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Book Analysis : Individual Differences September 29, 2007

BOOK ANALYSIS 

TITLE : INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 

In Computer Assisted Language Learning

WRITER :        : Hartoyo, M.A.,Ph.D

By                    : Romlan Syukur

 INTRODUCTION 

I have often heard about ICT , I  usually know it  from  radio, television, internet, magazine, newspapers, friends and  any other resources. Nowadays, people are used to talking  about it.  They talk about the  benefit of it, other talk  about  negative  effect of it. However, we  often hear about ICT , a lot of us  are afraid of it.  To tell you the truth this experience  happened to me, before I took  ICT in Education with Mr. Hartoyo I am hardly ever used internet  or email, I my mind at that time is playing internet is  time consuming, useless and so on  and I think that’s  reason is  make sense because  when I  tried to search  the information I need to sit and  spend  for about  one  or two hours just wait and wait. But  now  I have changed  my  paradigm , after  taking part  in  Mr/ Hartoyo lecturing  I realize  that  ICT is a mean it is a tool to make  our  life easier, more effective, more  efficient , more comfortable and more attractive. ICT  depends on us the users. Therefore when  we are asked  to present a material  from   Mr. Hartoyo’s book  we get a lot of information  and  experience how important  ICT is.

OBJECTIVE

The objective  of this paper is  to analysis  Mr. Hartoyo’s book  especially about  strength and weaknesses of it.

STERENGNESS

I think  the strength of  this  book  is so many  but here  I  will try to  analysis  from  the  title  of  this book. The title  can be read, it’s clear enough  and I think the reader  will be easier  to grasp the information. The second  is  talking  about Mechanics . The writer  makes no mistakes in capitalization or punctuation, so paragraph  by paragraph  is exceptionally  easy to read it means that this book is used the high quality of academic  writing standard. The third  is grammar. There are almost no grammatical  errors. The writer makes  no errors in spelling that  distract the reader from content , it is really good book  in grammar . The forth is  sources . All sources  have  strong  data, the writer used  fact   credible and cited correctly. Let see in unit two, the writer cited mire than 20 sources, it is really written by using high academic standard.  The fifth is content. Talking  about the  content of this book is really deep in content. This book is all supportive  facts accurately. The writer seems to  write  from his knowledge  and experience, focus, and  supported  by detailed information.

WEAKNESSES 

Talking about  weaknesses  of this book, I think it’s a hard job. Why?  Because  the writer  has succeed  to use the academic standard  for  writing  his book. Here  I only want  to give  a bit suggestion  about  this book. There are  two  suggestion from me. Number one if this book is going to  sell in public  I think it will be better if the  cover  is more eye catching. The combination between brown and black  make the reader bit hard  to  choose it. Number two  I think  the citation and quotation  are too many . We can see it in  page 11, here the writer prove  the data by citing more than 20 sources, in fact, sometimes, the reader just want to know about the content  not the sources

 CONCLUSION 

Individual; Differences in Computer Assisted  Learning  (CAL)  written by Hartoyo,M.A., Ph.D is really good book. It fulfill a high academic standard, how the writer cites or quoate and show the evidence is really clear and give strong data. The diction is  excellence ; easy to understand and vary in words, simple but high in quality of information, grammatically correct, it is hard to find the weaknesses of this book.