Many have wondered or even noticed whether more attractive people are treated better than less attractive ones. I recently read two articles about whether this is true or not; it turns out that the statement is true most of the time. I read the article; Viren Swammi wrote on YouBeauty.com titled “Attractive People Get Preferential Treatment.” You beauty is a website that offers people beauty tips and general information. The other article I read was one that had done an copious amount of research. The article was a peer-reviewed academic article; the article was written by Angela M Griffen and Langlois H Judith the article was titled “Stereotypical directionality and attractiveness stereotypes: Is beauty good or is it bad?” The writing between the two writings is exceptionally different. The mass media article was much broader and addressed everyone as a whole, while the academic article was much more in-depth and primarily addressed other graduate students studying that study. Each article made its own claims in its own way. The way sources were used in the document was also different. Overall both articles were interesting, but one was more informative and direct than the other. Depending on what you're reading, you'll notice that the audience an author writes for varies from genre to genre. The academic article was aimed at an audience studying the same thing they were writing about; while the mass media article had gained a very general audience. It was easy to highlight the differences between the two articles because the topic is widely discussed in the mass media, in a language that everyone will know and not just with the words that psychology doctors know. The article “Do Att…… middle of paper……difference between a mass media article and an academic article there are many differences. The main thing that drives most of these differences is that the value of the topic is different. Mass media focuses more on opinions and personal experience; meaning that the value of the mass media is that they were trying to show people that looks really matter. The authors based their facts on points that proved that people are treated better if they are attractive. But the academic article was based on facts and actual ongoing research; the value of the academic article was to try to decide whether the idea that attractive people are treated better is true or not. The authors wrote paragraphs about why they thought attractiveness was positive and why it was negative. Overall the academic world was more complete than the mass media.