Journal 1 by Mariah

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JOURNAL 1

You heard comments and maybe grievances from your seniors about Critical Literacy, but what is/are expectation (s) or hope for this course as you are just started?


    When I enrolled into this semester, Critical Literacy is one of the course I look forward for. From what I heard in previous batch and seniors, they mentioned that this is one of the course I cannot escape from writing, writing and writing. I responded with a smile probably because I have always had an aptitude for writing, but until I realized that this course to be full of complexity.

‘Critical’ – as the name of the subject itself has shown an insight that it requires highest level of academic thinking skills in literacy (writing). I expect this course to be an absolute check whether students really understand an idea and content presented instead of just "knowing" alone. From what I could tell, students will be challenged with various methods on how to really be implementing techniques, concept, and skills of maximum level of thinking for every stages of assessment. Thus, I expect to encounter such concepts that is engaging, fun, wise challenging task. I am also expecting this course in a good way as it teaches that academic syllabus indeed is not as simple as it looks like because students will going through phases by phases of brain-processing during the process of learning. Similar to the rest of my expectations on other subject that has to do with writing that believed to sharpened my present skills. However, Critical Literacy might be slightly challenging when I first lookup on the syllabus and chapters covered. For me, this is the kind of course that measure my performance between lower and upper semester based on inner capability and potential. The ideology and content really do reflect students to think critically. Coming to the subject, I have a minor expectations that it is a combination to the course of literature and tertiary learning during semester 3, where good times are spent not only be studying Shakespeare but also time spent in writing consistently. Thus, most of the useful part of this course would be it has the capability to reinforce my writing skills as I do expect the writing style of critical literacy will be similar as previous semester, just that it requires more careful steps and terms such as the rule of 10. I aspire this course to be the course where I reach my audience’s understanding and comprehension, as I believe writing is a form of expression as well.

Coming to the end, I strongly have a good instinct that this course will put me in a good use. Although it falls under the group of academic writing, it surely would give glimpse of confidence in writing any other papers outside syllabus. I will try my best to exert my greatest effort in all the syllabus requirements. Among all my expectations, I expect this course to be my top core subject out regardless.

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