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Write to Publish

Write to Publish. Feature Writing 1. Introduction of feature writing. Here come the DINKs. Learn to write a feature. From extensive recounting to intensive reporting. Now, your turn ––––. What you have gone through is a typical feature.

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Write to Publish

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  1. Write to Publish Feature Writing 1

  2. Introduction of feature writing

  3. Here come the DINKs.

  4. Learn to write a feature From extensive recounting to intensive reporting

  5. Now, your turn –––– • What you have gone through is a typical feature. • Definition: a feature is a special report about a subject in a newspaper or a magazine. 特写 feature

  6. The necessity of feature writing • From extensive recounting to intensive reporting • After investigation, write a report.

  7. Schedule for the first feature writing: A Career I (Admire)……(Design your own topic) • Week 6: • Reading of the sample article on DINK families • Decision on a focus of topic • Necessary desk review of the topic • Make out a question-list for interviewing • Weeks 7-8: • Field survey: interview • Book-building (书面材料整理) • Week 9: • Composing of the report • Deadline: week 10 (29, April)

  8. Rules The investigation lasts two weeks. Group cooperation is encouraged. Interviews are required; Notes should be translated into English after each interview.

  9. A discussion: your focus What kind of people you would like to talk about? How do they work? How do they live? How do they think about themselves? What are their social values? Are they faced with any dilemma?

  10. New Task Investigation after class: The feeling of some people who are pursuing the same career as you admire

  11. Focuses How do they work? How do they live? How do they think about themselves? their social value? their dilemma?

  12. The Career I Admire

  13. Is team work necessary? It is highly recommended!

  14. Group discussion • Operability • Coverage • Articulation (Clarity) • Orientation • ……

  15. Oral Report Interviewing people in the trade I（admire）.

  16. After investigation, learn to write a report. From extensive recounting to intensive reporting

  17. At first, find out a focus a special kind of people How do they work? How do they live? How do they think about themselves? their social value their dilemma

  18. Model • Here come the Double-Income, No-Kids DINKs

  19. Contents of Teaching 1) Appreciate the sample articles delivered on Chinese migrant workers. 2) Appreciate some good student works of feature styles of previous years.

  20. Retrospect:Dinks’ dilemma in career pursuing Successful More discretionary income Enjoying a nest Time poor Supercharged Pets instead of kids

  21. Design Your Title pithy, & striking Your Subtitle responsive and illustrative

  22. Title and subtitleExamples from Time • Trapped behind the Wheel Clever commuters learn to live in the slow lane • Show Me the Way to Go Home Unexpected numbers of young adults are living with their parents • The New Whiz Kids Why Asian Americans are doing so well, and what it costs them

  23. Opening paragraphs • a hook Motifs and illustration: (基调与描写) Vivid and dynamic

  24. Illustrations Gourmet Cellular phone architect-designed house exurb pooch service nutritionally correct dog food Phone-answering machine Italian leather sofa High-definition,large-screen stereo television Motif: Example: illustration of the DINKs } extravagant tastes and habits

  25. Focus(center of interest) Not thesis (statement put forward and supported by arguments) followed by general description The 2nd paragraph

  26. Illustrative paragraphs • Sub-topics • Supporting examples Description and quotations, mingled with comments

  27. Concluding paragraphs • response to the focus of the report The dilemma Expert opinions

  28. So-what Provoking further interest

  29. Try your best to reach: • an in-depth look • a pithy and striking title • a responsive and illustrative sub-title • a hook-focus-illustration structure with a clear arrangement of ideas • sufficient illustration with statistics and dialogues • language: concise, witty, diversified

  30. Student works of previous years. Please open your textbook.

  31. Pages 209-210 Wolf Or Angel In White ? What’s the image of the doctor in modern society? • 02级 谭洁怡

  32. Pages 210-211 To Change, or to Keep Going On? Teachers are not worry-free any longer 02级 黄燕旋

  33. Pages 211-212 Closer Look into the Bar ——What’s the lawyer in China like? 02级陈清华

  34. Let’s call it a day.

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