More Research!

All the magazines that i have been researching have all had the same conventions which seem to match the college magazine criteria:

• issue date
•  mast head (title)
• anchorage (text that ties down the meaning of the image)
• banner (across the cover)
• direct mode of address. (were the writing has calls the audience "you")
•  house style (a consistant use of colour and fonts)
•  synergy (using the mag to sell another product)
•  puff (promotional advert for another service, government or council of that are)