Writing has always been easy for me, especially because I enjoy micro-blogging so much and enjoy the occasional essay write ups. However, I can firmly say that I have not applied any formal theories that I have learned recently and thought that if you can speak the language then you can write the language. Unfortunately, I was terribly mistaken. There are many concepts and theories that need to be understood because writing a document has many aspects to it consisting of far more than just words. Kress and Van Leeuwen (1998) mentions that there has to be considerations of social semiotics that help function a full system if communication such as the ideational metafunction, the interpersonal metafunction and the textual metafunction. Based on these aspects, the document designer will be able to create relevant, interactive and proper usage of text along with visuals. With all that has learned in the past few weeks, I now acquire the proper methods of blogging not only for academic purposes but for whatever material I may design. I now understand that a proper blogger would bear in mind the ethics of publishing; clearly convey a message using proper prose and graphics and apply relevant principles. It is also highly important to take a moment and understand what the audience is instead of writing what feels good to me. There has to be proper balance and consistency when it comes to design principles according to Reep (2006). I have truly learned a lot and am prepared now to produce documents that are well off and worthy.
References
Reep, DC 2006, Technical writing: document design, Pearson/Longman, New York.
Kress, G. & van Leeuwen, T 2006. Reading images. Chapter 1: The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication.
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