When first looking at these two articles, the most obvious thing is the way they are both organized. Both articles have a big bolded title with a smaller header explaining the main ideas of the story beneath. This makes sense because both articles are in magazines where they want to grab the reader's attention with a big, flashy title, and they give the subheadings to interest the reader in the topic that will be discussed. Other than that, the two articles’ organization is not very similar. In Gagne’s article, he accompanies the text with many pictures and descriptions. The very first page of the article has a picture of a man watching a child work happily on a laptop that takes up about 50 percent of the page. Below the picture is interesting, relevant information about who the people in the photo are. The purpose of this picture is to intrigue the reader with the people’s happy faces and to have them wonder more about why those faces seem to be so happy, leading them to read on and engage with the piece. It also influences the reader into thinking that
When first looking at these two articles, the most obvious thing is the way they are both organized. Both articles have a big bolded title with a smaller header explaining the main ideas of the story beneath. This makes sense because both articles are in magazines where they want to grab the reader's attention with a big, flashy title, and they give the subheadings to interest the reader in the topic that will be discussed. Other than that, the two articles’ organization is not very similar. In Gagne’s article, he accompanies the text with many pictures and descriptions. The very first page of the article has a picture of a man watching a child work happily on a laptop that takes up about 50 percent of the page. Below the picture is interesting, relevant information about who the people in the photo are. The purpose of this picture is to intrigue the reader with the people’s happy faces and to have them wonder more about why those faces seem to be so happy, leading them to read on and engage with the piece. It also influences the reader into thinking that