Saturday, January 31, 2009

Journal 2

Based on my understanding from the Reading 2.2 which is ‘Language, Perspective & Ideology’, I can say that the language that we used to describe something will affect the readers where they will make their own perspective towards that statement. I t means perspective is mediated through textual structures and textual processes and those who control the production of text control is the operation of ideology. Language is a human speech, perspective can be described as someone’s thoughts and ideology is a set of beliefs and principles. So, I conclude that everyone have different perspective and ideology based on one’s understanding on language development in any statement that had been written.


In the topic of ‘Text and Textualities’, I can explain that text is a combination of signs that have various meaning for different group of people. What is sign? Signs can be described as a result of its contrast to other meaning. Texts are socially constructed to have certain meaning where it combines both pictures and carries many meaning. It also influences understanding of the reading on the text. As a conclusion, I can say that, readers can choose to believe or not to believe of what they have read.

Friday, January 23, 2009

Critical Lliteracy - Unit 1

The first thing that I’ve learnt from ‘Critical Literacy’ subject is about the way of approaching a text critically. In this subject, I need to be able ‘frame’ a text. There are 10 elements all together. First and foremost, I have to analyze the topic by look at the picture and headline then I just read whatever that spring in my mind. Other elements like content, source, audience and visual literacy are quite easy as I simply can do it. I also have to identify and understand about rhetorical function, purpose, perspective, positioning and impact. These 5 elements are quite difficult because I should have the ability of thinking, analyzing, understanding and applying the information that I’ve read. In the way to complete the task that had been given by my lecturer, I read the notes more than 3 times. But then, I still confuse with some of the elements. Actually, I never used the some of the elements before. I’m glad to learn something new at least I got some knowledge from it. So perhaps, I will cope with these 10 elements.

In the reading 1.1 I’ve learnt about ‘Stories and Facts’ which contains recounts, report writing and factual writing. Based on my understanding, stories are about the briefing of any events that happened and it will be edit by other parties to be a story. Fact is something that is true, accurate and clear. It cannot be edited or created by other parties. From this reading part, it also gives an explanation about the procedure of writing, creativity and imagination in factual writing and developing report writing. I can understand this chapter, it just there is a few points that I can’t really cope with it. But I think it is good for me as I am taking Diploma in English Communication to learn about it.

Do you know what is ‘Rules and Regulations’? Actually these words are familiar with us as we can see the words everywhere such as university, bank, shopping complex and more. Rules and regulations are needed in our daily life as it will guide us and control our behavior to be disciplined and obeyed community. So that we will live in peace and harmony if people just follow the rules and regulations. Rules actually can be created by any small parties while regulations are made by high authority. Actually, my group is covered this topic during the presentation and we are do not fully understand with this topic. But, we have given our best on that presentation even it seemed like we are not prepared. So as a conclusion, rules and regulations are really important to manage people behavior.