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12.10: Popular Periodicals (aka "magazines")

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    Characteristics that help you identify a periodical as popular:
    • Tend to have short articles (1-5 pages)

    • Cover a variety of topic/subject areas (Time, The New Yorker, National Review). Conversely, they may cover a single subject area – Sports Illustrated or Audubon are good examples – with the intention of informing or entertaining the readership

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      Scott Hess – Time magazine article – CC BY-NC 2.0

    Have articles that do not contain a bibliography or a cited reference page. The reader cannot check the author’s information by tracking down and reading the original information source


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