Summary of My Magazine Contribution

For the magazine I have now written three articles; an article against the rise in university tuition fees, an article in favour of the rise in university tuition fees, and the interview with Mark Bramwell. Furthermore, I have also submitted a short story for the magazine. This was because we wanted to put some creative writing pieces in the magazine. When our editor contacted the department for any creative writing piece, they did not respond, and, coincidentally, I had written a short story for a piece of coursework for anther subject.

I had planned to write a fourth article for the magazine, an article on the war in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, I did not have to time to write this article before the deadline, due to working on the other articles, as well other work commitments, and so it has not been submitted.

I have tried to write my articles in a informal way, but still with a good range of complex vocabulary to fit the target audience the article is being aimed at. I have also tried to add a personal aspect to my articles as they are being written for a magazine for older teenagers, rather than for a newspaper publication. Moreover, with the personal aspect, I have added an aspect of whit to the articles to try to make the articles more entertaining for the reader.

Mark Bramwell interview

I had arranged a time and date for the interview with Mark now, and so I went along with my questions. After reviewing the questions with our editor, we decided that we also needed to add a few more personal questions about Mark, as the interview was centred around his retirement.

I tried to get this balance, between political questions and personal questions right, and I feel I did as the interview went very well with Mark.

Now I have all the answers to my questions, I now have to write up my article. I have tried to write the interview up so it reads like an article, similar to the interview with F. Scott Fitzgerald, by Michel Mok. I found this particularly hard to do as it is hard to write questions and answers as a narrative.

However, I have now written two drafts for this article, and I now feel that this is good quality interview, and has now been submitted for the magazine.