Reflection

After a long and windy 3 months of posting up blogs, I have decided that reflect back on the issues and things I encountered in the Issues in Publication and Design subject. I would like to say that it was rather shocking to find out the many theories and principles applied in a document. Document design concepts as proposed by Reep (2006) explained to me how both visuals and text must complement each other in order to produce high salience materials. Besides that, the effectiveness of writing as described by Putnis and Petelin (1996) too gave me lots to think about as I didn't know it was in the document's context and readership.

What's more, the issues mentioned in my blog gave me a different perspective on them. Knowing how to self censor has truly saved me from trouble and embarrassment. Regardless using either social sites or blogs, I still would reconsider words I used. Additionally, I have also learnt how to treat sensitive issues like religion and racism better as this subject has been repeated many times in my course. Lastly, I’m happy that this subject has taught me many things that would assist me in my communication course and in the future when I encounter issues that concern publication and design

Reference

Putnis P & Petelin R 1996, ‘Writing to communicate’, in Professional communication, Prentice Hall, Sydney.

Reep D 2006, ‘Principles of document design’, in Technical writing, 6th edn, Pearson Edu, Inc., New York.