What Should a Good Magazine Contain?

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Gavrilă Simona MTTLC, 2nd year student, gr. 2 What Should a Good Magazine Contain? A magazine is a periodical publication which contains articles, stories, pictures or other features and it is financed by advertising or by a purchase price. (www.wikipedia.org) The term “magazine” first appeared around 1580’s and it was used with the sense of “a place for storing goods, especially military ammunition”; it comes from the Arabic word “makhazin” which means “storehouse”. However, the original sense is almost gone since the first magazine (The Gentleman’s Magazine) was first published in 1731 in London. The term had been used earlier for a printed list of military stores and information and then, in a figurative sense, being considered that the magazine was a “storehouse” of information. (www.etymonline.com) Nowadays, there are many types of magazines: art magazines, business magazines, computer magazines, music magazines, sport magazines, literary magazines, humour magazines and so on. In this essay, I will present my ideas of what a good literary magazine should contain. I also have to write a literary magazine about a contemporary writer for my graduation thesis and my subject will be Mister Mihail Gălăţanu. He is a Romanian poet, novelist, essayist and journalist. Mihail Gălăţanu was born in Galaţi in 1963 and won his first literary prize in 1972 when he was only a child. However, he made his first appearance in 1982 in Cronica (The Chronicle) magazine. First of all, I think a magazine needs an interesting name to draw the attention, glossy paper, a nice format and a great design. In this case, maybe more people would want to read it, especially young people; they are more attracted to search for information on the internet, it is easier and it is free. There are good literary magazines in Romania, such as

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