Unit 8

This unit is about the critical review ‘Drugs or Guns”. This article is about the issues in South Africa’s country whether to focus on the medicine to cure AIDS or to buy weapon for the country. The leadership of the government also been questioned. There are also many statistical and facts have been included in the text. The difficulties and obstacles that I have encountered in this topic are to identify the purpose and rhetorical function of this article. The writer did not clearly state about his or her intention in this article. This article also included many content and did not focus on topic only. The topics are about the drugs and weapon, government of South Africa and also about the country policies. The aspect that I found valuable is the perspective of the writer. The perspective of the writer is clearly can be seen as condemning the South Africa government and its policies and the writer support the drugs for AIDS. The statistical and facts included in the article is used by the article to support her stance but it is not effective because how evidence is used in the text to support the evidence does not been included. The positioning of the participants in the article is clearly can be seen. The Mbeki government and policies have been described as bad character while the drugs to prevent the AIDS have been support by the writer. In this unit, the aspect that I found difficulties in this article is the impact to the readers. It is difficult to identify because the writer has not covered satisfactorily on the likely impact. This is also related with the rhetorical function or purpose, the writer did not explain about the purpose and rhetorical function clearly and effectively.