(source:viaterra.net)Blogging is an activity that I have been doing on and off since 4 years ago. I used to blog in Xanga, however I stopped because I lose interest in it. I always think blogging is a complete waste of time and somehow revealing our personal life to the world.
However, blogging for this subject is different compared to regular basis of blogging. Though very time consuming, but it made me learn more thoroughly about the characteristics of weblogging and issues of publication design. Apart from that, I learn about the importance of including audience, purpose, and context in creating a good document design.
A few issues that I have done have already been discussing about the combination of pictures and texts in a document design. Hence, according to Schriver (2006) explains that prose and graphics are integrated as a part of the body text in order to help users represent the content.
Apart from that, copyright infringement is also an issue to weblogging and document design. People tend to copy materials from others without citing them. Hence, Walker (1997) implies that in addition to citing the source of texts, any graphics, audio or video files included in a student's work should include a proper citation. I have learnt to cite every single quote that I have found from articles or websites. In fact, I have even cited all the pictures that I have uploaded in all my postings to avoid any copyright issue.
To conclude this discussion, I believe that I have induced a lot from this assignment. Learning how to manage my time to look for researches for each issue and learning to manage a blogging system is not an easy task. With that, as this assignment completes with my final post, which is the Reflection of what I have done, I know that in future, blogging will most probably to be back as my regular basis.
Thus, in order to end this blog proudly, I would like to express my gratitude to everyone who has the opportunity to read this blog. Thank you very much!
References:
- Schriver, KA 1997, 'The Interplay of Words and Pictures', Dynamics in Document Design: Creating texts for readers, Chapter 6, pp.361-441
- Walker, J.R 1997, 'Intellectual Property Rights and Fair Used', viewed 15 June 2009
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