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Types of Periodicals: Popular Magazines

Uses and features of journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Types of Periodicals

Spectrum from scholarly sources to popular sources, with different types of periodical mediums.

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Popular Magazine Characteristics

  • Current events & news
  • Primary source for popular culture
  • Short articles
  • Interviews
  • Some book reviews

Various magazine covers shown, some on digital devices.

Taken from Maclean's, November 16, 2105.

  • Non-technical, often simple, language

Colour image of a pug dog licking a laughing babies face. Underneath is an article on gut bacteria.

Taken from Maclean's, November 16, 2105, pg 23.

  • Journalists

Author picture and biography for Kate Lunau. Underneath are other available article titles.

Screenshot taken from http://www.macleans.ca/society/health/how-our-childrens-guts-can-affect-their-adult-health/

  • Original sources can be obscure

Magazine page, upper half is text, lower half is a chart showing time served by various political figures from 2000 to 2025.

 

Taken from Maclean's, November 16, 2105, pg 20.

  • Commercial/trade publishers
  • Glitzy
  • Many graphics and pictures
  • Lots of color ads

Magazine page showing the end of an article, in the middle is a blurry photo of a man and woman smiling at the camera. along the right border is a red, white, and black publishing advertisement.

Taken from Maclean's, November 16, 2105, pg. 37.

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