A critique

The author’s, who wrote this bibliography, main point was ‘stress at work’. He wants readers to know what the causes of job stress are. He emulated some information about causes of job stress that are well-organized and easy to understand. Background knowledge was not pretty much needed because we’ve had experienced about it every day. Moreover, the author stated some examples about job stress in details, and made me feel as if it were real.
One thing I want to criticize, however, is among the examples, one of them was ‘job stress and women’. He agreed with women’s feeling in their workplace where they have to endure mental and physical harassment. Also he said that women usually get stress from unwelcome verbal or physical conduct, and offensive or intimidating behavior. I thought it can be true. On the other hand, I thought that the writer had better write not only women’s but also men’s side. Because men also can have stress from women who don’t want to work same as men. In other words, now the author wrote very well, but if he treated both sides, it could be more perfect without any discontent.

#4 reading task !

According to Robert Burns in "Unwind‐ 10 Ways to Manage Stress and Improve your Wellbeing" published in 1992 , when stressed, people experience a number of physiological responses and get physical and emotional problems easily.
According to Burns, Physical effects are as follows. “A sudden shock may cause people to sweat, to start trembling, or may faint or even vomit”. (Robert Burns, Unwind, 1992, p.59) He stated that if disorders persist long enough, these may become organic illnesses. In other words, excessive amounts of stress over prolonged periods can lead to serious illness, including heart disease and cancer.(Robert Burns, Unwind, 1992, p.84) Moreover, he showed emotional effects of stress that are including anxiety, depression, hysteria and obsessions.
In this book, Burns suggests some managements of stress, one of them is “Managing your time effectively”.(Robert Burns, Unwind, 1992, p.214) He said that there are main points to remember. One of them is to establish and schedule priorities.(Rubert Burns, Unwind, 1992, p.221) Another one he said is to do the things you want to do. Burns explained that people should increase their time to choose when they can do the things they want to do. Like this way, he gives advice people to manage their time effectively.

A critique of my text

The author who wrote this bibliography gave me useful information about ‘physical benefits of exercise’ which is one of ways to maintain good health. It was logical and well-organized text. His intended audience might be older than high school students because great wealth of knowledge is needed if readers want to understand every term. He had an underlying assumption which is that the major cause of death in Australia is heart disease. He compared last 10-year people who didn’t have regular exercise programmes with today people who have become involved in regular exercise programmes. It was helpful evidence for me to believe benefits of exercise.

However, from following paragraph, the author showed himself diffident. Because according to the paragraph, he neither convinced readers that his article is true, because of these words, ‘perhaps’, ‘seems’. These words were able for me to be confused that the fact is true or not. Also this sentence contained these words evoked a strong response from me. It was that ‘people who are overweight do not necessarily eat more than those with normal weight, but they do move less.’ It might not be true. In my opinion, when the people are at workplaces, they must be busy doing their own positions, sometimes they can have shiftworking, so their work time will be unstable. It can make people eat at night during working. It means that the environments of them could make people overweight. This sentence in this paragraph could make overweight people upset. In my opinion, the author should have had the exact words or supportable evidences in this part.