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Monday, March 7, 2011

Reflection on Second Assignment (Blog)

In doing this assignment, we have to find a blog out of thousands in the internet to be our corpus in analyzing the language features used. We found an interesting blog on fashion  that attracted as much as one thousand comments. It clearly shows that this blog is a good corpus for us to do our assignment. However, due to lots of comments, we also have to go through it one by one. Thus, this assignment which seems to be an easy work, became too tedious for us. Alhamdulillah, with all the group members help, we managed to go through it and came out with the results. 


Through this assignment, we also see that communication process between human happens almost everywhere in variety of phases.  It can be face to face conversation, written through email, phone conversations and such. As far as speaking and writing methods concern, there are many effective ways to convey our message to others.

What we learn in this assignment which focuses on blog, is that every individual has their own style of writing. The study focuses on the blog as a social conversation and personal discourse platform for expression and also the significance of the way a language features are used. People may be different in their way of conversation depending on the situation and medium of the conversation.

Through this assignment, we noticed that people usually use same style of writing, for example emotive and colloquial features. this is due to the reason that the aspect of face to face conversation is not there. Therefore, the writer of a blog will choose certain words that can give more impact to readers.

By doing this research we become aware of the fact that we need to be cautious in writing blog. A language used can effect the readers directly or indirectly which we as a writer should be responsible on the consequences. Islam gives a person freedom of speech so that we can use it for a good purpose. We can see how beautiful a language is created that people can communicate in many different ways and giving the impact of understanding to the listeners or readers. 

Allah (s.w.t) mentioned in the Qur'an: 



مَا يَلْفِظُ مِن قَوْلٍ إِلَّا لَدَيْهِ رَقِيبٌ عَتِيدٌ (18)ق


Man does not utter any word except that with him is an observer prepared [to record].

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