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Headings and subheadings are a visual representation of how information is organized, and tells the reader what is in each section.
Headings and subheadings are a visual representation of how information is organized, and tells the reader what is in each section.


=== [[Scanability]] ===
=== [[Scan-ability]] ===
Online readers are not very patient. A website has approximately three seconds to download properly and engage the viewer. <ref> Carroll, Brian. Writing for digital media. Routledge, 2010.</ref> Your headline is the first impression you make on a reader. Without a captivating header and sub header that will turn a browser into a reader, the rest of the content might be irrelevant.<ref>"Page Titles, Headlines, and Subheaders, OH MY!" Writing Spaces. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Apr. 2013. <http://writingspaces.org/wwsg/page-titles-headlines-subheaders>.</ref> Sub-headers will make blog posts more readable. They allow readers to get a quick idea on what subjects you’re tackling and allow them to skip to the topics the readers are interested in.
Online readers are not very patient. A website has approximately three seconds to download properly and engage the viewer. <ref> Carroll, Brian. Writing for digital media. Routledge, 2010.</ref> Your headline is the first impression you make on a reader. Without a captivating header and sub header that will turn a browser into a reader, the rest of the content might be irrelevant.<ref>"Page Titles, Headlines, and Subheaders, OH MY!" Writing Spaces. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Apr. 2013. <http://writingspaces.org/wwsg/page-titles-headlines-subheaders>.</ref> Sub-headers will make blog posts more readable. They allow readers to get a quick idea on what subjects you’re tackling and allow them to skip to the topics the readers are interested in.


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