Reflection Unit 1

In this blog, I was assigned to do a reflection on unit 1;Who Produce This Text ,For Whom and Why? Critical Literacy is mainly about how the author of an article trying to elaborate the article to the audience. To be a critical literacy student, we must be critical in every single element in focus skill. This blog is going to discuss about the focus skill, practice text and my opinion towards this topic.

The focus skill that are needed in order to do critical reading are; topic, content source, audience, rhetorical function, purpose, perspective, positioning impact and visual literacy. These ten elements contribute to do the critical reading. In reading 1.2, Martin (1987)’stories and facts’, he mentions the purposes affect the author choices are relevant to facts in general. Meanwhile in 1.3,’Rules and regulations’, Fowler focus on how an article can actually manipulate readers.

The practice text for this unit is ‘Convicted Killer’. The practice text is the text which I have to state the ten elements to be criticize on. ‘Convicted Killer’ is an article about a nurse, Deborah Parry who was accused to murder her colleague, Yvone Gilford. She had been set free after doing some payment about $ 1.7 million to the victim’s brother and was allowed to continue her nursing job in an English hospital. The author of this article was trying to convince to the readers that Parry was guilty, based on the author statement of quotations from some related people in the case.

In doing the critical reading, there have been several difficulties about the ten elements. One of it is that, I’m not quite sure about the positioning and perspective of ‘Convicted killer’. However after some consultation with the lecturer, I was managed to complete the critical reading including positioning and perspectives.