The Magazine that I chose to analyze was “Seventeen”. Ironically the magazine named “Seventeen” has an article in it written for an eleven year old. The Fry Graph has proven by the amount of sentences in a one hundred word article with the amount of sentences and syllables that it is suitable for an eleven year old. The ratio of content pages to advertising pages is 81:66. This means that the magazine “Seventeen” has many pages that have nothing to do with what the magazine is about. There were various advertisements all throughout it. My magazine compared to others at my group has a lot more advertising. This says that “Seventeen” magazine is taken less seriously because it has a lot less content pages for actual articles. This also goes along the lines that it is for eleven year olds so they aren’t even going to notice the ratio between ads and content pages. A profile of this magazines prototypical target reader would be an eleven year old female, with a not so good reading level because there are few articles and they’re all decently short. They would be interested in fashion, life tips including boys, ways to eat healthy and also just plain old gossip.
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