FINAL ASSIGNMENT M4
Instructions
As the final assignment, you will analyze one text of
each type that you yourselves will find from an authentic source (e.g.
newspaper, magazine), hence 1 news report, 1 caption, 1 advertisement, 1
review.
You will analyze each text in terms of (1) the social
function, (2) text structure, and (3) lexico-grammatical features.
Finally, summarize the analysis of each
text type in the form of a short report.
1. News Report
Days of Flooding ahead in the Carolinas as Florence Leaves at Least 8 DeadUpdated 2151 GMT (0551 HKT) September 15, 2018
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/15/us/storm-florence-carolinas/index.html
(CNN)Tropical Storm Florence's relentless rain is flooding parts of the Carolinas and promises even more for days, officials said Saturday, a day after it landed as a hurricane and left at least eight people dead -- including a baby.
The issues prompted North Carolina to tell drivers coming down Interstate 95 from Virginia to go around -- the entire state. The state wants motorists to go west to Tennessee and take Interstate 75 into Georgia.
"The one thing I want to prevent is thousands of people stranded on our interstates or US routes," said state Transportation Secretary Jim Trogdan.
A 73-mile stretch of the highway closed Saturday because of flooding and an accident involving a tractor-trailer.
Officials warned the flooding was only just starting.
"The flood danger from this storm is more immediate today than when it ... made landfall 24 hours ago," North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said Saturday morning. "We face walls of water at our coasts, along our rivers, across our farmland, in our cities and in our towns."
The storm's center is crawling over South Carolina, but many of its main rain bands still are over already-saturated North Carolina -- setting up what may be days of flooding for some communities.
Serious flooding is expected throughout the two states, and some rivers may not crest for another three to five days.
Florence crashed ashore Friday morning in North Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane, and it has wiped out power to about 796,000 customers in that state and South Carolina.
It has trapped people in flooded homes, with citizen swift-water rescue teams from out of state joining local emergency professionals to try to bring them to safety.
Steve Almasy, CNN |
News Report Analysis: No doubt of women serving as mothers of nation
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The Social Function
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The Text Structure
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The Lexico-Grammatical Features
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Target
readers:
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Headline
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- The citizen of USA
- People in general - Government |
Summarizing
the event in a telegraphic text
1)
The casualty
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8 dead
2)
The unfortunate event
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flooding
3)
The time and location (an activity
- In Carolina as
Florence Hurricane leaves
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1) Bigger
and bold fonts stating the newsworthy facts
of the event
Days of Flooding ahead in the Carolinas as Florence Leaves at Least 8 Dead
2) The Simple
Present Tense for ‘active’ voice
…as Florence leaves at least 8 dead
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The reporter’s
position towards the issue:
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Newsworthy Event
(The first paragraph)
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The
reporter has a neutral or objective
position towards the event.
Reporting the event by just retelling the information given by the main source, the officials - Tropical Storm Florence's relentless rain is flooding parts of the Carolinas and promises even more for days, officials said Saturday, a day after it landed as a hurricane and left at least eight people dead -- including a baby. - "The flood danger from this storm is more immediate today than when it ... made landfall 24 hours ago," North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said Saturday morning. "We face walls of water at our coasts, along our rivers, across our farmland, in our cities and in our towns." - "The one thing I want to prevent is thousands of people stranded on our interstates or US routes," said state Transportation Secretary Jim Trogdan. There is no evidence of offensive or emotional expressions used in the news report. |
Tropical Storm Florence's relentless rain is flooding parts of the Carolinas and promises even more for days, officials said Saturday, a day after it landed as a hurricane and left at least eight people dead -- including a baby. |
A sentence or sentences in the
first paragraph containing all important facts about
the event: (1) the casualty, (2) the accident, (3) the reason, (4) the time,
and (5) the location; the verb in the simple present and simple past
Tropical Storm Florence's relentless rain is flooding parts of the Carolinas and promises even more for days, officials said Saturday, a day after it landed as a hurricane and left at least eight people dead -- including a baby. It starts with the name of the Website where the news was reported, in small cap characters: (CNN)Tropical Storm Florence's….. |
Events
in Details
(The following paragraph)
The issues prompted North Carolina to tell drivers coming down Interstate 95 from Virginia to go around -- the entire state. The state wants motorists to go west to Tennessee and take Interstate 75 into Georgia.
