Reflection - Understanding What I have learned

These postings and analysis of articles have aided me to have a better understanding towards the importance of communicating a message, whether it is via print, video, or pictures. I have better understanding of how the combination of visual and texts can provide a clearer picture as compared to just print alone (Shriver 1997). I have also learned that this combination of visual and text is also a ‘mode’ of communicating text known as multimodal text (Walsh 2006). It has also helped me see the changes and developments that have been made towards the combination of visual and text; how text are now no longer as dominant as compared to the visuals (Kress & Van Leeuwen 1998). Having understood this, it is clearer to see why this integration with visual and text has been more prominent in the recent years and how much emphasis it has been given via the improvement of technology.

References

Kress, G & Van Leeuwen, T 1998, ‘Front pages: (the critical) analysis of newspaper layout,’ Approaches to media discourse, Blackwell, Oxford

Schriver, KA 1997, Chp 6: The interplay of words and pictures, Dynamics in document design:creating texts for readers, Wiley Computer Publishing, New York

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