It is the first time I saw Miss Zu was so happy. All the time she is smiling. She said that all of us did an excellent work. Congratulations to all my classmates. Give a big applause to yourself !
This the complete essay that my group did.
Introductory Paragraph
According to New Straits Times, the latest case was a dead baby girl found floating in a sewage tank behind a girls' college hostel in remote Kelantan two days ago. The decomposed body was found by a group of boys playing nearby. Two more abandoned baby cases were reported that day in Malacca and Kuala Lumpur. This situation can be caused by many factors which surround us. Thus, baby dumping is caused by peer pressure, modern technology and lack of knowledge in individual self.
Body Paragraph
Peer pressure is one of the factors that contribute to baby dumping. Drinking, smoking, have sex when a person is not ready and whatever it may be, sometimes others put the pressure on you to participate in something that you might not want to do it. This kind of pressure can cover everything from fashion through sex and dating. It needs to be made aware that peers can prove to have influence on each other. When your friends ask you something that you never do before this, you will make it as a challenge such as having a couple as well as having a sex. As a result, the victim will be pressured to do the baby dumping. Thus, one should not succumb to a peer pressure when it comes to doing the bad thing from the starting.
Another cause of baby dumping in this country is due to modern technology. Nowadays, people have unlimited communication with each other due to the presence of numerous social networking. Examples of social networking are Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Messenger and many more. All of these social networks can bring negative impact to those people who misuse it. The negative impact of social networking is evident in online dating when the couple meets face-to-face for the first time. Commonly their personalities do not match their self-written descriptions. They use the wrong detail of personalities to trap people. After that, he would ask for a blind date after they managed to deceive the victim. It might be the person she would see is a bad person. Therefore, we should not easily believe the person we just know especially through internet.
Besides, lack of knowledge in individual self also is one of the causes of baby dumping. The knowledge about sexual education has been implemented since in secondary school but some of them are not interested about it. They might be thought that they can manage their life in future. In addition, they are not thinking about negative impact that will occur in the future. For instance, when many young teenagers are doing the baby dumping, they are susceptible to side effects such as illness. Sometimes, most of them do not practise what they have learnt during the religious classes. Instead, they want to satisfy their desire. When a woman is pregnant out of wedlock, then they will take the easiest way that is baby dumping to settle the problem without thinking of religious law. Thus, every person should have general knowledge such as sexual education in order to reduce the growing incidence of abandoned babies.
Conclusion
In a nutshell, peer pressure, modern technology and lack of knowledge in individual self are the causes of baby dumping. Isn’t it clear now that baby dumping is in a critical stage? Isn't it time for the leaders of the world to stop being merely a ‘talking shop’ and actually take effective action to deal with baby dumping? Shouldn’t we, as normal citizens, stand up and be counted as well in dealing with this problem? Or are we just going to wait until baby dumping becomes the norm in our life before we actually do something?
Before the class dismissed, she gave us another assignment on argumentative essay. I think argumentative essay is like the essay that we have did just now. The difference is just you need to have a stand and the conclusion must included the refutation. It is an individual assignment and must be submitted on Thursday.
Certain television programme are considered to be unsuitable for children. Do you agree or disagree? Give your opinion.
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Night
We learn something new on a reading part. Our topic is Interpreting writers' points of view, attitudes or intentions.
Example :
We have long been aware of the need to involve people for these medical tests.
We have long been aware that people are being used for these abominable tests.
* Both sentences discuss the involvement of people in medical test.
In the first sentence, the writer displays a neutral attitude towards the issue. However, in the second sentence, it is clear that the writer believes that using people in medical tests is cruel or horrible. In other words, he is biased towards the issue. The writer used the words 'used' and 'abominable' to convey this attitude.
Tone refers to the writer's use of words and writing styles to demonstrate his or her stand towards the issue in a text. Examples of tone words :
abstruse, absurd, mocking, malicious, evasive, cynical,intense, condescending.
WRITER'S INTENTIONS
Classified into 4 :
- to persuade
- to inform
- to entertain
- to instruct
Answering the questions below will help you in analysing the writer's intention :
- What is the tone of the writer ?
- What are the writer's point of view/beliefs on the issue ?
- Who is the writer ? ( background, occupation )
- Who is the intended audience ?
- What is his statement of purpose/thesis statement ?
- What do the titles, headings, boldface, italic suggest ?
- What are being highlighted in the introductive and concluding paragraph ?
Next, we learn about analysing and evaluating reading texts.
In order to analyse a reading text, you must first be able to determine the writer's point of view, tone and intention. All the skills that have been discussed in the earlier topics such as making inference, distinguish between facts and opinions and drawing conclusion can also help you in analysing a text before evaluating it.
Next, in evaluating a text, you need to judge whether the writer has provided facts or fallacies in achieving his or her purpose. This requires you to decide whether the writer has successfully provided a sound argument on a topic or merely stated flawed reasoning which will lead to bias. Below are some examples of flawed reasoning ::
(a) Personal Attack : focusing the argument on the person's personality/background etc rather the issue at hand.
(b) Over-generalisation : forming a general opinion based on inadequate examples.
(c) Jumping on the and bandwagon : trying to persuade readers to agree on an idea because the majority does.
(d) Quoting on the wrong authority : citing a person who is famous but is not an authority on what he or she is talking about.
After learning the whole thing, each group must write about who is the writer, the target audience, writer's tone, words or phrases used and writer's intention in front of the class. We are given a video clip of Pink entitled 'Family Potrait', an advertisement about a child who mistreat her father and another advertisement that is the only person who saved from the car accident is the one who fasten the seatbelt. I enjoy the night class so much even though my group never win any games.
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