REFLECTION TOPIC 6

From unit 6 we have discussed on the article ‘Invasion of the Baby Snatchers’ written by Kim Walter (2002, August 26) from Time Magazine on page 40. The thing that attracted me through this article is the sub headline itself which is question about the ‘lost’ children. Here, I could describe that the lost children is those who are abandoned by their parents. Those children according to what the writer said that there are the kids who cannot disappear because they are already lost. The media exposed a lot for the missing child but they are also abundant the children who are left by parents, dumped onto social services or left in care of irresponsible adults and their story sometimes only been known by their neighbours or the societies or people just not care about them at all.

I did not find too many difficulties in this topic because it has been discussed in the class members and also the lecturer. Somehow, I am not quite agree with the writer that he only put the picture of the missing child but not focus on the issued that he himself questioned it up which is about the ‘lost’ children. Other than that, in the content of the article also the writer state that people or media should be alert or take attention the kidnap cases. However, at the end of the article, the writer looks like want to focus more the abundant child.

Overall of the article is telling about the missing children and if they are unlucky it could be the victim of murder cases. I would like to strongly agree with the writer that he suggest the public or even the media itself do expose the story or news about the abundant child that might be until now did not get the justice according to their destiny of life in the future. In my view towards this, it must be have some difficulties to help those children because nowadays people are being selfish and care only their priorities.

REFLECTION TOPIC 5

In unit 5 the subtopic that I interested most is reading 5.3 which is explain about types of exposition. There are two types of exposition discussed in this part which ‘persuading that’ and ‘persuading to’. From this, I could see the different between them both when the writer clearly explained that the two types of persuading has been categorize into hortatory and analytical exposition and it included with examples. The most subtopic that attracted me is the Personality in Exposition. The writer has been discussed that in conversation or dialogue our feelings and attitudes could be seen just look at the structure of the sentence or words used in the sentence. One another elements could be seen is the expressions of our words such as Yuk and Pah that has been stated in the reading on page 23.

Besides, whenever we have to discuss the metaphor part, I could not clearly understand. In this chapter, the writer discussed on the function of the metaphor in making sentences and to recognized the words used to another similar meaning. It is quite hard to identify what are the similar and suitable words to be replacing.

Next, regarding to reading of ‘Out of Puff’ that talk about an approach to stop smoking. This article is a good approach in order to advise the readers to stop smoking and also avoid from being a smoker. The article explains a lot about the advantages of smoking such as disease that could be infected by smoker and unconsciously the people around them could be infected too. Other than that, the writer also provides some way that could be followed for the smoker slowly to stop their smoking habit in the kicking butt box. There are also having stated the organization in way to help them by giving nicotine replacement therapy, medication, and the support. The most important thing that the writer do is he storied about other people experienced like Lisa and Caroline so that readers could take it as a lesson.