feature articles (2 Viewers)

[sly fly]

hey could anyone give me some tips on how 2 write a feature article. Like i know the basic stuff but any minor stuff or effective techniques would help. Thanks

 

[kimmeh]

+heading
+Bi-line - ie, two sentences that introduce the content of the article and serves as a purpose to engage the responder to read the whole article
+Written like a newspaper article
+Consider carefully your audience: an intellectual audience will be adressed in a formal style of writing, a computing consumer would expect to see "computer jargon" in their articles, teenagers would most likely to be adressed in a colloquial manner - though it is best that you do write in a formal register
+Use lots of repetition, alliteration, allusions, anecdotes, similies, exxageration/hyperbole and other language techniques as this engages the responder to read on

The best thing for you to do is to buy the sunday paper and the sunday magazine is filled with feature articles that you can look at and get some ideas. Read each one, annotate it and notice how they all follow the one structure but only differ to cater for a certain audience.

 

[bluesky100]

Hope this helps.
_____________________________

Contexts

*magazines
*newspapers
*newsletters

Language Features
*Often startes w/ an anecdote illustrating the problem
*Can be written in the first person where personal experience or voice of the writer is important
*Issues-based feature article often use the 3rd person
*Deepending on space, uses key pieces of information or evidence
*Usually canvasses different perspectives on the issue or problem
*Stance or contention is sometimes very clear; other times, it is implied by the writer's tone or selection of material
*Often concludes by returning to the anecdote told at the start, thus achieving unity.

 

[MissSavage29]

for a feature article u must also have the visual effects right

- this means u would need to include pictures - with these it is a very good idea to describe what u want them to look like and little specific detaisl - this stands out to your marker and shows that you ahve been thinking - say you were writing a feature article about the journey - and you had a picture and you gave it a slight green tinge you could not that green = newlife - hence symbolic meaning

you also need to have captioned quotes - these have to been enlarged and stand out - make this interesting quirks that relate directly to the topic that you are writing about

simple little things also get you marks - having the name of the paper/magazine you are writing for at the top of the page - page number at the bottom - when u sign off putting a little square to end off the article - these are really little fidley things that you wont lose marks for not having - but trust me if u do you will get marks because it shows u really know the form

with the lingusitic style of a feature article u are allowed to be more personal - you can include your own opinions - you can be blatently biased - you can slander something or praise it to no end - you can be very selective in the information u choose- this is all part of the form - if they didn't want you to have some opinion they would ask for a newspaper article

 

[sly fly]

thanx alot guys...........uz r champs!