ASSIGNMENT 3
Textbook Assignment:
Writing for Magazines, pages 4-1 through 4-11.
3-1.
Which of the following news media
tends to be overlooked by Navy
journalists?
1.
Newspapers
2.
Magazines
3.
Radio
4.
Television
.
3-2.
Magazines are especially valuable
for telling the Navys story
because they have which of the
following characteristics?
1.
Magazines offer a ready market
for any subject considered
2.
Magazines are published
specifically for any audience
segmentation one might wish
to reach
3.
Magazines provide a market
for stories of too narrow
an interest to be published
by newspapers
4.
All of the above
3-3.
Which of the four classes of
magazines is the largest?
1.
Consumer magazines
2.
Business journals
3.
Company publications
4.
Service-oriented periodicals
3-4.
What are the two types of consumer
magazines?
1.
Employee and sales
2.
Internal and commercial
enterprise
3.
General interest and special
interest
4.
Trade and technical journals
3-5.
Which of the following charac-
teristics serve to distinguish
one magazine from another?
1.
Style and primary subject
matter
2.
Competence of the writers
and lengths of articles
3.
Number of subjects covered
and the amount of information
presented
IN ANSWERING QUESTIONS 3-6 THROUGH 3-15,
SELECT FROM COLUMN B THE CATEGORY WHICH
BEST DESCRIBES THE TYPE OF MAGAZINE LISTED
IN COLUMN A.
RESPONSES MAY BE USED MORE
THAN ONCE.
3-6.
3-7.
3-8.
3-9.
3-10.
3-11.
3-12.
3-13.
3-14.
3-15.
A. MAGAZINE
B. CATEGORY
Cashflow
1.
General
Military Living
2.
Special
Time
3.
Profes-
sional or
Sports Illustrated
trade
Golf Digest
4.
Commercial
Enterprise
Readers Digest
Denver Livinq
Motor Maqazine
Editor and Publisher
Life
3-16.
Magazines directed at a specific
group of readers are in which of
the following categories?
1.
General interest publications
2.
Special interest publications
3.
Customer magazines
4.
Professional journals
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