Reflection

Finally, it comes to an end for this subject, Issues in Publication and Design. Throughout this subject, I came across many theories about document designs and also writing. I learned about how theories of composition such as salience and framing, as stressed by Kress and van Leeuwen (2009), play an important role in attracting readers' attention. Besides that, I learned about the importance of white space between texts. Reep (2006) mentioned that white space smooth readers' eyes and directs them to important information in documents with complicated data and lots of details. Thus, I applied this theory into my posts by clearly written out the headings and added extra space between paragraphs to increase readability.


In addition, I also noted on how colour enhance a document design's usability. Reep (2006) gave out some strategies for colour to enhance usability of a document design. I limit the number of colour used in this blog as Reep (2006) explained readability will be reduced if too much colour are used. In doing all this posting, I realized the importance of being careful in what I wanted to write in my posts. I mentioned about blogging etiquette in my previous post. We must never steal other people's contents and always return credits to when we are using other people's materials (Tan, 2007). Therefore, I cited works by other people whenever I mentioned them in my blog posts, including this post. Lastly, I hope that this blogs are able to help media students and also those involved in media publishing.

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References

Kress, G. and van Leeuwen, T. 2006, 'Reading images, Chapter 6: The meaning of composition', 2nd ed., Routledge, London.

Reep, D.C 2006, 'Document design', in Technical Writing, 6th ed., Pearson/Longman, New York, pp.133-172.

Tan, Z.M 2007, 'Blogging etiquette: for bloggers and readers', suite101, viewed 12 November 2010, from <http://www.suite101.com/content/blogging-etiquette-a22222>