
Nuwe hersiene Afrikaanse tesourus verskyn
Die nuwe hersiene uitgawe van Tesourus van Afrikaans het verskyn en is landwyd beskikbaar. Soek jy daardie nommerpaswoord, die een wat...

New book on professional communication
Communicate as a Professional, edited by Carel Jansen, Leon de Stadler and Aline Douma, was published recently byAmsterdam University...
Afrikaans in ander hande
Op 12 April 2018 het ek 65 geword. 'n Besondere viering sal mense sê, 'n dag waarop jy sekerlik een of ander groot partytjie sal hou waar...

The cost of bad communication design
Communication is everything - believe me - and bad communication design (specifically bad document design) wíll cost you, and cost you in...

The language debate at Stellenbosch: What students are telling us
A general intro: Apart from my blog series on document design, I will also comment on issues related to language planning in higher...

Bad document design can hurt your image
So often the bad document design of institutions and companies also reflect badly on their image. The important principle here is that...

The role of the publisher in the quality of the document
In this article (written in Afrikaans) I argue for the role of the publisher in ensuring the quality of communication. In the article I...

Remember: the text is also a graphic
So often when we talk about document design, we discuss the interaction between text and graphics as if these two elements are different...

Twitter-happy?
Then you might be putting yourself at risk "twitter ... 1. to utter the successive chirping notes of a bird, make a bird's continuing...

The reader is your client!
Knowing how to focus on your reader - that's the thing! We so often forget when writing that we are writing TO someone! There is...