Reflection

Throughout my time in writing this blog, I have learnt a tremendous amount of things, however there are a few things which I now have a much better understanding of in comparison to all the other things that I learnt. Firstly would be the theories and fundamentals in publication and design which is to include pictures and words to make reading and comprehension easier (Kress and Leeuwen 1998). Thus, while creating each blog posting, I have included at least one picture to accompany each posting because when pictures and texts are able to work together, communication has always been easier (Schriver 1997). Additionally, I have also learnt the importance of using framing and white spaces in multimodal texts to make it clear to readers what items are meant to be read as a whole or separately (Kress and Leeuwen 1998).

Moreover, I have also had the opportunity to learn how aesthetics are used in web designing and have learnt about plagiarism in journalism and how to avoid it. As a blogger myself, I have provided links to the original sources as well as included citations wherever needed to avoid the act of plagiarising. Blogging is not just about the design and layout, content and context is also an important element to ensure the viewer is not overwhelmed while interacting and navigating with the web page. Lastly, I am truly glad that I took up this course as I now have the foundation and am aware of matters relating to publication and design, which is something I would not have had the opportunity to learn as a business student.

Reference

Kress, G & van Leeuwen, T 1998, 'Front pages: The critical analysis of newspaper layout'.

Schriver, A 2003, 'Dynamics in document design : creating texts for readers', The Interplay of Words and Pictures'.