"The one thing I want to prevent is thousands of people stranded on our interstates or US routes," said state Transportation Secretary Jim Trogdan.
A 73-mile stretch of the highway closed Saturday because of flooding and an accident involving a tractor-trailer.
Officials warned the flooding was only just starting.
"The flood danger from this storm is more immediate today than when it ... made landfall 24 hours ago," North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said Saturday morning. "We face walls of water at our coasts, along our rivers, across our farmland, in our cities and in our towns."
The storm's center is crawling over South Carolina, but many of its main rain bands still are over already-saturated North Carolina -- setting up what may be days of flooding for some communities.
Serious flooding is expected throughout the two states, and some rivers may not crest for another three to five days.
Florence crashed ashore Friday morning in North Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane, and it has wiped out power to about 796,000 customers in that state and South Carolina.
It has trapped people in flooded homes, with citizen swift-water rescue teams from out of state joining local emergency professionals to try to bring them to safety.
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1) Simple
Past Tense
- The issues prompted North Carolina to tell drivers coming down…. - A 73-mile stretch of the highway closed Saturday because… - Officials warned the flooding was only just starting.
2)
Present
Perfect Tense
- North Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane, and it has wiped out power to about 796,000 customers in that state and South Carolina. - It has trapped people in flooded homes, with citizen swift-water rescue teams from out of state joining local emergency professionals to try to bring them to safety.
3)
Direct
quotations to report the events
- "The one thing I want to prevent is thousands of people stranded on our interstates or US routes," said state Transportation Secretary Jim Trogdan. - "The flood danger from this storm is more immediate today than when it ... made landfall 24 hours ago," North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said Saturday morning.
4)
Participle (present) to state the circumstances
surrounding the event.
- The issues prompted North Carolina to tell drivers coming down Interstate 95 from Virginia to go around -- the entire state.. - The storm's center is crawling over South Carolina, but many of its main rain bands still are over already-saturated North Carolina -- setting up what may be days of flooding for some communities
5)
Prepositional phrases to state the circumstances
surrounding the events
- across our farmland
- in our cities
- in our towns
- over south Carolina
- in that state
and South Carolina
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News’
Agent initial:
| Steve Almasy, CNN |
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2. Caption  |
Caption Analysis
1.
The Social Function
The highlight of the caption is Mural
art by Ledania decorated the
buildings at Taman Ismail Marzuki
The
circumstances surround the event:
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Mural Paintings
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Colorful wall/ Building
The caption relate to the headline :
The
creator of mural art that adorned Taman Ismail Marzuki is Ledania, a muralist
from Colombia
2.
The Text Structure
3.
The
Grammatical Features
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Mural art by Ledania decorated Taman
Ismail Marzuki
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A
mural art by the muralist of Colombia, Ledania, adorned the Taman Ismail
Marzuki, Cikini, Jakarta, on Tuesday 11 September 2018.
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3. Advertisement
Advertisement
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Analysis
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Source: Stuff Magazine 2018
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Social
function:
To Persuade people to buy the product
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The Generic Structure
There is product name in advertisement.
The users of the product are people in
general especially those who love high technology
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The
Lexico Grammatical Features:
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Using Superlative
Adjective
The NUU Mobile G3 is one of the best devices in its price range.
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Using disjunctive
clause
Beautiful
Design. High-Tech Features. Affordable Price. Beauty Meets Design.
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4. Movie Review: The Martian
By
Jared Bernstein
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October
5, 2015
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I rarely go to big movies on opening weekends, but having loved the book (by Andy Weir), my family and I donned our 3-D glasses and went to see “The Martian,” starring Matt Damon, on opening night.
It’s often a disappointment to see the movie version of a book you really enjoyed, because when you read, the characters and settings you create in your mind’s eye are not the same ones you’ll see on the screen. Because of that, there’s often some unsettling cognitive dissonance — “That’s not how I envisioned the Hab!” (the astronauts’ dwelling on Mars). But the movie smartly hewed closely to the book, and was — trust me, I did the math — 89 percent as good.
