Introduction, Reading 1.2&1.3

Unit 1 in this subject is an introduction of Critical literacy. Before I learned about the introduction, I should know the meaning of critical literacy. Based on my understanding, critical literacy is to describing a particular approach to reading and writing. We should think critically about the text. Then we learned about the introduction, there are some elements in critical literacy. That is produced by someone, for some else and for a particular purpose.
In this chapter, there is 1 article. The title is ‘Convicted Killer back at work’. We should answer the 10 elements in this article. That is topic, content, source, audience, the rhetorical function, purpose, perspective, positioning, impact and visual literacy. I learned how to criticize the text. The article is really easy to understand. What the story is all about and the structure of the article. It is a very interesting article. Beside that, in unit 1 I found something that can attract me to read the text.
From reading 1.2, stories and facts written by Martin J R (1987), there is some interesting value that can define in this article. The presentation was made by Atiqah, Zila and Shyreen. From the text, I can know the meaning by an understanding the text and try to think critically about the text. The word that the writers used is quite confusing for me to understand the article what is all about. Because of many examples in this article, I will know what it means by those entire things. Hence, the writers trying to used the simple words. Other than that, in this text written by Martin, he tries to explore the relationship between the function and form of different types of writing. In my point of view, this chapter focuses on forms of factual writing like description, recount, procedure and report in writing in order to illustrate the link between form and purpose.
From reading 1.3, Rules and Regulation written by Fowler, Roger and Kress, Gunther (1979), I found that the article was quite confusing when I made a speed reading through the text. But after the presentation made by Izamuddin and Fazrul and read it again, I can understand the chapter more clearly than before. In the article, the writers explain how the ways language is organized and also tells us about the relationship between the writer and the intended audience. The writer also explains more deeply about rules and regulation uses in writing.