In unit 3, we are being stressed and focused on positioning. We learned about the idea of positioning in critical literacy. Positioning is the way the writer construct the participants in the text and also the readers.
Since I have been exposed on how to answer the questions in the portfolio task, I found that approaching the text using the skills in the portfolio task is actually an interesting thing to do. In this unit, the practice text and the portfolio task are on two different texts. The practice text in this unit is ‘Please let me go to your school’ and the portfolio task is ‘Truth about youth’.
The information that I found interesting in the text ‘Please let me go to your school’ is the way the writer construct the readers using the photograph and the caption. The photograph of an innocent little girl named Scarlett is shown and the caption is a quotation from Scarlett herself. The readers are positioned as people who will be in Scarlett’s side and sympathized with her.
As for the text ‘The truth about youth’, we did the same portfolio task but there is some additional information that I think I have gained. When we were doing the visual literacy, other than the title and image, we also need to see and guess the implicit meaning of some words. For example, the word ‘Bheard’ and the image of a boy screaming. At first, I have no idea what that word means. Then our lecturer told that it actually means ‘be heard’. The writer is writing the article to make the readers think, understand and also help the youths who have problems, meaning to listen what is in their hearts.
I think that all the areas in this topic have been covered and touched thoroughly and I guess I do not find anything that is problematic to me.
Since I have been exposed on how to answer the questions in the portfolio task, I found that approaching the text using the skills in the portfolio task is actually an interesting thing to do. In this unit, the practice text and the portfolio task are on two different texts. The practice text in this unit is ‘Please let me go to your school’ and the portfolio task is ‘Truth about youth’.
The information that I found interesting in the text ‘Please let me go to your school’ is the way the writer construct the readers using the photograph and the caption. The photograph of an innocent little girl named Scarlett is shown and the caption is a quotation from Scarlett herself. The readers are positioned as people who will be in Scarlett’s side and sympathized with her.
As for the text ‘The truth about youth’, we did the same portfolio task but there is some additional information that I think I have gained. When we were doing the visual literacy, other than the title and image, we also need to see and guess the implicit meaning of some words. For example, the word ‘Bheard’ and the image of a boy screaming. At first, I have no idea what that word means. Then our lecturer told that it actually means ‘be heard’. The writer is writing the article to make the readers think, understand and also help the youths who have problems, meaning to listen what is in their hearts.
I think that all the areas in this topic have been covered and touched thoroughly and I guess I do not find anything that is problematic to me.
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