THE END OF SEMESTER-CRITICAL LITERACY-FINAL SHOWDOWN

Assalamualaikum. Currently in week 12. I don’t know how to respond on this. But wait, 3 weeks to go before final exam. This will mark the end of my journey in the land of brain squeezing critical thinking. Critical literacy have taught me a lot of skills that I need to improve my critical thinking and reasoning skills. After 12 weeks of learning Critical Literacy, my narrow minded have expanded to be clear minded.

It was quite hard for me at the beginning to really understand what and how critical thinking applies in our daily lives. I also have a hard time learn the analyzing skills towards critical thinking particularly the rule of ten. It is a fundamental rule in critical literacy subject which comprises of topic, content, source, audience, rhetorical function, purpose, perspective, positioning, impact and visual literacy. From topic until audience it was not much of a problem to complete it. But from rhetorical up to visual literacy, that’s where the part that I really need to apply all the skills that I have learned and squeeze the might of my brain to complete the rule of ten and the review of the academic texts that have been given. At this point is where I have a thought to give up on reviewing the academic articles. Our small scope of knowledge and our premature skills of critical thinking makes us to struggling to evaluate the possible content of the context. However through guidance, lesson and continuous practices from our lecturer Madam Zariati, I somehow managed to get it done in satisfaction. The perspective part of the rule of ten is the most challenging yet the part that I love the most. This is because this is the part where I can apply my critical thinking skills and address my own perspective whether to say “yes” or “no” to the stance of the particular academic texts.

Procrastination is my biggest enemy where it hinder my progress and my full potential.In assignment 1 i do my work in the last week and because of that i only manage to do my best on the article of Brexit and Ransom. I have to rush in the writing of the president articles because i have to go back to my hometown, perak due to the death of my relatives. If i do the assignment 2 to 3 weeks earlier, time wouldn't be much of an issue. Time management is important if we want to survive on this subject.

Honestly, I love this subject as this subject act as a platform for me to express my critical opinion through writing and exercise given by Madam Zariati. The module for this subject is very good. Madam Zariati successfully compiled the best information and exercise into one simple module. I only have one suggestion that can make learning CL to be fun.

1. The module must have page number on every page so that it is much easier for the student to go through every pages without the hassle of finding the pages.