Attention Seeker

Different people tend to gravitate towards certain articles, and that is for a specific reason. Have you thought about what catches your attention? How about entertainment articles or something little bit more in dept and scientific? Sometimes reading different styles of writing, can teach you about the same thing but in different ways.

Writers will use key words, pictures, and colors all in a specific and organized way to grab their readers focus and to keep them engaged in their reading. Although styles can be different and appeal to certain audience, they can all be tailored to teach the same thing.

Lila Hogler uses her explanation for camouflage in a biology reading. She uses key words, pictures, and examples to appeal to an audience like students.

Hogler used many biographic terms to explain that biomimicry is the imitation of life so that humans can solve problems. She uses words like nature and organism to set a tone to the reader. Without these key terms and explanations, it would be hard to pin-point who exactly the audience would be. She makes it very clear that this article may be tailored to students in a biology class.

Another example how Hoglers way to further show what mimicry is, are by the pictures she uses as an example. All pictures shown, are side by side comparisons of how we as humans use animals or nature to help is with problems like using the colors of an orca to create a slimming silhouette for women who would like to appear smaller.

Her example of biomimmicry further includes a side by side example of how we as humans used zebras stripes to make our shiprs appear smaller in World World 1. This method was called Razzle Dazzle and it Hogler fit this example perfectly further explaining the way us humans use nature to fix human issues.

Do you see how Hogler used her platform to relate to students who are interested in Biology? What if I told you there was a way to explain camouflage in another way that might interest you more.

In the second article, Kyle Gibson writes an article on camouflage, but this time it is written as a history lesson. Although you can tell this article targeting an audience more interested in history, throughout the reading Gibson also uses “razzle dazzle” as an example. Sound familiar?

The first thing a reader might notice in this reading are the pictures of ships. You can see that the pictures are black and white or are of vintage quality. That right there should be the first indicator that this reading will surround ships from a long time ago.

Like Hogler, Gibson uses specific phrases tailored to history. “World World !, military, and dates like 1917 and 1918. Gibson uses these phrases throughout the reading while explaining how using the stripes that zebras and giraffes have to confuse enemies so that they could not tell how big their ships were. This is the exact example used in Hoglers article explaining bio-mimicry but instead of focusing more on the zebras like in the biology reading, this one focused more on the ships which tailored that more to history.

Although Gibson and Hoglers examples of camouflage are the same, the discipline in reading differ in that the use of vocabulary is different. One uses words of science and the other of history. Making the audience intended for each article different. One could be read in biology, and the other in history but both classes can come out with the same understanding of camoflauge.

This is not the only way the further explain camouflage, in case you thought those two papers were boring, or you needed a laugh. maybe this entertainment article could change your mind on the use of camouflage.

Lastly in the final article, this writer explains the use of bio-mimicry and camouflage to help fashion students design clothes, or pick out clothes to flatter areas of the body.

Like previous articles, you can pin-point the kind of audience the writer would like to target by colors and pictures. Right off the bat, you see designer sketches of women in strips and the huge title at the top says “Fashion News”. .

In this discipline, the writers goal was to teach design students or shoppers that strips can make you appear smaller or bigger depending on what you are trying to achieve. She backs this up, by using Razzle Dazzle, similar to the previous articles of ships fooling their enemy, buy shading certain parts of the body similar to an orca.

This article could also be found in a magazine to entertain. The writer sets the tone as a relaxing and entertaining article. She makes silly jokes to keep the readers interested and bright colors as well to hold the readers attention.

All three writers had wrote in different ways to connect with their audiences. If you wanted to learn about camouflage, which article are you most likely to gravitate towards? Does biology and nature interest you, maybe going back in time and learning through wars and conflict is more stimulating to your mind. If you need colors, drawings, and jokes maybe you’d shift your attention towards the fashion article. All in all, we can agree that using different disciplines in writing can impact a reader in many ways.