Exercise 7j

- In terms of layout and design Cassidy Trom was not going for the typical boring research paper that you would expect in an english class.  Instead this paper brings in large titles, pictures, captions, and enlarged quotes to clearly show her main topic.  It is very unlikely that you would get bored when reading this paper because even though there are words surrounding everything, the pictures help explain what is being talked about.  Her layout seems like it is more for a newspaper then an english class.  This style of writing is probably the biggest help when it comes to the emphasizing part.  If you were to write a typical paper with no pictures or large headlines, then it would be harder to show what your emphasis is, but with the capability of using pictures, the main points are obvious.  

- This layout will affect how the audience reads it because they will read what is most interesting first.  Like for example the title is large and bolded, obviously I am going to take the time to read the title because it must be important if bolded.  Normally when reading a regular research paper I don't pay as much attention to the title because it is just like everything else.  The pictures will be looked at as soon as you flip to the next page, which might not be a bad thing because it gives a some what preview of what you are about to read about.  I find the large quotes interesting because it shows you that the writer feels like this is important and that we should comprehend it and understand how it works in with the paper.  The way the paper is set up also breaks up the reading so it is not all one long paper.  This may be beneficial because instead of getting bored from what you are reading, the reader may actually enjoy reading what the paper is about.

- If the fancy stuff was removed, the paper would just turn into an ordinary, boring research paper.  You would have to have some other way to make your paper stand out from everyone else's.  Without the emphasis of all the stuff added, this paper would not be as exciting and wouldn't be as attention grabbing as it was before.  The content of the paper wouldn't change at all, and it would still be a great paper, it's just the point would not be proven as easily as it would have with the pictures and bolded sections.