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Critical Reading Class' Weekly Reflection

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Week 1 <br/>Overview and Introduction the Materials

As far as I know, fact is something that real happen and it was a truth, one of the way to know the fact is by looking the text if there is a credible data  or not. The first and second passage I provided in the previous page that was taken from the article about " Dune " movie which win 6 oscar academy award. It was categorized as a fact because it was truth, there is a data about the profit this movie has earned. Moreover, the next upcoming sequel movie is in the procces of filming. For the next passage, it told about the cast of the movie "Dune", it was also a fact because all of those actors and actresses really occured in the whole of movie to potray their character. So, it was also a fact because really happen and everyone known it is a truth. Then, the example of opinion in this article could be seen in the screenshot I had taken. When the article said about someone personal argument, praise to someone, or just an apreciation utterances, it was an opinion because it doesn't mean it was truth and his perception could be different with the others.

Yesterday, I scrolled through my twitter timeline and found something unique that catched my attention to stop scrolling then clicked the tweet. There was a man who ride a vehicle, and I can see it was look like a man just stand on the running wheel. It was amazing but dangerous. So many people critism how unsafe the vehicle is. There is no safety item used by the man such as helmet. Scrolling along through the comment section, I found some people commented the man on the wheel both in positive conotation and also commented in negative conotation. However, all of them are stated to how dangerous it was and it can be the caused of his death. Netizens thought it was unsafe vehicle that shouldn't be used in the any of street in the world, but it was still amazing if it has already licenced and safe.

In the previous meeting, we discussed our work together with Mr.Sean, like always, MR. Sean had always given his feedback to our work. I got new insight about the term of fact and opinion, how to distinguish between fact and opinion, and what the characteristic of fact and opinion in some vary of text. After reviewing our work together, the class lesson moved on to the next material, it was about argument. This lesson was included premis, conclusion, and assumption. As far as I know, argument is an author personal opinion or statement stated in the text. While conclusion was the overall point of the text or the re statement that the author want to emphasiz from the main idea of the text. Premis might some quite similar to conclusion but it's basically dfferent, premis considered as the evidence of the author argument to make it credible and make sense. last, Mr.Sean gave additonal explanation relaated about the argument, that was " assumption" or the statement that is not directly stated as premis but can be inferred from the other evidence come from general knowledge of the people.

In the 4th week in Critical Reading class, like always, we discussed the previous tasks. We tried to analyze the right answer then MR.Sean gave several explanations of it. Right after that, we're encouraged to do self reflection about our own answer. Moving on to the next material, we learned about another subject, we discussed " Loaded Words". As far as I know, we have different variation to express our response toward something, the responses could be positive or negative. When our responses is more positive, it called positive conotation, it has more polite and better word used. While our responses is tend to be the opposite one, it could be named as " Negative conotations". Negative conotations is less polite, sometimes it is rude and used to insult or roasting someone. People might used both of positive and negative conotation to response about occurring phenomenon.

This is the final reflection of Critical Reading class in the first half of the 4th semester.

Malay Language is unlikely to become Asian Language because most people in ASEAN speak Bahasa Indonesia rather than Malay Language.

In the 5th meeting of Critical Reading class with Mr. Sean, like the previous class, we always did some reflections toward our work together. In this case, we were doing reflection about loaded words task, it seems like this lessons is quiet hard for me to understand. However, MR. Sean gave us the deeper explanation and analysis about this lesson. Moreover, the new material about loaded word is also added by Mr. Sean. It was about neutral word, as far as know that loaded word only contains two conotations, positive and negative, it turn out there is one more conotation, that is neutral conotation, which is more neutral and general. Moving on to the next material, we discussed about fact and opinion, the point I could catch from the lessons is about the meaning of fact and opinion, then how to distinguish between two of them, and how to choose weather a statement is fact or opinion in the real context. Fact is something that occur in the real word, real happen, accurated and it is truth. However, opinion is about personal argument, prediction, or statement from someone and opinion is not always being a truth, it could be just a simply form to say about something.

Last week was the last meeting of the Critical Reading class in the first half of this semester. We discussed more about logical fallacy and did the quiz before the class ended. It was the 8th meeting and I have learned a lot of essential materials of Critical Reading. In the first meeting, I learned about what critical reading was, then also about the difference between critical reading&nbsp;and reading, and also about the author's purpose, then Mr. Sean also gave me understanding about thick and thin questions. The next week when I joined the class, I was learning about Bias and how to identify the author's bias in the text or article, then I was doing several exercises related to this, such as&nbsp;looking for&nbsp;the real world&nbsp;example of the Bias on the internet and I think this materials very challenging for me because the deeper analysis was needed if I want to identify the author's bias, yet I still learn how to deal with my struggle. Look back in the next week, I learned about text structure, Mr. Sean encouraged me to identify the structure of the text and made an example of this. Furthermore, I learned about loaded words, a phrase or word that has a negative or positive connotation based on the context and it can be used to state the author’s bias. The next class discussed facts and opinions. I can easily understand this material because it was also taught in the first semester and I have no struggle with it. Lastly, in the final class,&nbsp;Mr. Sean taught about&nbsp;arguments and logical fallacies, arguments is an author's point of view about something, while logical fallacies is a statement that invalid and cannot be true because it doesn't make sense.&nbsp;<br/>

