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Assalamualaikum,

Alhamdulillah after 1 semeter learning this subject , I've become fond to do critical literacy and will miss doing the 10 elements that have involve. A bunch of thanks have to be credited to Mdm Suzie for her time and effort in teaching us thins subject. I believe she had tried her best to make this subject easy all well receive by me and my colleague in class. I'm also relieve as we have manage to wrap-up this topic for this semester. Now we can used this kind of experience in our work field someday. I do will miss having Critical Literacy class as it has became one of our major class for this semester. Once again, we all want to thank Mdm Suzie for all of her hard-work in teaching us this semester. We hope that you've enjoyed teaching us and we are very sorry if there is any mistake that we have done.

According to Wikipedia, Critical thinking is purposeful and reflective judgment about what to believe or what to do in response to observations, experience, verbal or written expressions, or arguments. Critical thinking might involve determining the meaning and significance of what is observed or expressed, or, concerning a given inference or argument, determining whether there is adequate justification to accept the conclusion as true.

The ability to think involves 3 things:
1. An attitude of being disposed to consider in a thoughtful way the problems and subjects that come within the range of one's experiences,
2. Knowledge of the methods of logical inquiry and reasoning,
3. Some skill in applying those methods.

From my point of view, Critical Literacy or CL (as we call it here) is a very interesting subject. It involves a person to think critically using their critical thinking. The person needs to be fair and open-minded while thinking carefully about what to do or what to believe. For a critical thinker myself, I do feel at first that this subject was a bit over than what I have expected. It involves more; I mean a deep critical thinking. We need to search and comment others work using the 10 elements that is stated which is topic, content, source, audience, rhetorical function, purpose, perspective, positioning, impact and visual literacy.

Overall, the whole article that we have presented and the assignment that we have done, lead to one conclusion. That everyone has their own critical thinking, perspective and point of view. It can be seen through the 3rd assignment that we have done where we need to comment on our friends’ article. Just by looking at that, we can see that our thinking is sometimes similar and different from our friends understanding. Why does this occur? A critical thinker has an attitude--an attitude of desiring to avoid nonsense, to find the truth and to discover the best action. It's an attitude that rejects "intuiting" the truth in favor of demanding reasons.
By that, I can conclude that Critical literacy is the most interesting subject to learn as it involves a person own point of view. It is not stated that a person perspective has to be wrong or right. It depends on how the individual understand and interpret what they understand from what they have read or learn into their own critical thinking.
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