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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In the end.....

Choii… it is already the time… finish having the breaks, now I have to get ready for the role play. This whole week my friends and I just go for rehearsal from morning until late night. We having our rehearsal in class and done all the works there. Set up the props, customs and edit the script too.

Come back from the breaks all of us have lots of idea in order to make the role play more interesting. Me as the director accept all the idea and make the story longer because the duration time is 20 – 40 minutes for each group.

Due to that most of the group members don’t get enough rest and makes our body felt very tired and sometimes even don’t have enough time to eat. After this final task finish, I think that all of us manage to get enough rest and having great breaks.

That night, my group is the first team to present our role play. We felt very nervous, but Miss Syidah had calm us and found that we manage to do the best. We promise to do all out just for Miss Syidah attention.

There are lots of audiences that night and we felt very shamed to act. This is the first time we present in front of lots of students. But, we found that it is interesting to do this again. Miss Syidah is very satisfied with our presentation and said that our group had done a good job. She enjoyed our role play very much and will miss our role very much.

So, that’s all for this semester and hope to see you all in the next page. After this, we have to face with our final examination, hope that we manage to answer the entire question without any worries. ~ see you soon and have a nice day…