1. The differences and purposes of popular magazines, trade/professional magazines, and scholarly journals; and how to differentiate between the three (refer to #2).
2. The main differences between the three exists within their uses; audience; language; and authors:
- Scholarly journals consist of in-depth analysis for scholars and researchers, written in specialized subject vocabulary by experts in a field or scholars.
- Trade magazines are useful for up-to-date information of an industry, written for those in the industry with industry jargon, by professionals in the specific industry.
- Popular magazines captures current news; general interest; popular culture, and is written for the general public in everyday language by journalists and other staff/guest writers.
3. Advantages of print forms of periodicals: the physical text is more convenient to carry around than a computer, it is often easier to read printed text than text on a computer screen
Disadvantages of print forms of periodicals: more expensive to publish and distribute than electronic forms, not as easily accessible as an online text
Advantages of electronics forms of periodicals: the text can be accessed at any computer, cheaper to publish and distribute, individual sections can be found by using the search option, hypertext
Disadvantages of electronics forms of periodicals: one must have a computer nearby to access the text, often more difficult to read than printed text, cannot be conveniently carried like a printed text
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Exactly. Good description. I particularly like your idea of differentiating among the three types of periodicals by use, although they are also inherently different in themselves.
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