Reflection

This blog had brought up different types of issues in the field of publication and design. While writing and designing this blog, I had come across with several theoretical theories. As Walsh (2006) stated, readers tend to use different senses to interpret multimodal texts. Multimodal texts involve more visual images which stress on the arrangement on colours, frames, hyperlinks, medium and menu board (Walsh, 2006). While designing this blog, I have to be concerned about the arrangement of each element and texts. Hyperlinks for further information should also be considered to fulfill readers who want to know further information.

As a blogger, I think that attribution plays an important role. Lack of acknowledgement of others’ work can be seen as a form of plagiarism (Digikev, n.d.). Providing sufficient credits is important to avoid plagiarism online. Besides that, appropriate usage of words is also important. As blogs can be viewed globally, appropriate usage of words should be applied to respect other cultural values and norms.

Blogging is not just about the design and layout, content and context is also an important element. I hope that this blog had achieved its purpose in issuing publication and design’s issues.

References

1. Digikev n.d., Blog etiquette, viewed on 14/11/2010, retrieved from http://digikev.co.uk/articles/blog-etiquette/

2. 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.