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	Feature Writing, Marshall Soules, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In a version of featurizing, pressure from advertisers or lobbyists often result in writing that appears at first blush to be news when it is, in fact, promotion for a product, idea, or policy.
		Instead, they may write a chronology that builds to a climax at the end, a narrative, a first-person article about one of their own experiences or a combination of these.
		Because a feature generally runs longer than a news story, it is effective to weave a thread throughout the story, which connects the lead to the body and to the conclusion.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/media301/feature.htm (1259 words)

	FEATURE WRITING: a learning map
		Feature writing is an upper level journalism course in non-fiction writing for publication.
		Course Grades will be based on quality and improvement in writing; quality of participation in class sessions (including attendance); quality of written and oral responses to reading assignments; number and quality of submissions for publication; use of journal and compost file for cultivation of story ideas; and attitude and effort throughout the semester.
		Write a serious or humorous account of an experience that influenced the direction of your life or the development of your character.
	www.worldlymind.org /mainfeat.htm (1229 words)

	SNN Newsroom - Reporters Toolbox-Feature Writing
		Unlike news, a feature does not have to be tied to a current event or a breaking story.
		The feature often explores several different points of views, even when the story is about one particular person.
		Write your profile by telling your readers the facts of this person's life — while adding the color and details that make them unique.
	www.snn-rdr.ca /snn/nr_reporterstoolbox/featurewriting.html (1075 words)

	Intro. to Media Writing - Online Notes for Feature Writing
		Writing the Depth and Context Stories: You know the purposes of these stories and what prose forms they take, now it is time to talk about writing them.
		This is a transition paragraph between the lead and the body that sketches and outlines the story to come: the nutgraph is your thesis statement, the peg.
		Features should be circular in that you refer back to the lead to end your story.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /instruct/cahomsta/MCOM210/feature2.html (1110 words)

	Feature Writing
		Well look at how to write features, how to target features to specific audiences, and how to write an inquiry letterthe first step in making money by doing things you want to do.
		This feature should focus on a topic that would be of interest to your target publication.
		This feature must have interviews with the person being profiled, interviews with family members and/or neighbors and others who know him/her well, background on their life and what makes them interesting, etc. The focus MUST be on what shaped the individual and on the factors that made the individual what he/she is today.
	www.lsu.edu /ukmedia/3002features.htm (1060 words)

	FEATURE WRITING
		Feature Writing uses all the "tools" of Newswriting and adds and expands upon them.
		Because feature writing is a non-fiction writing style, students need to master the writing techniques of newspapers and magazines.
		You may be asked to critique the feature in detail as part of the quiz, applying information from textbook chapters and class lectures.
	www.towson.edu /~bhalle/feat.html (2130 words)

	Writer, Editor & Consultant - guide to feature writing
		My first attempt at feature writing, nearly a decade ago, was a total mess.
		In feature writing, leads get most of the attention, but endings are equally, if not more, important.
		Now that you have all the tools to write your feature story, you need to decide what kind of story you're going to write.
	www.oonyeoh.squarespace.com /guide-to-feature-writing (218 words)

	Writing Activity: Feature Writing
		Feature leads may be more than one paragraph long and usually do not include the 5 W's and H. The main purposes of a feature lead are to set the tone and get the reader's attention.
		The purpose of this feature lead is to draw the reader in--that is, to make him or her curious.
		If this writing activity is done as a part of a class the teacher is encouraged to set up and explain evaluation criteria in advance.
	www.usd.edu /dwp/activities/featurestory2.html (1224 words)

	Feature Writing Overview
		Although the writing styles and story approaches that will be covered are somewhat more flexible, more creative, more subjective, and even more fun than traditional hard-news writing, the course is essentially an advanced reporting course.
		It emphasizes writing that is primarily intended, in the words of the text, "to pass along facts and other information to others." Entertainment, literary value, and personal satisfaction may be considerations, but they're much less important than conveying factual information.
		Students have wide latitude in choosing publications for which to write, but at least one must be a newspaper, one must be a magazine, one must be an NKU publication; and three must be non-NKU publications.
	www.nku.edu /~turney/features.htm (742 words)

	Readership Institute \| Newspaper Content: News and Advertising \| Value of Feature-style Writing Main Page
		Feature-style writing is found to increase satisfaction in a variety of topic areas: politics, sports, science, health, home and food among them.
		When we talk about "feature-style" writing, we don't mean "feature stories." We're not describing a story type but a writing style, also called narrative writing.
		Feature-style writing encompasses many writing styles and the Readership Institute continues to explore what the implications are for reporters and editors.
	readership.org /content/editorial/feature-style/main.htm (870 words)

