The process of creating and maintaining this blog has been a wonderful experience. It gives me a better understanding of the principles of document design as well as the issues related. First of all, when designing a document we ought to know that cultural context is important. As Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) states that the ‘the semiotic landscape’ as the meaning of document understood only by a given society.
Furthermore, combining various elements in creating an effective document is important for message to be delivered effectively (Bernhardt, 1986). Reep (2006) also suggests that both visual and text complement each other for effectively drawing reader’s attention. Hence, the principles of document design serve as an important knowledge for me to design a document in the future.
In addition, the blog also taught me the proper way of using other’s material when publishing information online. I hope that the blog serve its purposes in providing information that are useful to the readers.
Reference list
- Bernhardt, S 1986, Seeing the text, College Composition and Communication, vol.37, no.1,p.66-78, National Council of Teachers of English.
- Kress, G. & van Leeuwen, T. 2006. Reading images. Chapter 1: The semiotic landscape: language and visual communication, 2nd edn, Routledge, NY, USA
- Reep, D.C. 2006, ‘Chapter 4: Principles of Document Design,’ in Technical Writing, 6th ed., Pearson Edu, Inc., New York, p.173-190
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