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... magazines . To appeal to the audience for which it is designed , every magazine must be carefully edited so that its language is the one with which its readers are most at home . Boys ' Life , the Boy Scout magazine , Hot - Rod , and ...
... magazines . To appeal to the audience for which it is designed , every magazine must be carefully edited so that its language is the one with which its readers are most at home . Boys ' Life , the Boy Scout magazine , Hot - Rod , and ...
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... magazine intended for kindergarten - age children . A talk on domestic economic policy to be delivered at a luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club . A talk to be delivered by a Boy Scout leader to the troop before they leave for the ...
... magazine intended for kindergarten - age children . A talk on domestic economic policy to be delivered at a luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club . A talk to be delivered by a Boy Scout leader to the troop before they leave for the ...
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... magazines ? Why ? ( b ) Compare the style of a pulp fiction magazine with that of one of the higher - priced " slick " fiction magazines . Enumerate some of the more conspicuous differences in word choice and phraseology between two ...
... magazines ? Why ? ( b ) Compare the style of a pulp fiction magazine with that of one of the higher - priced " slick " fiction magazines . Enumerate some of the more conspicuous differences in word choice and phraseology between two ...
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