Feature Writing (COM353)

If you ask the question "how and why" things happen, then you probably like reading feature stories in newspapers and magazines. A feature takes an in-depth look at what’s going on behind the news. It may be a profile of a person or a group; an athlete, a performer, a politician, or a community worker or a team, a theatre group or a political organization.

• Introduction
• Feature stories - feature writing
• Research and Interview
• Review - Writing preparation
• Feature writing for newspapers
• Feature writing for magazines

• Write feature stories and news articles
• Propose conceptual frameworks of feature writing for finished stories
• Apply appropriate style and structure to developing the feature writing
• Use genre-appropriate techniques of feature writing to enhance the effectiveness of the story
• Design various types of features
• Construct the story development process for features
• Discuss issues pertaining to the feature writing to improve effectiveness of writing in the professional workplace