Induction - Evaluation of Music Piracy article

My task for this assignment was to create a magazine article surrounding the topic of music piracy. I started this by researching the issue of music piracy and finding out more about the article I had to write. After I had written my article, I began researching other magazine articles and started to decide on which magazine I would like to write my magazine for. I eventually decided that the article I had written was best suited to the magazine ‘Vibe’ because I thought that my article would best relate to that target audience. I think that my strengths while researching are that I am good at getting and writing down the information that I need. However my weaknesses whilst researching may be that I am not good at actually finding the information that I need.

Whilst writing my article I also discovered many skills and weaknesses with Journalism. One of my strengths were that I think I was good at organising my points and information so that they made sense. However a weakness may have been that I did not get straight to the point and rambled on a little. These are things that I will work on improving for the future and make sure that my strengths also carry on and get better.

To create a proper magazine looking article, we used a software programme called Adobe InDesign. Throughout the use of InDesign I have developed and learned many different skills; one of these are that I learned how to make an article look professional and related to the genre that I am doing. However, I found out that one of my weaknesses whilst using InDesign were that I was no able to always make it look as professional as I may have wanted and I found that I was either not always able to fill up the whole page or that I struggled with fitting everything into the whole page. This meant that it sometimes looked incomplete or too cramped. However I think one thing that I did well whilst using the software was that I was able to make sure that the pictures were placed on the page well and they related to the article and didn't look odd amongst the words of where they were placed.

Audience feedback was useful to me when writing and designing my article because I was able to acknowledge my strengths and weaknesses and improve them. It also meant that I was able to find out if my article was lacking something or if it might not have been very aesthetically pleasing and I was able to then change that.

One target that I will set myself to help me improve in the future is that I will become better at identifying when something is wrong and fixing this promptly. Another target that I would like to set myself is being able to judge my own work and change it if it may not be that good. Another thing that I also need to work on is organising information clearly within my work and ensuring that everything is clear and easily understandable. One more target that I would like to set myself is being able to ask for help from peers when I think something is maybe mnot right or if I want to add a feature that I know which they may not.