped by the snatchers. The media is just sarcastic where he only point on the missing children, but neglected about on how to prevent this issue.

Source
The article comes from the TIME newspaper in the view point column, dated August 26, 2002, page 40 and the writer is Walter Kim.

Audience
The article is written for media people in order for them to know what actually had happened in the crime world nowadays.

The rhetorical function
The article designed to alert all the media people so that they will take a quick action.

Purpose
The article aims to tell that there are lots of children missing out there, but there are still no solutions to prevent this issue. It focuses more to the media people because only they can help to solve the problem.

Perspective
The stance taken in the article is the writer tell us about why is it the children easily get kidnapped. This issue had already happened for a long time ago, but still no solution in order to solve this crime.

Positioning
The article describes about many years that all the children had been missing, but until now they cannot be found. Some of them had already lied and some of them who are survive, but in the bad emotion.

Impact
The effect on readers likely to be on the media people will open their eyes because this is such a serious issue that cannot be neglected.

Visual literacy
The visual aspects of the text are significant because this article had been published in the view point column whereby it has in large font size of title that will attract the audience. Not only that there are picture of two girls shows about missing children and at the bottom there is a caption describes about the picture make people concern more about this issue.

Topic 6

In this reading 5.3 we had learned about Types of Exposition: ‘persuading that’ and ‘persuading to’. There are four types of it which are analytical, hortatory, reasoning and also personality exposition. For analytical usually it is a thesis where something we persuade that or to explain why things are as they are. While hortatory is to explain why they should change or in other word to persuade to. We can found this in political speeches and debate. Reasoning in exposition is same like hortatory that are about why, but reasoning in speech and in writing is very different.
I only understand about what Maryam had explained in the class, but for Fandi and Hafiz presentation I am a little bit confusing. Maryam explained about metaphor in ‘nuke speak’ – the language of nuclear weapons or ‘nuke speak’. There are wide variety of metaphors, different levels and many different perspectives. The metaphor is a ‘nuclear weapons are part of nation’s industrial output’, whereby it is clearly crucial to the way in which we talk about and construct our world. Not only has that metaphor drawn on our knowledge of the physical world of concrete objects and spatial relationships in order to structure a great variety of experiential domains.