Formatting helps you organize content and creates a basic text structure, including headers, lists, indentations, and bold/italics. You can format text while you’re writing or editing it.

The way a text is structured can affect the reader’s response. Learn how to investigate structure in non-fiction texts with BBC Bitesize KS3 English.

Nicola Ariasi, Lucia Mason, Uncovering the effect of text structure in learning from a science text: An eye-tracking study, Instructional Science, Vol. 39, No. 5 (September 2011), pp. 581-601 ...

Carol Sue Englert, Carol Chase Thomas, Sensitivity to Text Structure in Reading and Writing: A Comparison between Learning Disabled and Non-Learning Disabled Students, Learning Disability Quarterly, ...