Course Research Journal Assignment
You can find additional magazine templates in Adobe Stock.
Advice for a successful project
- Get inspired by your model (the publication your course journal is similar to). Understand the audience, genre, purpose; analyze writing style and types of imagery used.
- Compose in Word, design in InDesign.
- Think about consistency and cohesion within the issue. What elements should be the same in every article? Work with your classmates to decide.
- Think about how to make your article stand out. Engaging images to catch people’s eye. Carefully written title and headings – readers will read these first, and they must invite people to read further!
- Choose images that you are allowed to reuse (see resources on images + copyright below).
- Choose images that add meaning. Think about the purpose of your images; do they provide information, set the tone, evoke certain emotions?
- Once you have a draft, think about balance. Look at the layout of text and images from far away or with squinty eyes. Does it look balanced?
- Once you have a draft, do peer review!
- Keep all your files (InDesign, PDF, image files) together in one folder. Do not move or delete your image files!
- If you have technical problems, ask a classmate for help! Try Googling for the answer to your problem. Check Adobe's InDesign tutorials.
Images + Copyright
Understand Creative Commons:
"Teaching Students to Legally Use Images Online" -- Geeky Pedagogy
Sources for images that can be reused:
10 Basic Steps to Creating a Research Journal
Detailed step-by-step directions are supplied below for each project (creating from a template or creating from scratch).
- File management. Make a folder for your project. Keep all related files here!
- Establish your design. If working from a template, choose your template and download it. If creating a new template or new design, use the “Building an InDesign Template" form in the project files to measure your publication and identify your text styles.
- Create your document. If working from a template, open the .indt file and save as an InDesign document. If creating a template from scratch, put in publication measurements from step #2 into the new document dialog box.
- Adjust/create text. Use the Type tool to adjust text and place the text of your article.
- Apply/create paragraph styles.
- Place images and resize.
- Adjust/create the Parent Pages.
- Tweak the layout to fit. Adjust text and image frames so that your article fits nicely within the template.
- Save your finished document. Export to PDF.
- Compile all articles together in Adobe Acrobat. Use the Edit feature to adjust the page numbers if desired. Share widely or upload to issuu.com or another document sharing site.
Use an InDesign template to create a magazine article:
Create a magazine article from scratch:
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Publish your article online. When you article is done, go to File>Publish Online.
Your article will be saved in the Adobe Cloud. You can copy and paste the URL into the form below!
Credits:
Created with images by fotofabrika - "magazine close up" • C.Castilla - " Fashion articles and catalog design over white background.Newspaper and journal. Entertainment and leisure. Publication in magazin and books background" • fotofabrika - "woman reading magazine at home" • onephoto - "publication Newspaper and journal books background and catalog design article magazine press Newspaper with tablet"