The phrase "capture the reader's attention" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing writing techniques or strategies aimed at engaging an audience.
Example: "To write a compelling introduction, it's essential to capture the reader's attention right from the start."
Alternatives: "engage the reader" or "grasp the reader's interest."
Magazine covers are like highway billboards: you have only a few seconds to capture the reader's attention.
Andrew, or Fred, will capture the reader's attention straight away and has mentioned all of the interesting facts of his life and missing out the unessential items.
One, certainly, is trying to capture the reader's attention, or, in other words, to find a subject of sufficient dignity and importance and universality to write a great novel about it.
Moreover, the use of equal-status image and text serves to capture the reader's attention, arouse their interest and ensure their involvement (Martinec 2013).
For nearly six decades, Down East has been the authority on Maine, and today continues to capture the reader's attention with an insider look at contemporary life in Maine.
This will capture the reader's attention more effectively.
The April 1998 cover of Life captures the reader's attention: "WERE YOU BORN THAT WAY? Personality, temperament, even life choices.
They are businesses and one way to increase visibility (and readership) is to startle the public with eye-catching headlines that may exaggerate the issue but captures the reader's attention.
After you've captured the reader's attention with the handle, clearly but briefly summarize your most important and relevant qualifications. Anything less than a sharp focus and your readers will quickly lose interest and move on to the next application.
Many chapters begin with a clinical case history, which captures the reader's attention and transports him or her into the mindset of a clinician.
Plomer's Spectator review described the book as "another of [Waugh's] cultivated pearls", economically written, holding the reader's attention throughout and capturing with precision the moods and rhythms of life as it was lived in certain quarters of society.
