For critical literacy subject, in topic one it’s contain reading 1.1 “convicted killer”, reading 1.2 Martin (1987) “stories and fact” and reading 1.3 Fowler and Kress (1979) “rules and regulations”. Based on unit 1 readings, the information about stories and fact is interesting. It is learn how to make writing in details. The writer gives brief and clear information in this topic. It is easy to understand with simple words and many of examples.
In unit reading 1 also have difficult topic to understand. Reading 1.3 about rules and regulation hard to understand because the writer gives a long explanation and some words also hard to understand. For examples, swimming club rules. It is contains such as declaratives, imperative, circumlocution and passive decorative. The readers take a long time to finish their reading and to understand all about the rules.
For the article “convicted killer back at work”, I cannot fully understand for the first time I read. But when I read rather than once and also doing for portfolio task, I can understand about the article and I get some information about this topic. Maybe for first time I read, I just skimming and find the main idea. But for the second time, I read more specific to do the portfolio and I must to get the details information such as topic, content, source, audience, rhetorical function, purpose, perspective, positioning, impact and visual literacy. After I read the article and do the portfolio, I learn something that I must read more details to get information and it can make me fully understand.
For the first presentation group, even the points that they give it is not have a lot of explanation but I still got the point that they try to give us. Beside that, they use a simple word and easy for me to understand.
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