	Kids Freesouls - Journalism - Feature Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		All leading business magazines carry life style features which are more or less showpieces of a changing society and so, the competition is hand to hand for an exposure in writing with a flair as a Life style feature writer.
		Concerned Features: These have the power to exposure the burning issues like the Education, poverty, corruption, drug addiction, women issues, hapless victims, etc The concerned writing calls for a debate to show the magnitude of the problem through cases, anecdotes and quotable quotes and a lot of writing stuff challenging the perspective.
		Feature writing on Health and medical issues, Sun sign writers or Numerical features like writing on the magic of numbers – astrology and numerology.
	www.kidsfreesouls.com /featurewriting.htm (881 words)

	Writers Store: Feature Writing I - The Basics - Gotham Writers' Workshop
		Feature articles represent the human side of journalism, going beyond facts to explore the world in a personal way that grabs the reader's attention right from the opening line.
		Features appear in newspapers and magazines of all types, and can examine virtually any topic — from the latest breaking news to emerging style trends to profiles of fascinating people.
		Feature Writing is for beginners or anyone who wants to brush up on the fundamentals.
	www.writersstore.com /product.php?products_id=2025 (285 words)

	Writer's Block, Feature, Writing Your Way to Travel Adventure - Fall 1999
		Writing a few newspaper reviews of local concert events hardly qualified me to report on the world of travel and the merits of remote and exotic places.
		The experience stayed with me and that's why in the summer of 1977, when I was struggling with career options, I decided to write a feature article about my journey through this oasis of wealth and glamour that was so far removed from my own world.
		If you plan to syndicate your column or feature, remember that syndicates generally take 50 percent of the money, and weekly or monthly features are usually lumped into a group of daily columns being sold.
	www.writersblock.ca /fall1999/feature.htm (1772 words)

	Poynter Online - Reviving the Feature Story
		In my recent essay about the Feature Writing category of the Pulitzer Prizes, I argued that weighty narrative series may have elbowed the traditional stand-alone feature out of contention.
		(The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing is important only because it declares a standard of excellence to which other journalists aspire.) Readers like stories, even news stories, written in "feature style," according to the Readership Institute.
		As a result, the habitat for the traditional stand-alone feature has shrunk, and, with it, the habit of reading good stories that used to draw many of us to the newspaper in the first place.
	www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=67829 (1032 words)

	Feature Story: Writing to Heal: Research shows writing about emotional experiences can have tangible health benefits
		His research has shown that short-term focused writing can have a beneficial effect on everyone from those dealing with a terminal illness to victims of violent crime to college students facing first-year transitions.
		In 2004 he published “Writing to Heal: A Guided Journal for Recovering from Trauma and Emotional Upheaval.” The book is aimed at a general audience and offers a primer on writing and healing and numerous exercises that anyone who is capable of putting pen to paper can undertake.
		The writing experience had made her realize she was on a life path she no longer wanted and that she had been putting on a false, cheerful front with her friends.
	www.utexas.edu /features/archive/2005/writing.html (1606 words)

	Kids Freesouls - Journalism - Feature Writing
		Features tend to be original and descriptive; original in ideas and writing skills.
		Features writers can evoke imaginary stories, which would be edited out of a news story but subject to the journalistic standards of accuracy, fairness and precision.
		Stories that give insight to careers, role models, career planning, mid career crisis lead to interesting and informative feature writing especially for the people who have to decide the fate to earn their bread and butter.
	members.tripod.com /kidsfreesouls/featurewriting.htm (871 words)

	FREELANCE FEATURE WRITING
		For example, if your feature is the cover story for the Baltimore City Paper, a section of the Sun, or in a magazine, you would receive all 10 points.
		You will be given a copy of her resume and selected writings and should prepare a list of 20 questions before the interview.
		You are to critique 15 feature stories, 1 from Literary Journalism (for your critique presentation), 7 that you find on your own in newspapers, 7 that you find on your own in magazines.
	www.towson.edu /~bhalle/freel.html (1494 words)

	Feature Writing Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Feature writing is an advanced writing and reporting course that fulfills the University’s general education advanced writing requirement.
		You will learn how to develop ideas for feature articles, find a market for these articles, write query letters to sell these articles, and to report and write these articles.
		Discharge any feature writing duties with acceptable quality and speed for mass media and organizational publications.
	www.towson.edu /~klauffer/featuresyllabus.html (2587 words)

	Journalism 202-Feature Writing
		Feature Writing is a fast-paced, challenging and creative course.
		Feature writing is part art, part craft and a skill that requires patience and practice.
		You will learn how to write these kinds of stories, and you will read writers who have mastered features that will make you jealous of their talent.
	oncampus.richmond.edu /academics/journalism/202-02.html (1712 words)

