Reflection

As a blogger, it is my responsibility to make my readers understand and show their interests towards my writing and the content of my blog. Blogging is not about merely typing and posting information. A good blog, need to have a good writing, discussion about relevant issues, creativity, distinctively and also enables the readers to communicate and interact with each other with hyperlinks and chatter box provided.

A good writing in a blog is essential. In writing blog, appropriate argument and theory need to be clearly stated to enhance the readability and understand of the readers. According to Rothman (2009), good writing presents an analysis of argument/theory in a form utilizing empirical evidence and/or logical reasoning in an attempt to better understanding. In addition, referring to Tsan (2007) in “Qualities of a good blogger”, a good blogger needs to continue learning, exploring and supplies ideas to the readers. Not only a good writing is required, a well structured and designed blog is needed to enhance the appearance. As mentioned in Reep (2006), a good document design guides readers through the texts by directing attention to individual topic and enhance readers ability to remember those sections. In this blog, heading, subheading, balance of white space and chart are used to enhance the appearance and understanding of the readers.

Further, blog is the combination of texts, images, videos, chatter box which interacting with each others. It is a form of multimodality which helps strengthen the message intended to be conveyed across to the audience (Walsh 2006). Citation and references are provided to acknowledge the author of original ideas. It is a way of ethical writing to avoid copyright infringements.

Referencing

Reep, DC 2006, ‘Document Design’, Technical Writing, Pearson/Longman, Chapter 6, pp. 133 – 172.

Rothman, S 2005, What Makes Good Scientific and Technical Writing?, viewed 5^th April 2009, http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/9447/error?cat=4.

Tsan, J, 2007 Qualities Of A Good Blogger. EzineArticles.com, viewed 14^th June 2009, http://ezinearticles.com/?Qualities-Of-A-Good-Blogger&id=823015.

Walsh, M 2006, ‘Textual shift’: Examining the reading process with print, visual, and multimodal texts,’ Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no.1, p.24-37.