Exploring A Genre

The genre that I am writing is a journal. To be honest I did not put much thought into what type of font and color my paper should be written in. I began my paper with a heading that included my name, date, subject, and topic. I did this, because of habit. In high school I was taught to head my paper his way, so now it is just second nature. Then I created a title that was centered and in a large font compared to the rest of my paper. I did this, because I wanted the title to stand out, and catch the reader's attention. For the rest of my paper I wrote in font size 12 in roman numerial. I chose this font, because my journal is supposed to be scholarly and professional, as a result I used the most traditional font and size. I wanted my journal to look as standard and traditional as possible, so I also kept the margin size the same and I didn't change them as I was writing. Overall I choose these options for my journal, because my audience expects scholarly journals to be professional and scholarly. A majority of people that would read my journal are either scholars or people that are educated and wanted to know more about global warming.
My audience will more than likely view my journal from up close. My journal would probably be published in a magazine or newspaper, so my audience would have to pick up the magazine and look at the journal up close.
In my journal I did not use color. I used black ink on white paper, because I wanted my journal to look as professional as possible.
I think that there are many ways to redesign my journal. One idea that I had was that I could separate my paper lengthwise, and make my journal look more like an article. I was also thinking that I could add a couple of pictures to help illustrate and support my facts and arguments.