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    Feature writing is a style of journalism that combines factual reporting with creative writing techniques to tell a story. It aims to inform, entertain, and persuade readers. There are many types of feature stories, including personality profiles, human interest stories, trend stories, historical features, news features, science features, sports features, occasional features, and travelogues. When writing a feature story, writers should select an experience-based, explanatory, observational, objectively factual, or subjectively factual topic. Additionally, to write a good feature story, a writer should be creative, subjective, informative, entertaining, and aim for the story to be timeless.

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    Feature writing is a style of journalism that combines factual reporting with creative writing techniques to tell a story. It aims to inform, entertain, and persuade readers. There are many types of feature stories, including personality profiles, human interest stories, trend stories, historical features, news features, science features, sports features, occasional features, and travelogues. When writing a feature story, writers should select an experience-based, explanatory, observational, objectively factual, or subjectively factual topic. Additionally, to write a good feature story, a writer should be creative, subjective, informative, entertaining, and aim for the story to be timeless.

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    Journ Lesson 14

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    Feature writing is a style of journalism that combines factual reporting with creative writing techniques to tell a story. It aims to inform, entertain, and persuade readers. There are many types of feature stories, including personality profiles, human interest stories, trend stories, historical features, news features, science features, sports features, occasional features, and travelogues. When writing a feature story, writers should select an experience-based, explanatory, observational, objectively factual, or subjectively factual topic. Additionally, to write a good feature story, a writer should be creative, subjective, informative, entertaining, and aim for the story to be timeless.

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    LESSON 14

    FEATURE
    WRITING
    WHAT IS

    FEATURE
    WRITING
    FEATURES

    - a journalistic and creative


    way of telling a story
    WHAT IS

    FEATURE
    WRITING
    FEATURES

    - It is a soft news story


    written like a piece of
    short fiction.
    WHAT IS

    FEATURE
    WRITING
    FEATURES

    - combines factual reporting


    but with the creative
    freedom of short story
    writing.
    WHAT IS

    FEATURE
    WRITING
    FEATURES

    - popular content elements of


    newspapers, magazines,
    blogs ,websites, newsletters,
    television broadcasts and
    other mass media.
    FEATURE WRITING

    OBJECTIVES
    FEATURE WRITING

    OBJECTIVES
    1. To Inform
    2. To Entertain
    3. To Persuade
    LESSON 14

    TYPES OF
    FEATURE
    ARTICLES
    TYPES OF FEATURES

    PERSONALITY
    PROFILES
    - written to bring an
    audience closer to a
    person in or out of the
    news.
    TYPES OF FEATURES

    HUMAN
    INTEREST
    - written to show a
    subject’s oddity or its
    practical, emotional,
    or entertainment
    value.
    TYPES OF FEATURES

    TREND
    STORIES
    - examines people,
    things or organizations
    that are having an
    impact on society.
    TYPES OF FEATURES

    HISTORICAL
    FEATURES
    - written to commemorate
    important dates in history
    or turning points in our
    social, political and
    cultural life.
    TYPES OF FEATURES

    NEWS
    FEATURES
    - It thoroughly explores an
    issue through research,
    statistical data and
    most importantly,
    interviews with
    news sources.
    TYPES OF FEATURES

    SCIENCE
    FEATURES
    - stories related to science
    TYPES OF FEATURES

    SPORTS
    FEATURES
    - stories related to sports
    TYPES OF FEATURES

    OCCASIONAL
    FEATURES
    - this includes subjects
    such as events and
    holidays.
    TYPES OF FEATURES

    TRAVELOGUE
    - An account of one’s
    travel experiences and a
    vivid description of the
    place visited.
    LESSON 14

    TOPICS FOR
    FEATURES
    STORIES
    - When you write about
    your personal or
    someone’s experience

    EXPERIENCE
    TOPICS FOR FEATURES
    - Writing whose chief goal
    is to explain

    EXPOSITION
    TOPICS FOR FEATURES
    - This is sensing
    topics by recreating
    for the readers what the
    writers have seen, heard
    and felt.
    OBSERVATION
    &
    TOPICS FOR FEATURES
    - It is writing from
    observable,
    measurable facts

    OBJECTIVE
    REALITIES
    TOPICS FOR FEATURES
    - It is writing beyond
    dimensions.

    SUBJECTIVE
    REALITIES
    TOPICS FOR FEATURES
    LESSON 14

    HOW DO YOU
    MAKE A GOOD
    FEATURE?
    LESSON 14
    HOW TO MAKE A GOOD
    FEATURE
    STORY?
    BE CREATIVE: Imagine
    BE SUBJECTIVE: Inject your own thoughts
    BE INFORMATIVE: Give useful details
    BE ENTERTAINING: Not boring
    BE TIMELESS: Let your
    story linger in the
    hearts of your readers
    LESSON 14

    FEATURE
    WRITING

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