Reflections: As I look back

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Looking back on this semester, it has been a blessing learning Issues in Publication and Design. I am now competent to appreciate and analyze a document, be it a static or multimodal text (Walsh 2006).

In Malaysia, it is very important to be ethnically aware as readers come from diverse racial and cultural background that will definitely influence their way of reading a certain document (Walsh, 2006).

In regards to document design, I found that less is indeed more. A simple, aerodynamic and tidy blog interface will ensure that readers can read without being distracted. Main points have to be salient (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006) to take hold of reader’s attention and visual aid should be interpreted to aid with reader’s understanding (Shriver, 1997).

Throughout this duration of learning new skills from my IPD course, I am now equipped with the basic know-how of document design, and I can only look forward to learning more in the coming semesters.

With that said, FAREWELL!

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THANK YOU FOR READING! =)

References

Kress, G & van Leeuwen, T 1998, ‘Front page: (the critical) analysis of newspaper layout’, Approaches to Media Discourse, Blackwell, Oxford.

Schriver, KA 1997, Dynamics in document design: creating text for readers, Wiley Computer Publisher, New York.

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.