	Review: Gardner's Guide to Feature Animation Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Most of the book's exercises are along the lines of writing down the central questions of six different animated films, of which the films are the reader's choice.
		Webber states, "those of you wanting to write a feature animation script, use the rules of this book combined with the structure of the feature script Screenwriting: The Writer's Road Map" (which is the book in this series devoted to live-action screenwriting).
		Clearly something caused a change of heart as this separate volume devoted to feature writing was released two years later.
	www.digitalmediafx.com /reviews/featureanimationwriting.html (1162 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / No Pulitzer in feature writing a first for that category (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The decision not to award a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing this year marks the first time that category has gone without a winner and the 24th time in the Pulitzers' 88-year history that a journalism category has had no winner.
		None of the 2004 feature writing finalists garnered a majority of the board members' votes, said award administrator Sig Gissler.
		The feature writing finalists were Robert Lee Hotz of the Los Angeles Times, for his story on the investigation into the cause of the space shuttle Columbia's explosion; Anne Hull and Tamara Jones of The
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/04/06/no_pulitzer_in_feature_writing_a_first_for_that_category (285 words)

	Writing the Feature Story
		Feature writing is neither an art form nor a science, but a craft that can be learned and improved upon through practice.
		During the session, each student formulates an idea and does the required reporting and writing to produce a feature story with a target audience in mind.
		He has previously taught feature writing for UC Extension and was a journalism instructor at College of the Redwoods.
	www.unex.berkeley.edu /cat/course171.html (403 words)

	Center for Education - Feature Writing
		In this course, participants will learn how to write a feature story for print media.
		learn how to write a feature story and will be treated as a specific genre with its own conventions.
		This course is geared to advanced student writers who already have a foundation in writing basics from beginning writing and reporting classes.
	www.ce.com /education/Feature-Writing-10122710.htm (121 words)

	Feature Writing
		A major part of that effort is reading other people’s features and stealing and adapting their devices and ideas, for example throwing unusual images and ideas at the reader, ending a paragraph or standfirst with a question to get the reader thinking (see the beginning of this paragraph).
		At their most basic, features follow the three section rule of beginning, middle, end or exposition, development, resolution.
		It is your name on the byline and if the story has been hacked to a point where it no longer makes sense or flows it reflects on you.
	www.student.city.ac.uk /~re326/featurewriting.html (473 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Essential Feature: Writing for Magazines and Newspapers: Books: Vicky Hay,Millicent V. Hay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Essential Feature is a writing guide, a file of examples, and a style manual all in one book.
		The author concentrates on those aspects of nonfiction writing that editors find wanting in beginning journalists: research, accuracy, and the skills needed to tell a story, not just report news.
		The Essential Feature explains how to apply research and literary techniques to journalistic writing; provides eight examples of successful prize-winning published articles; combines approaches to writing with practical advice on working as a staff or freelance writer; and supplies publishing tips to give the beginning writer a better understanding of the market.
	amazon.ca /Essential-Feature-Writing-Magazines-Newspapers/dp/0231068875 (329 words)

	ACTEVA:FEATURE THIS! Feature Writing Workshop.
		Feature articles stand out because they have a different "look and feel." Plus, they present valuable information in a concise package editors find most useful.
		Steve will also be available after the workshop for a one-on-one feature article critique session so be sure to bring your samples.
		He previously worked as an editor and reporter at CBS Radio Network and is a two-time winner of awards for radio news writing and commentary from the Writers Guild of America.
	www.acteva.com /booking.cfm?bevaid=111770 (353 words)

	About Feature Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I may not be able to teach you to write, but I can point out others who have done it successfully and I can encourage you to write, rewrite and write again until you're satisfied with your assignment and we agree that it is a decent effort.
		Extra credit: You may receive up to 10 percent extra credit (to be averaged in with other grades) if you work with a representative of CTV or C of C Radio to use one of your feature stories for broadcast.
		Writing grades will be based on the success of your lead, gathering of information (through research, interviews, observation), organization and support of lead, use of quotations, paraphrases and attributions, effective ending, word choice, clarity, completeness, objectivity, spelling, punctuation and grammar.
	www.cofc.edu /~aventk/feature.htm (435 words)

	COM 373: Feature Writing and Magazine Management
		Skills needed to write as a free-lance writer and a staff writer in the magazine industry are developed.
		Among the types of writing covered are human interest, personality sketch, humor, how-to, background and informational pieces.
		For students to develop the skills in writing different types of feature articles that are found in the majority of magazines, e-zines and newspapers today.
	users.etown.edu /g/gillistl/com373.html (1949 words)

	Writing the Feature Article
		While straight news is as essential as your morning coffee, the feature article is there to shed light on a serious issue that needs attention.
		In writing features, I've covered a variety of topics, met some interesting and truly gorgeous and brilliant people, and learned to write what I believe is the purest form of creative nonfiction, the feature article.
		While editors encourage individuality among their feature writers-and are well aware of each writer's strengths and weaknesses-the bottom line is readership, and, generally speaking, subscribers don't take too well to change.
	www.spawn.org /editing/writefeatures.htm (843 words)

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