Reflection (UNIT 5: AUDIENCE AND IMPACT)
In this unit, I have found so many interesting formations. This unit focuses on how we o about establishing who the audience is, and calculating the likely effect a text will have. It is also interesting on how to predict the impact on the audience itself because different people will give different perceptions. This is because texts often circulate throughout society in unexpected ways. For example, it is not easy to predict who will be the readers of the magazine that you pick up and read in the doctor’s waiting room, or junk mail delivered to your post box. Likewise, we should be continuous about judging the impact of texts as readers will vary considerably they bring to understanding and responding to texts.
The concept and the terminology in this topic are easy to understand. Hence, I do not have any problems in order to complete my portfolio regarding to this topic. However, there is certain thing that I found quite difficult to understand. I found that it is difficult to predict what people will judge and think about the article. It is also difficult to predict who will be the readers to the article.
In this chapter, I had learned the article “Are Gay Relationships Different?” This article is about the gay relationships between the writer and his partner. From this article, I found that it is hard to predict who the target reader. From this article, our lecturer trained us how to predict the target reader and the impact for the specialist and the non-specialist audience after they read the article.
GROUP COMMENT
The presentation for this unit had been done by Farah Aida, Nadia, and Syahida Syuhana. They had come with very creative idea on how to attract us. Syahida Syuhana had shown us the pictures from the reader digests and wants us to predict what the article will talk about. After the presentation, I can understand how to predict who the target reader is and know that the picture can bring the significant effect to the reader.
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