Critical Reading and Argumentative Texts

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What is the term for reading that involves thoroughly understanding a text, including both stated and implied information?

  • Systematic reading
  • Careful reading
  • Critical reading
  • Speed reading
  • Comprehensive reading (correct)

Which statements reflect the goals of critical reading?

  • Recognizing the topic briefly, evaluating the author's presentation, and increasing reading interest and critical thinking.
  • Identifying the main topic briefly, understanding the author's intent, and evaluating the author's presentation.
  • Recognizing the topic briefly, understanding the author's intent, and increasing reading interest.
  • Identifying the topic briefly, understanding the author's intent, and evaluating the author's presentation, and increasing reading interest
  • Evaluating the author's presentation, increasing reading interest and critical thinking, and understanding the author's intent. (correct)

In an argumentative text, which component presents the foundation or justification for the arguments being presented by the author?

  • Conclusion
  • Theoretical framework
  • Introduction
  • Problem statement
  • Body of arguments (correct)

How does the presence of a main idea (ide pokok) assist in paragraph development?

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What type of paragraph consists of a general statement followed by several explanatory sentences?

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Considering the statement, 'Land suitable for industry can use barren land. The government is building infrastructure on barren land to support industrial needs. This infrastructure construction does not take productive agricultural land...etc.' What question aligns with the paragraph's content?

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Which of the following sentences represents a factual statement?

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Which number indicates a factual statement, '1) The government allocates funds for grain drying machines. 2) Grain drying machines can increase farmers offer to Bulog. 3) The government should pay attention to farmers fate. 4) Just mere promises and claiming to care for farmers'?

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Festival Lima Gunung is a celebration of art held annually by the Lima Gunung Community. What is the main idea of this paragraph?

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What type of poster is it?

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Flashcards

What is cermat reading?

Reading deeply to understand both explicit and implicit information.

What is landasan teori?

The underlying foundation or justification for an argument

What is a function of core ideas?

The role of core ideas in aiding paragraph development.

What is Deductive Paragraph?

A paragraph that begins with a general statement followed by specific explanations.

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Festival Lima Gunung is...

An event with traditional and modern arts by Komunitas Lima Gunung every year

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What is layanan masyarakat poster?

A type of poster that is for social service

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What is story that is asing?

Text where the author's intention is to show the reader more than is already there

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What is a fact?

The idea can be accepted with logical proofs and has facts

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What does Genjah mean?

Harvest in short time

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What is kohesi?

Semantic relations between elements in a text.

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Study Notes

  • 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.

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