An informative lecture by Mr Vimal Joshi
Writing Features:
Writing Features:
Feature writing is
somewhat different. There is more room for creative expression in feature
articles because they are more concerned with mood and feeling. They are
written as much to entertain as to inform. Still, newspaper readers are still
in a hurry, still have a thousand things competing for their attention and are
still interested in getting information quickly and easily. That means that certain
conventions have grown up around feature articles.
Feature articles
usually begin with a delayed lead - an anecdotal or descriptive lead. Instead
of the who-did-what-and-when of hard news, a feature often begins with one or
two or three short paragraphs to set the scene. Then comes the real lead of the
article. In a feature article, the part that does the job of the lead is
usually called the nut graf ("graf" is newspaper slang for
paragraph.) This nut graf must explain the opening anecdote and put it in a
broader context. It tells the reader what the feature article is about.
Key elements that make up a good feature:
- Looking beyond news
- Does not get stalled in one day
- spot a trend
- defies conventional rules of journalism
- profiling an interesting person or a group
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