Critical Reading and Argumentative Texts

• Deeply understanding a reading, both the stated and implied information, is called careful reading.

Reading Objectives

• Identifying the topic of a reading briefly.
• Understanding the author's intention.
• Evaluating the author's presentation.
• Enhancing reading interest and ability, and critical thinking.
• Statements that represent the purpose of critical reading are numbers 1), 3), and 4).

Argumentative Text Structure

• The structure of an argumentative text that contains arguments to be presented by showing the basis or foundation of an argument to be conveyed by the author is an introduction.
• The main idea helps in developing a paragraph.
• This is the function of the main idea for the writer.
• A paragraph consisting of a general statement followed by several explanatory sentences is a deductive paragraph.
• Land that can be used for industry can be barren land.
• The government builds infrastructure on barren land to support industrial needs.
• This infrastructure development does not take productive agricultural land.
• Production land generally has good infrastructure.
• In this way, the goal of the greatest possible prosperity for the people can be achieved.
• A question that corresponds to the content of the paragraph is: Why is the government building infrastructure for industry?
• The following is a factual statement: According to information from BMKG class I Juanda, cloudy to rainy sky conditions will still color the skies of the Surabaya area.
• The government allocates funds for the procurement of grain drying machines.
• Grain drying machines can increase farmers' bargaining power.
• The government must pay attention to the fate of farmers.
• Sentences of fact in the text are found in numbers 1) and 2).
• The core idea of the paragraph is that the Festival Lima Gunung (Five Mountains Festival) is an annual art celebration held by the Lima Gunung Community.
• The poster is a type of event poster.
• The development of electronic technology in Indonesia is very rapid.
• Many tools used by the community use electrical energy, including household appliances, office equipment, and communication tools.
• This causes an increase in the use of electrical energy.
• Therefore, there is a need for a movement to save electricity.
• The passage belongs to the type of exposition text.
• Many children's stories by Indonesian authors are more foreign than translated stories.
• Authors use settings, names, and storylines that tend to be alienating, even from the title.
• This trait is very evident among energetic children's authors, but they have too much foreign intake, whether from cartoons or foreign comics.
• They are more accepting of imagining Anna and Elsa than Bawang Merah and Bawang Putih or Timun Emas.
• In appearance, Anna and Elsa better represent the imagination of a super-powered and sociable princess.
• The purpose of the author in the paragraph is to explain that Indonesian children's stories are more foreign than cartoons, foreign comics, or translated stories.
• The following are steps in making a digital poster, except for the poster-making process.
• The sustainability of the Nantu Nature Reserve forest in Gorontalo is increasingly threatened.
• This is because illegal miners have started to appear there.
• They are looking for gold.
• The number of illegal miners reaches hundreds of people.
• The main idea of the text excerpt is illegal mining in the Nantu Nature Reserve forest.
• Plastic waste is very disturbing to the marine ecosystem.
• According to Clean Water Action, at least 267 species are affected by its impact, including 86% of marine species, 44% of seabird species, and 43% of marine mammal species.
• Because of plastic waste, marine inhabitants can die from choking, starvation, infection, or even drowning.
• The paradox is that plastic waste returns to humans as part of the food chain.
• Marine biologists have found pieces of plastic in consumable fish since 2008.
• The opinion sentence in the paragraph is indicated by the numbered sentence (1).

Purpose of Argumentative Text

• The purpose of creating an argumentative text is to convince the reader to feel sympathy and be influenced by the author's thoughts.
• The author's opinion in an argumentative text must be accompanied by data and facts.
• Currently, the Banjar Regency Food Crops and Horticulture Department (TPH) is intensifying the call for farmers to plant twice.
• A concrete effort is through strengthening the Banjar Sapa program.
• The implementation is to carry out the planting of superior and local rice simultaneously on the same land area.
• The superior rice seeds chosen are early-maturing seeds.
• With the selection of early-maturing rice seeds, it is expected that the harvest will be surplus.
• The meaning of the term "genjah" (early-maturing) in the paragraph means early harvest.
• The Central Statistics Agency includes food as a determinant of the poverty line.
• Therefore, the government has an interest in maintaining stable food prices.
• The President's program during his second term is to ensure that there is a reserve of ten million tons of rice, which must be pursued from domestic production.
• The advantage of producing food domestically is to avoid dependence on imports so that Indonesia has food security and sovereignty.
• The opinion contained in the text excerpt is that the government has an interest in maintaining stable food prices.
• The interconnectedness of elements in a syntactic structure or discourse structure that is marked by conjunctions, repetition, substitution, and ellipsis is understood as cohesion.