Reflection

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This course has provided many insights on the issues of publication and design.

As a blogger, I have learnt that it is important for the blog to be well-designed to engage the attention of the audience. The layout must be well designed in order to ease the audiences’ reading paths (Kress and Van Leeuwen 1998). This will encourage them to keep coming back for more postings. It is important to understand that readers want prose that are well-written and designed appropriately to accommodate reading on a screen (Shriver 1997). Blogs should include typographic and spatial cues that are comprehensible. Audiences would then be able to perceive and organize their thoughts based on the messages shown on the document (Shriver 1997). The blog must not be too cluttered with words and headings should be clear to ease reading. This same principle applies with designing a print document.

References

Kress, G and Van Leeuwen, T 1998, ‘Front pages: the critical analysis of newspaper layout’, Blackwell, Oxford,pp. 287

Schriver, KA 1997, ‘The interplay of words and pictures’, Dynamics in document design: creating texts for readers, Wiley Computer Pub., New York.