Reflection on Blog (Week 1)

This week we had been given a task to make a portfolio about Convicted killer. Miss Syida, my lecturer for Critical Literacy patiently guides us on how to make a good portfolio. Surely, introduce for this new subject is really challenging. For our first encounter, we had to make a review on article title ‘Convicted Killer’. According to Miss Syida, when read an article, we should not trust it completely.

It happened when I read the article about ‘Convicted Killer’. This article is about a nurse name Deborah Parry that convicted for a kill of her own colleague in Saudi Arabia. My first impression when I first look at her picture is she looks quite innocent. It’s hard to imagine a nurse to involve with a crime. Based on our review, we had to complete the portfolio task and answer all the questions that related with the article. Surely, without Miss Syida guidance, I completely at loss, as drowning into the wide sea.

We also had to listen for a presentation by our classmate. The group member consists of Fiza, Syuhada, Atiqah and Fatimah. Supposedly, there should be two group presented on that day. However, one of the group unable to present it on that day because of several reason. Fiza’s group presents the topic about ‘Rules and Regulations’. In my opinion, their group had done a good by presenting all the information needed for this topic.

Based on their presentation, rules mean an instruction for behaving in ways while regulation means a rule or instruction that must be obeyed. Rules can be divided into two categories which is imperative and declarative. Imperative can be defined as give command and should be taken seriously. As example, ‘I order you’. However, declarative sound more be taken seriously. For example, I order parent’. This phrase showed the order is not focusing on certain people like imperative, it more focusing on a group, which is parent.

There are differences between rules and regulations. Rules can be making by anyone, even I can make my own rules. For example, if I am on diet, I have to make a rule for myself to control my appetite. However, regulation cannot be simply made by ordinary people. It has to be making by people in high rank to ensure the stability of a community or organization. For our last class activity, Miss Syida had asked us to mark our friend paper. It almost takes about half an hour to mark my friend paper. In conclusion, this activity quite interesting because from my friend answer, I can compare it with my own answer. I also get to know a few mistakes that make by me by marking my friend answer sheet.