Blog Entry 1

Critical literacy is subject that’s taught for semester four students in MPCIM, the subject objective is to give new insight for student in the way of reading a text or an article in critical point of views. Not believing in everything you had just read is crucial in this subject as students looked a text as a product; produced be someone (writer), meant for someone (audience) and the reason for text (purposes). There are ten areas which students can used to analyze an article in critical literacy; topic, content, source, audience, rhetorical function, purpose, perspective, positioning, impact, visual literacy.

The most interested part in my study is the first writing practice, which I’d examined an article based on ten areas of critical literacy. The article is based on a true story of a British nurse who was convicted of murder in Saudi Arabia and returning to work again as a nurse after the payment of large amount of money to the victim’s family. It interesting enough because I had encountered many difficulties at the beginning and it also taught me valuable lesson on how to look at an article in the way which I had never realized it before.

Chapter 1 - Stories and facts

The chapter which I done a presentation with several of my colleagues, it’s mainly about the relationship between the function and form of different genres in writing and also illustrated on how the reader understand the purpose in a type of writing intended by the writer, and also explaining how the reader generally judge the value or quality of writing on the basis it’s aligned well on the rules to the genres. This chapter mainly focuses on the forms of factual writing such as recount, procedure, description and report. The point stated in the chapter which I found it very fascinating is the difference style of writing between genders, female tends to write in perspective of nurture of things or tend to tell stories more and male prefer to write of the nature of things around them in a report-like manner.

Chapter 2 - Rules and Regulations

The second chapter for critical literacy which I had learned that texts with common and benign (subtle) words can serve regulatory function can control and manipulate the reader’s belief and action. Usually, the readers will be not aware for such texts if it being constructed or intended on that way, and the awareness of reader can lead to resistance to the controlling influences. As I go through to the chapter, there four types rules and regulations which I can outlined; declarative, imperative, circumlocution and passive declarative.