Post-Reading Task : Cell Phones in Africa

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1. What were the strengths of this passage?

- This passage has reliability and validity.

- This passage has authenticity.

2. How did the writer catch your interest in the beginning?

She arouses reader’s curiosity by presenting the paradoxical situation that growing cell phones

market in Africa although they are poor.

3. What methods did the writer use to strengthen her arguments?

- By presenting various examples.

- By presenting statistics.

- By using contrast.

4. What organization did she use to form her essay?

Intro

(paragraph

1~3)

Africa is the world’s fastest growing market for cell phones although they have poor economy

situation.

- Other forms of communication are difficult.

- Cell phones can be extremely useful.

Body

(paragraph

4~10)

paragraph

4~6

Where cell phone use has increased in Africa, the economy has been

strengthened and the people are better off.

- In Uganda, helps village women get started as phone owners.

- One woman’s income has grown since starting her villagePhone business.

- Women there will be using cell phones to raise their income level and improve

their lives.

paragraph

7

Cell phones are extremely useful in the field of health care.

- Cell phones help doctors deal with the enormous problem of HIV/AIDS.

- Cell phones allow doctors to use their time more effectively and it saves some

patients the cost and difficulty of traveling.

Paragraph

8-10

Cell phones allow text messaging.

- Text messages usually cost less to send than actual phone calls, and important

factor for many Africans.

- They are useful for people who do not have a computer themselves, but need

to send information to someone with a computer.

- Since the arrival of inexpensive cell phones in about 1999, new ways of

communication have become possible.

Conclusion

(paragraph

11)

Cell phones are helping Africans to get in touch with each other and to improve their lives.

5. How could the writer make her argument stronger?

- By balancing each part of the body.

- By organizing paragraphs more systematic.

- By dividing paragraphs simple more.

(For example, paragraphs 2 and 3 don’t need to be divided, because they have a same main idea

that the reason why cell phones spread rapidly in Africa.

- By adding more details in conclusion.