REFLECTION FOR WEEK 9

On the ninth week of Writing for Multimedia and the Web class, I was beginning my homepage with my pair. We were finding an interesting topic to advertise in our homepage. We selected several topics and evaluated them. To make our readers interested, we wanted to do a advertisement which can make them enthusiastic to look at our advertisement. Our lecturer briefed us on the homepage. By listening to my lecturer’s explanation, I managed to hold a stronger grip of understanding about this assignment. I realized that this assignment is interesting as it requires creativeness and I also begin to learn how to advertise things. I now knew how to advertise things using the website called Wix.  

  Advertising skills is an important skill and by doing this assignment, I began to acquire this beneficial skill. As this is skill that can not just be improved through theories, I had to try many new things and then only I learned about them. It was knowledgeable learning new things. On the other hand, we all showed our lecturer our digital storytelling storyboard progress. We explained what our story is about and our lecturer advised and monitored us accordingly. Our lecturer saw our script and told us how to improvise it. We acquired the changes that need to be made on our story and then we adjusted and changed certain parts at our digital storytelling.

  In addition, we also listened to lecture. The topic of our lecture for this week was Important Styles for Informative Websites. I learned about the manuals of style for academic, technical and scientific writing. I also increased my understanding on what is front matter, body and also back matter. Besides that, I also managed to enhance my understanding on the technical, academic and scientific style. I understand that scholarly and scientific journal writers employ specific subject –and-audience- driven techniques. I also learned more about jargon. 

  Moreover, I also managed to gain knowledge about the symbols and equations. I also now knew that we must proofread all symbols and technical terms for errors. I also learned the usage of words, phrases and entire passages in other languages. Last but not least, I learned about constructing online help files and manuals. Help files and manuals are often created as a separate small programs that could be accessed from toolbars. I now knew that online manuals and help files are created for several purposes such as product ownership, use and care. They are also created for policies and procedures. 

  We should also always provide accurate hyperlinks as an index with wrong page number does not have any function and will not be beneficial for the users. I also learned that we should use user-friendly design. Visitors should not be given too much work. I managed to earn the knowledge about the guidelines when working as a writer. For example, we should always welcome visitors to the site and maintain a respectful tone. We should also keep distractions to the minimum.