Reflection

After blogging about the past few entries, I felt that as a blogger we have to know the social semiotics function before we can start posting. Social semiotics is defined as the way people make meaning on a certain matter (Schirato and Yell 2000). So as a blogger, I must always be aware on the type of words that I am going to use in my blogposts before posting it or it will cause some misunderstanding.

A blogger must also have a blog with a design that is user-friendly and simple so that the readers will not have trouble navigating around the blog (Reep 2006). Using that statement from Reep, I designed my blog to be simple with just a few colours so that it does not confuse the readers and I have included some labels in the sidebar for easy navigation. I also learnt that a blogger has to be knowledgeable about the culture that they are in so that they do not get in trouble for using the wrong terms (Schriver 1997).

References

• Reep, D 2006, ‘Document Design,’ Technical Writing, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 133-172, New York.
• Schriver, K 1997, ‘The interplay of words and pictures,’ in Dynamics in document design: creating texts for readers, Wiley Computer Pub, New York, ch. 6, pp. 361-441. 
• Schirato, T and Yell, S 2000, Communication and culture: An Introduction, 2^nd edn, viewed on 11 June 2011, http://books.google.com.my/books?id=x0eCjzs0bhwC&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=schirato+and+yell+on+context&source=bl&ots=1HAIVUbhv0&sig=tLFOc7uQ5CAKC3ekRLw6XhNVYWA&hl=en&ei=_IjzTfGgII3QrQes0dDzBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false .