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FIGURE 7.2Effective Use of Alignment
Source: National Institutes of Health, 2013a: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/ElectronicReceipt/faq_full.htm#application.

This panel from an FAQ section of a website uses alignment to help organize the information.

The writer is using three levels of importance, each signaled by a different alignment.

Writers often use more than one technique at a time to help organize information. In this case, text size and color also indicate levels of importance.