my critical romance

Reflection (UNIT 3: POSITIONING)

In this unit, I had learned how does the writer construct the participants in the text and how is the reader constructed. The lecturer also teaches us on how to develop the way to understand the ability to identifying the element of positioning.

There are some terminology that I found it is very hard to understand for example how to construct the reader in the article. There is also some difficult terminology in the article “Briefing” for example itinerant, compensation, and stolen generation.

In this chapter, we had learned “Briefing”. In this article, we learned on how to identify the way writer constructs the reader. I found this article is quite easy to understand because the writer uses simple words in writing the article. I also found that it is quite difficult in order to identify the positioning and perspective because in perspective we have to find what stance is taken in the text and for positioning; we have to find how the writer constructs the participants in the text. Overall, I found it is quite easy to define the topic, content, source, audience, rhetorical function, purpose, perspective, positioning, impact, and the visual literacy although there are some parts that are quite confusing to me.

GROUP COMMENT

This week, Thuraya, Yusafiza, and Qursya have to present about this chapter. After listening to their presentation, I found that positioning are the most important in order to attract the reader. The positioning follows logically from the writer perspective. If we construct the reader, the reader will easily have an effect when read the article. They had performed the good presentation.