In this unit,it has introduced me a critical way of approaching any text. I had read an article titled “Convicted Killer”.
There, I need to understand the article and answer the questions in the Portfolio Task 1.The article focuses on a convicted killer, Deborah Parry, who was back to work as a nurse at Holy Cross Hospital in London. The article covers about Deborah Parry, as now allowed to be a nurse again. She,who was involved in murdering her own colleague Australian, Yvonne Gilford in Saudi Arabia had been given the all clear to carry on her job in an English hospital. Parry and fellow nurse, Lucille McLauchlan, 32, from Dundee were freed in an act of mercy by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia after being held for the murder of Gilford in December 1996. While, the victim’s family,Gilford ‘s brother ask for the payment though to be about 1.7 million for Yvonne Gilford’s murdering. However,George Galloway called for the Health Minister to ban Parry from working in British hospitals.He is also said someone who has been convicted in murdering certainly should not be let loose in the hospital ward again. The article comes from a daily newspaper, wrote by Lucie Morris in London. It is written for non-specialist audience. It is designed to inform and warn the readers about the reinstatement Deborah Parry as a nurse in England and a convicted killer is now allowed to work back. The stance taken in the article is the writer condemns the decision to reinstate Parry as a nurse with a criminal record. The readers are likely to be aware and careful with the Deborah’s case because it is dangerous to people to work with a convicted killer.The visual aspects are significant to the readers to predict what the article is about with look at the headline and the picture of Deborah Parry. There, we can saw that Deborah Parry looks nice in tidy uniform and looks innocent.
In Background Reading, in Reading 1.2, it is tell about the relationship between the function and form of different types of writing. It is focuses on factual writing like;
1. recount- a type of story which people communicate.
2. procedure writing- contains instruction
3. description- describes features of people, event, phenomena
4. report writing- in general terms,not explain
5. genre- describe type of text
6. explanation- focus on judgement
7. exposition- explanation which includes an argument
In Reading 1.3, it shows how texts can control and manipulate readers in their beliefs and actions. It is focuses on how the ways language is organized can tell us about the relationship between the speakers and audiences:
1. social circumstances of speaker and listener are indicated from the way we speak.
2. language manages our own behavior.
3. writer- commander, readers- commanded
4. declarative- asserts something as a fact
5. imperative- sentence is in the form of a command
6. circumlocution- roundabout, indirect or evasive language
7. passive declarative- ‘must obey the order’, less direct
There, I need to understand the article and answer the questions in the Portfolio Task 1.The article focuses on a convicted killer, Deborah Parry, who was back to work as a nurse at Holy Cross Hospital in London. The article covers about Deborah Parry, as now allowed to be a nurse again. She,who was involved in murdering her own colleague Australian, Yvonne Gilford in Saudi Arabia had been given the all clear to carry on her job in an English hospital. Parry and fellow nurse, Lucille McLauchlan, 32, from Dundee were freed in an act of mercy by King Fahd of Saudi Arabia after being held for the murder of Gilford in December 1996. While, the victim’s family,Gilford ‘s brother ask for the payment though to be about 1.7 million for Yvonne Gilford’s murdering. However,George Galloway called for the Health Minister to ban Parry from working in British hospitals.He is also said someone who has been convicted in murdering certainly should not be let loose in the hospital ward again. The article comes from a daily newspaper, wrote by Lucie Morris in London. It is written for non-specialist audience. It is designed to inform and warn the readers about the reinstatement Deborah Parry as a nurse in England and a convicted killer is now allowed to work back. The stance taken in the article is the writer condemns the decision to reinstate Parry as a nurse with a criminal record. The readers are likely to be aware and careful with the Deborah’s case because it is dangerous to people to work with a convicted killer.The visual aspects are significant to the readers to predict what the article is about with look at the headline and the picture of Deborah Parry. There, we can saw that Deborah Parry looks nice in tidy uniform and looks innocent.
In Background Reading, in Reading 1.2, it is tell about the relationship between the function and form of different types of writing. It is focuses on factual writing like;
1. recount- a type of story which people communicate.
2. procedure writing- contains instruction
3. description- describes features of people, event, phenomena
4. report writing- in general terms,not explain
5. genre- describe type of text
6. explanation- focus on judgement
7. exposition- explanation which includes an argument
In Reading 1.3, it shows how texts can control and manipulate readers in their beliefs and actions. It is focuses on how the ways language is organized can tell us about the relationship between the speakers and audiences:
1. social circumstances of speaker and listener are indicated from the way we speak.
2. language manages our own behavior.
3. writer- commander, readers- commanded
4. declarative- asserts something as a fact
5. imperative- sentence is in the form of a command
6. circumlocution- roundabout, indirect or evasive language
7. passive declarative- ‘must obey the order’, less direct
-CL always in mind-
TQ =)
