Based on my understanding in this Critical Literacy subject, introduction becomes one of the ways of approaching and understands a text critically. At this stage, it is more focusing on the text itself, where something that was been produced by someone (the writer), for someone else (the reader) and mainly published for a particular purpose or reason. The most important thing is that it enabling us to understand the whole text or writing and capable to distinguish that it has been produced and published in a particular context because of has been motivated by a particular needs. Overall, the key questions that mainly been used and asked at this stage is to know who wrote the text (the producer), who is the intended reader (the consumer) and also why was it been produced. Besides that, there are ten elements that can be used in helping understand more the text, especially at this introductory stage. The first one is the topic, which this element gives you the first view or impression about what generally the text all about and giving its main focus by look at the picture and the headline of the text. For example, in reading 1.1, “Convicted killer back at work” (1998, 22 September), the writer put a picture of a woman that wearing a uniform and a headline, so that the reader can guess who and what will the article is about. The second one is the content where at this element you have to go through the whole article by using the “W” questions like what, who, where and when. This should be a brief summary and precise understanding of the main points to the reader without having to read the whole article. The third element is the source which is the details where usually the text is been located and published whether in daily newspaper, internet or so on. The fourth element is the audience where the question likes “who is the article written for” usually been used and asked. It means that who is the target reader for the text. The fifth elements is the rhetorical function, the identifying of what the writer of the article is trying to do with the text whether to inform, advise, warning, entertain and so on to their reader. The sixth element is the purpose of the text by saying what will be the effect from the article towards certain groups or individuals. For example, the purpose of the article “Convicted killer back at work” is to warn the reader that Deborah Perry, a convicted killer, is now allowed to work as a nurse in England. The seventh element is the perspective. This part is to know what is the writer’s perspective and what features of the text tell us like the writer condemns the decision to allow Deborah Perry back at her work as a nurse. The eighth element is the positioning where it discusses about how the writer views the characters and views the intended audience again with some evidence and also examples from the text. Next, the element is the impact on the effectiveness of the writer in achieving the purpose in giving reasons for their views. It means that, whether the reader understand and can feel what are the writer is going to achieve from his/her text like in reading 1.1, the writer wants the reader agree with him/her that Deborah Perry is really guilty and should not been allowed back at work. The last element will be the visual literacy which refers to the usage of some images, headlines and so on that creates the visual effect in the text.
2. What can you understand from the presentation.
READING 1.2 – STORIES AND FACTS
Based on my understanding from the text and also from the presentation, this reading is talking and explores about the relationship between the function and form of different types of writing. It focuses on forms of factual writing like description, recount, procedure and report in writing for and by children in order to illustrate the link between form and purposes. Other than that, the reading is also explains about the way that we as a reader judge the value or the quality of a piece of written material and decide whether it follows to the right rules or formats of the genre selected. My comments towards the presentation are the group that presents this reading already done a good job on explaining the reading to me. Nevertheless, there are some of the ten elements in critical literacy not being included during the presentation like who the audience for this type of reading and the writer’s positioning in this text.
READING 1.3 – RULES AND REGULATION
Based on my understanding from the text and also from the presentation, this reading is talking and explores about how the rules and regulations can control and manipulate readers in their beliefs and actions. It means that how the writer put or states their rules in the text to influence and attract their readers to read their reading. Furthermore; it is also talking about how the ways language is organized can tell us about the relationship between the writer and the intended audience (the reader). My comments towards the presentation that presented by this group is that they really do a very good job in explaining the text and they also explained the text by using all the ten elements in critical literacy. Although they present it without one of their member, but they still manage to present and do their presentation to the whole class with a good explanatory. So, keep the good effort in the future and next presentation.
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