Example of Article Response Form (Assignment of Reading) By : Putri Amaliah

Article Response Form

Article Title    : Confidence vs Arrogance

Author            : Widya Niti Bhasa Foundation

Publisher        : Hello English Magazine

Date Published          : August 2010             Number of Pages: page 12

Genre (type of article): article in magazine

1. Why did you decide to read this article?

Ø Because this article is well established, that confidence and arrogance has many different each other. So, it can help me to know and understand the differences about that and this article can useful for me because I can find new knowledge about the differences between confidence and arrogance.

2. Were you glad that you decided to read it? Explain.

Ø Yes, I’m glad because this article to explore the different meaning and characteristics of confidence and arrogance. So, I can have a new knowledge when I read this article. And this article can help me to do assignment of extensive reading 2.

3. What did you like best about this article?

Ø I like the characteristics between confidence and arrogance in this article because the information very important to read and it can give me new knowledge.

4. What did you like least?

Ø  I like least the vocabularies in this article because it’s sometimes difficult to understand when I read.

5. Would you recommend this article to a friend? Explain.

Ø  Yes, because this article can help my friend to add their knowledge about the different characteristics of “confidence and arrogance”.

6. On a scale of 1-10, how difficult was this book for you?(1=easy, 10=difficult)why?

Ø  This scale in this article is 7 = difficult because when I read this article sometime the language and vocabularies difficult to understand on the meaning of the word. And this article has many unfamiliar words in every paragraph. For example: “boastful”, “humble”, ”strut”, “manifestations” etc.

Summary       :

This article to explore the different meaning and characteristics of confidence and arrogance. Sometime. Arrogant people become boastful in certain situation when they feel threatened. It is because they are struggling to maintain the confidence they have acquired. But, people with a healthy level of self confidence are positive and open. The naturally attract other positive people and gain their respect readily.

This article show that if you are easily anxious, unsure of yourself, argumentative, and unwilling to consider another person’s point of view, so you are learning towards arrogance. But, if you are calm within yourself, comfortable with who you are and willing to freely discuss opposing ideas without being judgmental, congratulations, so you are confident individual.

Below is a list of differences and similarities between these two characteristic:

1. Confidence vs arrogance both involve in one’s abilities. It means that when a person who is confident understands they have certain areas of strength. But, when a person who is arrogant also believes that have certain areas of strength, it is of similarities between these two characteristic