INTERMEDIATE READING JOURNAL: B.J. HABIBIE BY THE EDITORS OF ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA

 

1. What did you find interesting about this selection?

Autobiography is dedicated for famous people or someone who gives impacts for other. I’m so interesting to this selection because B.J. Habibie is important and loved in Indonesia because of his inspiring life. This selection helps us to know his life story and take it as an example.

 

2. Did you find any interesting words in this selection? Choose one word and tell why it is important in the text.

Brilliant

Cambridge dictionary said that Brilliant has a powerful meaning,

extremely intelligent or skilled;

This word shows how impactful Habibie was, and of course he was a genius.

 

3. Why did the author write this selection? Prove your answer.

Heather McCartin, via quora.com, said that biographies are a literary genre that will never go out of style because there are always more stories to be told, sometimes from different perspectives.

 

4. What was the main idea of this selection? What supporting details helped you figure out the main idea? Use the text to support your response.

It can be proved by its title already,

B.J. Habibie

president of Indonesia

It’s talking about Habibie with his personal life story.

 

5. Were there any text features that helped you better understand this selection? What were they and how did they help you?

Personally, I think biography is easy to be understood. So, this selection plot is very clear.

 

6. What else would you like to know about the topic of this selection?

Since this biography just contains Habibie’s life until 2000, I wish that the editors of  Encyclopaedia Britannica can update it until the time he passed away and his services for Indonesia.

7. Thoroughly explain the events, procedures, ideas, or concepts that are included in this selection. Tell what happened and why based on specific information from the text.

8. What is the main purpose of this selection? Is the author trying to answer, explain, or describe in the text?

The writer wants readers to know who is Habibie and how his life is going. It’s not written on text but we all know what is biography.

 

9. What point is the author trying to make in this selection? What evidence does the author provide to support the point?

The writer wants to tell us about the real events that happened on Habibie’s life. To see good and bad without any lie.

 

10. How does the author structure this selection? Is it a comparison, cause and effect, or a sequence of events? Why did the author use that structure?

As structural, biography has three parts: orientation, events, and re-orientation. But in this text, it just has orientation and events. Because in the last paragraph, writer doesn’t write his/her comment about Habibie.

Source:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/B-J-Habibie