Monday, February 16, 2009

According to the article “Body Language That Speak To Muggers”, it is have the ten elements that i had learnt before this. But, for this entries i just want to focus on argument and evidence. The first evidence is Betty Grayson and Morris Stein, who got “muggability” ratings of 60 New York City pedestrian from the people who may be most qualified to judge. The other evidence is reasercher had a trained dance analyst classify each person's use of 26 movements that form basic components in Labanalysis, a common system for describing a notating movements. Then for the arguments are Grayson and Stein explain the scale to 53 other convicted muggers and ask them to rate each of people on the tape. The other arguments is according to commonsense opinion offered by the Crime Prevention Section of the New York City Police Department, crime victims typically walk around them.

READING 4.3

This chapter which is entitle “ what is the evidence” is tell us about the famous case of the kidnapping of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh and examine the evidence, wholly circurmstial, that led to the conviction and execution of Bruno Hauptmann. Including historical treatments of past events. In all cases, he argues that a reader should maintain a critical stance towards everything that is read, always asking the question. The circumstantial evidence is not altogather trustworthy as a basic of determaining guilt. They prefer testimonal evidence such as that of eyewitnesses who testify that they themselve have seen the accused commit the reader.

READING 4.4

This chapter will cover on topic “Statistic”. It is all about the concerned with the use and misuse of statistic and is intended to caution readers into a more informed response to texts that link facts and figures it begins by defining terms, mentioning a number of domains where statistic slips that can be made. To look the statistic it can be made by differents way which is graph, charts, and so on. Among the most common statistical slips that might consciously or unconscoiusly be made by the following point. First of all, unqualified average, fallcious sampling, percentage unaccompanied by actual number and misleading presentation.

READING 4.5

This chapter was dissusing the topic about “Crooked and fallacious”it is actually all about the the thinking only evidence of illogical mental processes and poor communication skill bit is also a manipulative tool in the hands of speaker. Besides, in context where there is an intent to persuade someone towards a particular belief or course of action. Not just that it use the differents words to describe another things that have the same meaning. This is the one of the thing that some people use to tell something about someone.

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