REFLECTION OF THE PROCESS

While I’m not new to the concept of blogging, often on the receiving end - regularly visiting fashion and news blogs, blogging is a task I’ve never completed myself, until now. Being the one to post to a blog has widened my eyes to the blogging community. I have a new appreciation for the time, effort and research bloggers conduct in order to produce accurate, attractive, appealing and readable blogs.

I gained many skills throughout this process, mainly with my style of writing. Through studying journalism, rigid, concise, extremely subjective and factual writing has been reiterated. This blogging process has taught me a great deal about relaxing my writing style and subtly including non-offensive opinion, in order to communicate and relate with my intended audience. As well as writing skills, my editing skills have improved immensely. Prior to applying my editing skills, my blog appeared dull, harsh and lacked visual appeal. Through the effective editing skills I have learnt throughout the course, I was able to add appropriate images, ensure the writing and fonts were consistent, readable and attractive and create what I believe to be an aesthetically pleasing final product.

I found this process extremely rewarding as not only do I now appreciate blogging, I was able to learn so much and refine a skill that will prove extremely pivotal throughout my working life. It is obvious that blogging, as well as other online mediums (news websites, magazines etc.) are the direction several firms, consultancies and companies are naturally taking. So, to have the ability to blog and work on an online platform, will allow me to excel.  While there are several positives aspects about blogging; they provide an effective, efficient way of communicating, and offer a wider point of view, I adamantly believe they need to exist harmoniously with traditional news outlets. There is a place for both but I do not feel blogging should replace newspapers and websites as peoples primary source of news. Ultimately, whether the author of the blog is a credible writer or not, blogs were designed to communicate individuals messages, not the wider spectrum of news, so they will always remain slightly bias and restricted with their content and opinions.