5) You have almost completed this semester, so, how do you view Critical Literacy now? If you have any comments and suggestion, please do so as it helps for the betterment of the course as a whole.

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Course statement

Critical reading, thinking and analysing; perspective and impact; context, purpose and function of texts; structure and organising of academic texts; opinion, fact, evidence, argument processing text such as summarising, synthesing, comparing, evaluating; developing cohesion and coherence; drafting, editing and redrafting.

I copied that from the module.

Realize it or not, we all Semester 4 DEC students are preparing for our finals like for another 3 weeks from now. Who knew, huh? It feels just like yesterday was our first day of class but this semester almost done.

First of all, I want to say thanks to Madam Yaya for being our lecturer for this subject. Thank you for all the teaching and makes me understanding about what is Critical Literacy all about.

Critical Literacy is actually a comprehension about an article. I admit it is kinda hard to understand first time learning this stuff. I couldn't really catch-up what is the topic, the positioning, the perspective and all other stuff in the rule of 10 but the key to actually understand it is to asked your lecturer and brainstorming it with your friend. It is easier that way. Critical Literacy is way different from other subject. In this subject, your opinion matter. Everything that write and you think is all related. From the topic to the visual literacy.

My tips for new students is don't see Critical Literacy as a hard subject and I know all your senior says that but it's not really hard. All you will learn is Rule of 10. It is that simple. It's like Mathematics. You just memorized the formula, sure do you can understand any articles. For assignment, make sure you make a draft first so you can get a better perspective on that article. Make sure you know how to divided your time. It's ok to do last minute work but still make sure you know what you doing.

For betterment, I going to make it short. I know the lecturers trying so hard to make the students understand how to analyse and all the stuff but still there's still some student that find it really hard to understand. If possible make it simple and easy to understand.  Just making sure the lecturers aware about that. Somehow, the student can't rely 100% on the lecturer. If it's ok I guess the mass lecture should not be change. Let it be an hour. I mean it can be 2 hours but then students might get bored easily.

Lastly, thank you again Madam Yaya and Madam Za for all your time spend on teaching us. See you again next time.

Lots of love,
Nor Athira Sujino
DEC 4C, 2015