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Articles appear in popular magazines.
Example: General magazine: Church, George J.,"The big spill."
(Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska) Time v133, n15 (April 10, 1989):38.
Subject-focused magazine: Barinaga, Marcia, "Fisheries first
to suffer." (Alaska oil spill) Nature v338, n6216 (April 13,
1989):533.
Magazines
- Audience: General public to knowledgeable layperson
- Coverage: Popular topics; current affairs
- Written By: Professional journalists; not necessarily specialists
in the field; poets and writers of fiction, essayists
- Timeliness: Very current coverage (one week to several months)
- Length: 250 - 5,000 words
- Content: Still, a strong emphasis on reporting: who, what, where,
when and why; general discussion; editorial opinion; graphics; photographs;
advertisements; usually no bibliography or list of sources
- Slant: May reflect the editorial bias / slant of the magazine
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