EXAMPLE OF CRITICAL ANALYSIS (ELC501)

The Impact of Whatsapp Usage on Students Performance in Tertiary Institution

Social media is the new form of media makes the transfer of text, photos, audio, video, and information in general increasingly fluid among internet users. The result is an enormous amount of information that can be easily shared, searched, promoted, disputed, and created. 

In the first paragraph the author have state the history of Whatsapp and it function. The Whatsapp messenger was purposely created by Brian Acton and Jan Koum to make communication in this era are easier and faster by using internet compare to using the prepaid plan. The main purpose behind this application is to replace SMS with cross-platform mobile messenger that works on an internet data plan. But the author is forgetting that not all students are capable to purchase and internet plan for every month. This is because student are not person that are huge source of money and furthermore they all are does not work and they don’t have a money to make a purchase for internet plan every month. The basic need to install a Whatsapp app is the type of device or mobile phone. Currently Whatsapp only available for iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry. If the user does not have one of these types of mobile phone, they cannot install Whatsapp and use it. This type of mobile phone will incurred high expenditure among student in tertiary institution. 

In paragraph 3, the author have manage to highlight the good impact of Whatsapp among the student such as such as Whatsapp are good for student in order to enhancement of discussion and sharing information among the student and their lecture. It show that the Whatsapp also give a benefit to the student in order to make their study easier. They can use it as one of the medium in discussion among them by creating a group in Whatsapp. The student can participate in the discussion although they not in the same place. For an example, the discussion can make although outside the learning timetable. The second good impact of Whatsapp that author try to highlight is Whatsapp encourage learners to learn by anticipating needs, make collaborative learning efficient and effective and build a relationship that stimulates learner-to-learner for consistent and progressive learning. This statement is support by an expert opinion that is Yalcinalp and Gulbahar. The problem that we can see here is the author does not state who is Yalcinalp and Gulbahar. We can see that the support statement are very weak because the author not state in what field that the expert came from and it give lack of confidences to the reader. Many assumptions can be made by the reader about the expert if it not states the field that the expert studies. 

In paragraph 4 the author state that a research has been conduct to determine the advantages and disadvantages in tertiary education student in Ghana. This show there is some weaknesses during the research have been made. The research should be conducted in tertiary student in developed and developing state. This is because the technology trend is different from other country with other country. There should conduct it on state such as America, United Stated or Malaysia compare to the third world country that have lack in term of technology advancement. Maybe if the research conducts in other country maybe it will show other result.

In paragraph 5, the author has reveal the bad impact or effect using Whatsapp to the tertiary student such as existence of WhatsApp can bring a various negative effects to the student’s performance in education. Procrastination, lack of concentration, grammar and spelling error and takes the studies time are the main reason why WhatsApp become the destroyer towards student who never take time management and education progress seriously. Internet and technologies surely contains a lot of benefits if the channel in a right one. The supporting details that the author use to support his point was it would lead to lack of concentration during lectures and this includes with difficulty in balancing online activities and academic preparation that distracts students from completing their assignments and adhering to their private studies time table. Furthermore, the author supporting details was not strong as he conducted a research by having 500 questionnaire to five tertiary institution in order to have a strong support from what he said that takes students time because if they want to said about this statement it should make it more larger scale such as 2000 or more because maybe it give a different result and more strong support.

            As the conclusion, the author’s purpose was to inform about the impact of using WhatsApp among students in tertiary education. From the research that has been made in Ghana whereby the sample acquired around 50 students from five tertiary institutions, result gained showed the negative sides much more impact rather than positive one. He also stressed out that WhatsApp has been a necessary evil for the students in tertiary institutions in Ghana. The intended group that the author wants to tackle was a student in tertiary institution. Since the author would like to share the knowledge regarding on the impact of WhatsApp whether it leads to the positive or the negative sides and it is easy for the reader to make a comparison. In addition, the limited research has been made in Ghana and the scope more on students from five tertiary institutions.