UNIT 4: ARGUMENT AND EVIDENCE

READING 4.3 (WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE)

Based on presentation by Nur Amira and Tunku Aimi Athirah in this reading 4.3, this text is about the issue of evidence and cross examination. Evidence is the facts, signs or objects that make you believe something is true. Cross examination is for the purpose of exposing inconsistent and contradictions in the testimony of hostile witnessed. From this reading, it is concerned with the issue of evidence. It begins with the famous case of the kidnapping of the infant son of Charles Kindbergh and examines the evidence, wholly circumstantial, that led to the conviction of Bruno Hauptman. The writer told about murdering case and kidnapping case. The presentation gave the differences between kidnapping and murdering case. Kidnapping case is circumstantial evidence while murdering case is testimonial evidence. In all cases, the writer urges that a reader should maintain in critical stance towards everything that is read.For this presentation, the presenter present this topic good and also easy to understand. but, the weakness from this presentation is sometimes the presenter cannot give the correct answer to audience when audience give a question to them.