How to Make an Essay Interesting

After reading the Media/Design chapter in Nortan Field Guide I began to think about the many newpaper stories and essays I have read throughout my life. Some have been particularly hard to get through, and I think that's because nothing about them ever popped out to get my attention. Scholarly essays are usually written in the standard Times New Roman font with a 1o pt font. A boring, small font tends to make me zone out while I'm reading, but the large type of newspaper headlines always get my attention. I especially love when the stories include graphs and pictures which pull me toward the story. Although some fonts and pictures aren't appropriate for certain articles, I try to get those attention grabbers in my essays as often as possible.