Reflection

Issues in publication is quite hard for me before I start learning it. Nevertheless, I have acquired many skills and theories on designing features for example a blogger can use some tables and pictures to present the ideas and this will enhance the understanding of readers. According to Schriver (1997), visual examples are playing crucial role in presenting or publishing.

Besides that, I have also learnt some document design from Reep(2006). She gave me a good concept on designing my blog and my document, for instance the color and proportion balancing.

Apart from these design methods and principles, I have learnt some codes of ethics while I was doing the research. Different countries have different codes of ethics for the journalists to practice. For example, one of the code of ethics from Al Jazeera(2010) is welcome fair and honest media competition but National Union of Journalists Malaysia(NUJM) (n.d) does not have the code of ethics.

All these code of ethics are guide for journalism to publish news articles and pictures. I have learnt how to write ethically and avoid from copyrighted, plagiarism, discrimination and invasion of privacy.

References:

AL JAZEERA 2010, Code of Ethics, viewed 13rd November 2011, .

National Union of Journalists Malaysia n.d., NUJ Code Of Ethics, viewed 13rd November 2011, <http://www.nujm.org/aboutus/body.htm#2>.

Reep D 2006, ‘Principles of document design’, in Technical writing, 6th edn, Pearson Edu, Inc., New York.

Schriver, KA 1997, Dynamics in document design, Wiley Computer Pub, New York.