Reflections and comments

This weblog, if you recall, was created for the purpose of doing an assignment for a subject called Issues in Publication and Design. Writing a blog is of course not the most typical of assignments, but it does highlight the need and help hone my skill of knowing a variety of writing styles as well as knowing the design issues prevalent when writing for different forms of media.

Through the course of going through various theories and issues that have popped up, I realise that I almost always try to understand things from the point of the audience, be it document design, writing conventions or anything else really. I tend to side and favour the audience’s perspective, and am of the mind that no matter how great a document may be, if the audience does not understand it, it is ultimately a futile endeavour.

Knowledge of audience goes hand in hand with knowledge of the medium and how to write properly for the audience. With all three in mind, I hope to be able to produce documents of much higher quality in the near future.

For now though, I wish to end my contributions to Signall with this post. I promised in my first post that this will be a most interesting and meaningful ride. I hope I have fulfilled that by being both educational and at the same time entertaining. This has been the most time consuming blog I have ever written in, and has given me insight as to what I personally consider should be a standard for all bloggers.

I believe all bloggers should blog with a specified purpose and audience in mind, and write and design accordingly. Of course, other issues come to mind too, such as not getting on the bad side of the law, not letting errors pass by, maintaining online writing and designing conventions, they all play part and parcel to how good a blog can be. It is just that purpose and audience should be the frontmost concern for all bloggers, and everything should be written and designed with the two in mind.

With that said, it is time to properly wrap things up.

Signing out.