research. The Magazine Analysis (rev. 12/2009) ASSIGNMENT: To write an ANALYSIS of a currently published magazine. Through careful observation‚ form a SPECIFIC conclusion about the audience for which the magazine is intended. In addition to identifying the intended audience‚ state the major purpose of the magazine. After you have examined the magazine‚ form a thesis and write a 750-word essay based on your conclusions. Here is a sample thesis for National Geographic magazine: National Geographic
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Introduction Blackwood’s Magazine is a British periodical that has controversy soaked within its history‚ more so than any other periodical in the nineteenth century. However‚ this controversy is most visibly prominent in the first eighty to one hundred years of the magazine’s existence‚ from 1817 to 1900. Somehow Blackwood‚ a politically driven publication‚ gave a rise to gothic fiction and the serialized novel‚ which paved the way as well as influenced writers such as Charles Dickens and Edgar
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the first magazine to go completely online. This concept was foreign to most people at the time of its conception because it was pre-smartphone and the majority of people reading magazines did not want to use a computer to read a magazine. But today‚ Slate is recognized as one of the pioneers of the online magazine world. Both of these examples of magazines clearly show where the magazine industry is heading today. With the progression of online magazines‚ it will be even easier for magazine companies
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Magazines surviving the technology era Almost all of us can say that we have read or skimmed through at least five magazines in our lifetime‚ if not hundreds or thousands of magazines. With an unimaginable variety how could one not? Magazines started its wild journey in 1741 with Benjamin Franklin and Andrew Bradford publishing “General Magazine” and “American Magazine” both of which were America’s first magazines. Both of these magazines were very general magazines but soon led to the concoction
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Magazine Research and Review For this paper I chose to compare Time Magazine for the News‚ Discover Magazine for the research-journal‚ and Mens Health for the health-related. First‚ I will be comparing the percentage of advertisements verses editorial copy‚ who the ads are aimed at‚ as well as how they are portrayed. Second‚ the number of males compared to females portrayed in pictures‚ number of people in ethnic groups‚ and lastly the number of writers with male names compared to female names along
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Introduction Like any rhetorical analysis essay‚ an essay analyzing a visual document should quickly set the stage for what you’re doing. Try to cover the following concerns in the initial paragraphs: Make sure to let the reader know you’re performing a rhetorical analysis. Otherwise‚ they may expect you to take positions or make an evaluative argument that may not be coming. Clearly state what the document under consideration is and possibly give some pertinent background information
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2. Create a draft version of a magazine advertisement for a fictitious product that claims to help enhance a person’s social identity or image‚ and then critique your ad. Complete all parts of the question. a) Preparation Consider the following brainstorming questions in order to start thinking about your advertisement: * What is the product? – Clear – Ox acne treatment * Who is the target audience? – Teenagers and adults‚ both female and male * What are the positive features of
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Magazine Evaluation I was asked to design and make a magazine‚ which includes the following: ✓ Front cover ✓ Contents page ✓ Editor’s letter ✓ Double page spread article First I had to do some research which mostly I done by looking at magazines such as ‘HELLO’ ‘OK’ ‘TOP GEAR’ as I was looking through the magazines I was comparing the layouts of the magazines. I also did some internet research looking at what type of articles which would go in a magazine and also
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Rhetorical Analysis: President Ronald Reagan ’s Farwell Address Rhetorical Analysis: Reagan ’s Farwell Address Ronald Reagan ’s Farewell Address was an amazing example of conveying the fundamentals for freedom through an emotional and visual lesson. It is no wonder that the president known as the "great communicator" was successful in painting for us a picture of who we were‚ past and present‚ and the improvements in the areas of strength‚ security‚ and
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The Ethics of Using Image Manipulation on magazine covers. You hear that beauty is only skin-deep‚ that it fades with time or is in the eye of the beholder. Every year people spend billions of dollars on products to try to look beautiful. Every day you see ads in newspapers and on magazine covers with beautiful men and woman that have been digitally altered. All the while wondering things like what kind of makeup is she wearing‚ is she really that thin‚ how does he get his teeth so white? The answer
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