What Makes a Magazine?
Examine your choice of magazine to determine its topic, purpose, audience, and structure. What makes a magazine a magazine? Complete a magazine analysis using the file posted to the right.
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Steps to Creating Your Magazine
Conception/Planning
1. Select a focus/theme/topic for your magazine.
2. Express the purpose of your magazine idea.
3. Describe your "reader". Who is he/she? [gender, age, interest, - demographics.
4. Create a three/four- person collaboration/editorial team to consult throughout the process.
1. Select a focus/theme/topic for your magazine.
2. Express the purpose of your magazine idea.
3. Describe your "reader". Who is he/she? [gender, age, interest, - demographics.
4. Create a three/four- person collaboration/editorial team to consult throughout the process.
Publication Proposal | |
File Size: | 34 kb |
File Type: | doc |
Proposed Magazine Topics / Editorial Boards
Lauren - Health (Rylee & Madison E.)
Mason - Current TV & Movies (Chase & Michael) Kiersten - World Cultures (Autumn & Blake) Brittney - Science (Lauren & Arterus) Sydni - Local Sports (Mariah, Madison W, & Arterus) Emerson - Psychology Madison E. - Farming / Sustainability (Rylee & Lauren) Matt - Soccer Rylee - Travel (Lauren & Madison E) Blake - |
Michael - Music (Chase & Mason)
Randi - High School (Shane & Sydney) Sydney - Music (Randi & Shane) Jon - Autumn - Health (Kiersten & Blake) Chase - Sports (Mason & Michael) Shane - Fitness (Randi, Sydney) Mariah - Home Decor (Sydni, Arterus, Madison W) Madison W. - Teen Advice (Sydni, Arterus, Mariah) Arterus - Current Events - (Sydni, Mariah, Madison W) |
Content/Writing
5. Articles - 7 total
5. Articles - 7 total
- Expository Writing [Feature Articles] - purpose to explain [choose 3]
- informational/topical
- cause/effect
- comparison/contrast
- process (how-to)
- definition - what is a ---
- Persuasive - purpose to convince [choose 1]
- editorial or pro/con
- review [publication, media, product]
- Descriptive - purpose to describe [choose 1]
- 1st person experience
- description
- Additional Types of Writing [choose 1]
- Interview
- Photo Essay
- Poetry
- Short Story
- Infographic
- Your own idea
- Plus one additional type of your choice
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Images
- Advertisements
- Letters to the Editor
Article Brainstorming | |
File Size: | 50 kb |
File Type: | doc |