Introduction to Critical Literacy.

In critical literacy, the students were taught to analyze the text, which is academic articles, advertisement, newspaper reports, or book. There are 10 element that student should consider in critical literacy which is topic, content, source, audience, rhetorical function, purpose, perspective, positioning, impact, and visual literacy. I would like to take a news paper report as an example. The article is “Convicted killer” which is told the reader about Deborah Parry’s case. Based from the article, the writer try to informing the reader about the murder of a nurse in Dhahran Hospital in Saudi Arabia by the suspect which is Deborah Parry. The writer also warning the reader to be careful because the convicted killer is back at work. She will continue working as nurse in a hospital since she has been free from the case. The writer position Parry as a guilty person. This is obviously seen from the title itself. The writer positioned Parry as “Convicted Killer”, even though there is no prove show that she is guilty.