Week 5

This week, Miss Syida had taught us on positioning. Based from her explanation, positioning is about how writer construct the people in the text and how the writer construct the reader. As example, in article title ’Please let me go to your school’ the writer had constructed Scarlett ,as if she should be given a chance to continue her study although she is disable. The writer showed her disappointment towards the school action that didn’t allowed Scarlett to study at their school However, the writer only stated the statement that support Scarlett by not including the explanation by the school towards their action. Thus, it showed that the writer had being bias because only include the statement from one side. By making Scarlett as the object of attention, it develop a feeling if sympathize towards the reader.
On Friday, my group had been present the topic about Types of Exposition. After few weeks commending over other people group, the time’s has come for me and my partner Syairiah to present our topic. Exposition can be divide into two categories which is hortatory and analytical. Hortatory exposition can be seen in letter to editor or political speech while analytical is written at examination answers and essay writing.
Hortatory play with more feeling and attitude because wanted people to give action or react towards certain problem. In contrast, analytical didn’t use feeling because the aim of the writing is only to accomplish their goal and feeling is not required. As example, when we were given a task on essay writing, we are determined to finish it and therefore it does not include our feeling like hortatory writing. It can be conclude that exposition can influence the reader and it can be persuasive.