Thursday, 15 October 2009

: Conventions of a College Magazine Contents Page

More pictures - Help show what more of the stories are about and sparks interest with the reader. The pictures are numbered with their corresponding pages to make it easier for the reader to find out about any particualrly interesting pictures.
Page numbers - Not just a convention of a College Magazine, but of magazines in general. Helps the reader quickly find particular articles which they want to view and saves them from looking through the whole magazine when they only want to view one particular excerpt.


Small information about articles - In the main contents listings there are small, one sentence long summaries of each article. This is to give enough information to further interest the reader, makign them want to keep reading the artice, but not giving away so much information that reading it would be unnecessary. I think this is a very clever way of engaging the readers interest, as normally, when a person knows only a small part of something, they want to know more about it, so they are more liekly to read the article and show interest in the subject, due to their desire to know more"

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