Blog Topic 6: Professionalism!

With the ability to use spell check and similar tools, it is without any hesitation I say that it is just outright laziness and unprofessional to have spelling mistakes or grammatical errors in a piece of writing in relation to public relations. Professionalism is extremely important in regards to being a public relations practitioner. It’s about trust and presentation, leading to professionalism. Without excellent presentation skills there is little way of showing that one is professional. Correct grammar and spelling is a clear indicator of proper presentation skills. It indicates that the writer is interested and has clear understanding of the English language (Lawson 2014). Having appropriate headings and a format that is easy to read that offers little confusion, is some of the ways to show how I used presentation skills to reflect professionalism in my blog. Appropriate style of texts can be seen as more professional; however, it does not mean other styles are not to be used. It simply means that the document may be less formal (Lawson 2014). Being a blog it would be seen as a less formal document so the style of text would not exactly change the whole professional look. The use of different colours is seen as not necessary when writing a document (Lawson 2014). Blogs will typically use colours for effect in writing; however, to maintain a full professional look in my blog I used white as the text colour to contrast with the dark background. With the use of appropriate colours, headings and no grammatical or spelling errors I have demonstrated presentation skills to reflect professionalism in relation to public relations. 

Lawson, C 2014, Module 6 The public relations campaign: logistics, COMM11110 Introduction to Public Relations study guide, CQUniversity, viewed 6 May 2014, http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/course/view.php?name=COMM11110_2141