Eric: 3. The article discusses lots of bells and whistles to signify meaning. Different colors, boldface, fonts, sizes, CAPITALIZATION, etc. Obviously the usage and purpose of these modifying agents is situational, but is there a certain standard or mantra that we could follow that maximizes informational transfer in speediest, most accurate, most efficient manner? If so, what standards can we employ? Is less sometimes more, or should we always use lots and lots of "bells and whistles" to aid the reader?
I believe there already is a standard or mantra applied to maximizing accuracy and efficiency. In all of our term papers and essays we have to write for classes their is a set font and font size that we have to use and we are not aloud to use anything else. I do believe that it is situational as to if they should standardize type and text or not. Obviously some more formal written works will need standardization to keep the focus on the text, but other more creative works should be able to have whatever type and text in order to keep the writers own individual creativity
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