At the second meet of Critical Reading Class, we discussed the previous task with MR. Sean and it was very insighful for me, I knew whether my answer is right or wrong and then doing self reflection by myself right after the class. On the other side, we also learned the next materials about the “ Bias “.&nbsp;Based on my understanding, Bias is personal beliefs or opinion againts something, it can be the other beliefs that become a majority in society. I thought that every single person in the world has their own bias toward something. For a note, Bias is not always bad, because it was personal beliefs and opinion. Everyone has their own sight and preferences. The class was conducted quiet interactive, MR. Sean always encouraged us to be active in class, maybe some of students still hestitate to ask or gave their opinion but we could make it. By the end of the class, we're given some tasks to finish in the next week and I thought it was good for us, as a student, we must still learn the materials even though the class is over. 

I always looking for the recent news to update what happen in the world nowadays. While scrolling through social media, I found out the article talking about the statement of Malaya Language would be Asian Language and used in ASEAN. The article contain the statement of minister education, culture, research and technology of Indonesia that Bahasa Indonesia would likely deserve to be used in Asia and become Asian Language because commonly people in Asia use Bahasa Indonesia to communicate with others. In the example that I attached previously, the premise is something that become an evidence to support the author's argument. Premise could contain some facts and the fact as evidence here is Bahasa Indonesia has been thaught in several universities and mostly spoken by the people in several countries. Then, the conclusion of the statement is Bahasa Indonesia must be Asian language rather than Malaya Language because it has already acknowledged and used widely in several countries, in the meeting and any of country occasions. Lastly, the assumption of the statement is Malaya Language shouldn't be considered as Asian Language because less used by people in Asia. However, if Malaya Language is claimed as Asian Language, it would be difficult for some people to learn this language because it's rarely used in the most of countries in Asia. 

Example of Argument:<br/> Conclusion, Premis, and Assumption

<a href="https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2022/04/05/bahasa-indonesia-not-malay-should-be-aseans-main-language-says-minister/">https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2022/04/05/bahasa-indonesia-not-malay-should-be-aseans-main-language-says-minister/</a>

Positive conotation : I think it is more polite way to say that the man would be going to die if he suddently stop rather say that he will die directly.

The 7th meeting of critical reading class, we discussed about logical fallacy. Mr. Sean gave us some previews about logical fallacy at the beginning of the class before review our work in the previous week. Mr. Sean also gave us a brief explanation about what logicall fallacy is and also some types of logical fallacy. What I could catch from Mr. Sean explanation is about logical fallacy as the invalid statement and it can not be true because it logically doesn't make any sense. There are three types of logical fallacy, the first one is personal attack or hominem, then, appeal to majority or bandwagon, and the last is false analogy. After that, we were discussing about our work last week and involved the material about logical fallacy with the argument. So, we were not only talk about argument but also looking forward if there are logical fallacy in the statement or not. After that, we moved on to the next details of Logical Fallacy then class was ended with several task from Mr. Sean. 

Critical reading is more active way of reading, not only understanding the context of the text but also&nbsp;involves the process of analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating the text, so a comprehensive understanding will be reached. This is what I can understand about the meaning of doing Critical Reading at the first meeting of this class. What I expect from this Critical Reading class this semester is this course could make me more interested in reading. Then, I could&nbsp;understand and comprehend the text easily without any difficulties, especially for academic text such as journals, articles, etc. Moreover, by attending this course, I hope that I could improve my critical thinking. As we know that critical thinking is an essential thing that all students should have in this era, it teaches us how to look forward for the solution of some problem by looking from many different perspectives and various ways, which is required deeper understanding and analysis. By the end of this semester, I hope I can finish reading more journals and articles, not only&nbsp;reading but also creating some critical questions from them, then answer based on my analysis by myself. I expected this course could encourage me to learn more and more in the future, so I become a good teacher and able to teach the materials to my students well.

#LetTheEarthBreath recently become a trending topic in social media. It made me to look forward to find the credible and trusted article talking about it then I found out this one. I could say that it is the example of logical fallacy: Appeals of fear. This news reported about the scientists were arrested after warning us about the alarming and dangerous impact of increasing the production of fossil fuels and other pollution in the environment. If the government continues to use fossil fuels, we will lose everything in just 4-5 years. In addition, the ecosystem will be destroyed, a lot of pollution will occur and there will be fewer trees in the next few years.  Moreover, if it is not handled as soon as possible, the impact will be even greater to the environment. For the possible terrible outcome of that is the earth will become worse and become uninhabited, so we cannot live on this earth anymore. From the statement, it could be directly recognized as logical fallacy of appeals of fear because it is alarming something dangerous and also the probability of a terrible outcome. 

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