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What is a Feature Article?

What is a Feature Article?. Creative Deals with real events, issues, and trends Unlike news articles, it places emphasis on the people involved rather than on the facts. Written to a specific audience Author writes to persuade readers to adopt his opinion on the topic

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What is a Feature Article?

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  1. What is a Feature Article? • Creative • Deals with real events, issues, and trends • Unlike news articles, it places emphasis on the people involved rather than on the facts • Written to a specific audience • Author writes to persuade readers to adopt his opinion on the topic • Organized in columns with headings, bullets

  2. How can I be creative & engage the reader? • Anecdotes • Vignettes • Foreshadowing • Descriptions • Flashbacks • Tables • Comparisons • Sketches • Examples • Pictures • Quotes • Reasons/facts

  3. Be Creative with Text • HEADINGS • “Subheadings” • FONTS • Italics • Bold print • Bullets • COLOR ink

  4. The Human-Interest Feature • Most common feature article • Reports success in spite of great odds • Recalls tragic predicament • Shares continuing struggles supported only by hope and fate.

  5. Features of “The Best” Articles • Personal experience with the situation • Proof, along with examples, to explain your ideas • Mix of formal and informal language for effect – not by accident! • Conclusion that brings reader back to beginning • Catchy title

  6. Gather Information (Research) • The Library • The internet? • Encyclopedias • Card Catalog • Newspapers • Magazines

  7. Keep a record of all your sources on a sheet like the one below

  8. Organize the Information - Structure • Headlines • By-line (writer’s name) • A short ‘blurb’ paragraph before the first paragraph • Catchy titles • Subheadings • Bullets • Quotes throughout • A concluding paragraph will state a definite point of view

  9. Language Features • Emotive language • Varied sentence length ranging from short and simple to long and complex. • Short paragraphs • Direct speech is used with “…”

  10. Layout of Feature Article • BIG eye-catching headline • Several style and sizes of font • Narrow column format • First paragraph may start with a dropped capital • Sections of the text may be highlighted to attract attention • May include a photo with caption

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