It’s the story of Mark Watney, abandoned on Mars after his crew members mistakenly conclude that he died during a violent storm that forced them to cancel their exploratory mission and leave the planet (this much is in the trailer; I’m no spoiler). It has thus been called “Robinson Crusoe on Mars,” but I don’t think that’s such an apt comparison.
Unlike Crusoe, Watney is the only person on the planet on which he finds himself. (Crusoe remains on Earth, where he eventually befriends an escaped captive, whom he calls “Friday.”) In this sense, Weir sets himself a huge storytelling challenge: how to engage readers when there’s literally no one for Watney to fall in love with or fight against. The usual sources of conflict and character development are 35 million miles away (and that’s when Mars and Earth are closest to each other).
True, folks back on Earth are trying to help him get home and the rest of his crew plays an important part in the action, but the core of the movie is Watney alone on the planet.
What makes the book and movie so uniquely interesting is how the story meets that literary challenge. In fact, there’s an extremely compelling relationship at the heart of the story: the one between Watney and survival.
Watney’s relationship with survival completely absorbs him (as well as us), tapping his deep knowledge as a scientist, astronaut and botanist (“the greatest botanist on this planet!” as he tells himself). His challenge is existential, sure, but it’s mainly practical. How do you grow plants on Mars with lame soil and no water? How do you adapt machinery to do stuff it wasn’t intended for? How do you communicate with Earth?
Most importantly, how do you not look out at the barren planet on which you’re the only living thing and not go crazy and give up? The answer, which I found to be Zen, is that you recognize that it is the path that matters. You cannot control your ultimate fate. You often don’t get to choose your path (or, in Zen, your “karma”). All you can do is put your best effort into solving the problems life throws your way. That is a good day’s work; perhaps, it’s the only really good day’s work.
For most of us, getting left behind on Mars won’t be our challenge. But many face challenges much more existential because they’re real: keeping your children alive when bombs are hitting hospitals, murderous gang members are lurking in housing projects, seriously disturbed, dangerous individuals are able to purchase arsenals of weapons, the climate is warming because of carbon emissions.
I know, movies like this are a healthy bit of escapism from all that depressing stuff, and I apologize for the buzzkill. But I go there only because there’s an important message in “The Martian” that we need to apply to our politics: You can’t solve problems without facts.
If Watney survived (you’ll have to find out for yourself), he did so by applying scientific knowledge about how things work. The analogy for public policy is that denying climate change or trying 50-plus times to repeal Obamacare or refusing to take any action on gun control are not just the actions of dysfunctional ideologues or bought-and-paid-for politicians. They are existential threats, just as dangerous to us as not applying hard science to his problem would have been for Watney.
Unlike Watney, we don’t always see that, because the result of our dysfunction and fact denial is a slow burn while he’s racing against a clock. (If he runs out of food before he can get out of there, he’s dead.) But look around. Read Peter Wehner’s analysis of the impossibility of repealing Obamacare and the “fury” that has resulted among the hard right, which views Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as a possible savior. (“Maybe this loudmouthed boor can actually accomplish something.”) Listen to President Obama finally putting aside “our thoughts and prayers” on gun violence and turning it back to the rest of us to do something about it by holding do-nothing politicians accountable. Note theinequality-induced persistent and growing gap between productivity growth and median pay.
Of course, it’s harder to solve income inequality and gun violence than to make water on Mars by burning hydrazine to separate hydrogen and oxygen (which, to be fair, isn’t easy either). And yes, reality will always be way more complicated than movies. But all I’m saying is this:
There’s an uplifting feeling throughout “The Martian” that’s too often absent in the rest of public life, and it’s not just because Matt Damon is so appealing. It’s because we are wired to recognize the truth of what I’m trying to say here: Using our minds to solve problems is how we survive and prosper.
While a minority of Americans — often those who make money off it — applauds dysfunction, climate denial, the lack of common-sense gun legislation, government shutdowns, the threat to default on the debt, and so on, most of us are discomforted by it. For most, that takes the shape of an eye roll or head shake — “there they go again.”
One lesson of “The Martian” is that we should respect, nurture and stoke that discontent. It is the natural, rational reaction to bad logic and the elevation of falsehood. And at the end of the “sol” (that’s a day on Mars), like that of Mark Watney, our survival depends on it.
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