Reflections

After completing all my posts for this blog, I completely learnt many new things regarding the power of new new media also better understanding about responsibility and ethics are crucial for the modern blogger.

Such as the current phenomenon and benefits of blogging to the community, different types of blogs, principles and techniques for good document design as well as media issues relating to blogging.

Throughout the assignment progress, I have personally familiar and understood with are Kress and van Leeuwen's theory of the meanings of composition, multimodal texts and semiotic landscape. There are also several theories relating to publication and design which helping me to understand the concepts and principles to be a good document designer.

Reep (2006) states that design for print should follow some principles, but online media, together with various multimodal interactions between different media needs special principles as underlined by Walsh and Nielsen.

Some important notes that really attract me is that what Putnis & Petelin (1994,p.241) outlined visuals are very important for a good document designer or web user. Delivering good content to audience and also respect other bloggers or web users.

On a final note, the blogging activity was an interesting experience and I will continue blogging with more important facts relating to media studies.

*Hugs*

References

Nielsen, J 1999, Differences Between Print Design and Web Design, Alertbox, viewed 14 June 2010,
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990124.html

Putnis, P. & Petelin, R. 1996, 'Writing to communicate', in Professional communication:principles and applications, Prentice Hall, Sydney, pp.223-263.

Reep, DC 2006, Technical writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings, 6th edn, Pearson Education,USA.

Walsh, M 2006, ' The textual shift': Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts', Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol.29, no.1, pp.24-37.