Analysing Existing Magazines

To ensure I know the common conventions of school magazines I am going to analyse two magazine covers and contents pages because as many well known theorist agree products have to match the expectations of the target audience through following generic conventions of the genre they are from as well as being original:

“A process needed for problem solving…not a special gift enjoyed by a few but a common ability possessed by most people”  (Jones, 1993).

“The making of the new and the rearranging of the old” (Bentley, 1997)

“Creativity results from the interaction of a system composed of three elements: a culture that contains symbolic rules, a person who brings novelty into the symbolic domain, and a field of experts who recognise and validate the innovation” (Csikszentmihalyi, 1996).