Instruction and practice in planning, writing, reporting and, editing copy for magazines. In considering magazine writing as a journalist's life work, journalist should examine the magazine article as a special kind of writing, unique in some ways but flexible enough to include many different styles, treatments, and subjects. Magazine articles interpret, comment, analyze, and provide insight into the various facets of society. Magazine writers tackle every imaginable topic from the most trivial to the most serious in a style that, depending on the subject and the magazine, can be formal and informal, aloof or personal, highly literary and perfectly plain.