Critical Literacy (Battling the bullies)

Critical Literacy: Reading

(COM 4623)

Name: Diana Zafira bt. Mohd Anuar

Class: Decom 4D

ID : IDI 06-07-082

Reading 2.1

Battling The Bullies.

Topic

The article focuses on how to prevent and solving the bullies at school.

Content

The article covers the issue of schoolyard bullying and it’s based on real experience. The article is about Ms. Watson, the victim’s mother, Educational Psychologist, Dr. Daryl Cross and University of SA Researcher, Dr. Ken Rigby.

Source

The article comes from the education section of a daily newspaper with large leadership.

Audience

Parents and teachers.

The Rhetorical function

The article is designed to warn and to urge the reader.

Purpose

The article aims to inform the parents and teachers about bullying in school. Moreover, it also warns the teachers and schools to take immediate actions in order to overcome the bullies. Furthermore, the article advises the parents and teachers how to solve bullies problems among children at school.

Perspective

The stance taken in the article is negative.

Positioning

The article describes the school authority as if they were the one that should be blame.

Impact

The effect on readers is likely to be the parents will be more aware of the symptoms that indicate their children are being bullied. Secondly, the parents and teachers realize that bullying is not a small problem which brings them to concern more about their children. Also, the parents and teachers know how to overcome the bullies. Furthermore, the parents and teachers will be more concerned and sensitive on their children’s surroundings especially in school.

Visual Literacy

The visual aspects of the text are not significant because the word ‘bullies’ should be capitalized to make it more serious. Moreover, the image is not appropriate because it should use models of the same gender and the picture looks like sexual harassment. In addition, the headline significant because it tells the readers about the whole article.