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This document provides information and guidance about writing feature articles. It defines what a feature article is, discusses different types of feature articles like human interest features, news features, and how-to features. It also provides tips for introducing a feature article through techniques like a startling statement, narrative opening, or quoted remarks. The document outlines how to organize ideas in a feature article and lists potential sources of ideas. It gives guidance on how to write a feature article, from choosing a topic to structuring and revising the article. Sample openings, closings and structures for feature articles are also provided.
Feature JCDG
- 1. Writing © JCDG | 2015
- 2. WHAT is
- 3. • is an essay based on fact • a special story or an article in a newspaper or magazine that shows human-interest rather than straight news. FEATURE is…
- 4. F E U A T R E Factual not fictitious Entertaining Appealing to the emotions Timely or not timely Unusual Reader-oriented Explanation, Extrapolation-projecting known info
- 5. Functions of Features 1. Profile people who make news 2. Analyze what’s happening in the world, nation, or community 3. Suggest better ways to live 4. Teach an audience how to do something What do Features do?
- 6. 5. Examine trends 6. Explain events that move or shape the news 7. Entertain
- 8. The Human-Interest Feature • The most common of the feature articles. • It describes some unusual aspect of the life of an ordinary human being, an aspect which makes him or her interesting.
- 9. • Some times the story reports success in spite of great odds. • Sometimes it recalls a tragic predicament. • Sometimes it shares a continuing struggle supported only by hope and faith. • Dramatic or touchy
- 10. The News Feature • A human-interest focus on breaking news results in a news feature, an article which adds personal involvement. • An interview with the parents of a soldier wounded in an overseas battle brings personal emotion into the report of an event in which readers may have no other involvement.
- 11. Profile or Personality Sketch • The main character may be known or unknown but will have done something of interest to others. • Maybe the person developed a product that has become an international retail item; learned to overcome shyness and became a political candidate; travels to school each day on roller skates.
- 12. • Usually the personality feature show how a person gained recognition. • In short, they could be leaders, achievers, celebrities, or the man on the street
- 13. The How-To Feature • The how-to feature is not much more than a process analysis article • it usually takes a do-it-yourself approach • Also know as practical guides
- 14. Travelogue • This type of feature discuss places in general; it also includes interesting things such as the place’s culture, food and fashion.
- 15. Oddities and Trending Stories • Features bizarre, unusual, odd, extraordinary things. • Feature people, things, or organizations having an impact on society. Ex. Latest fads
- 16. Structure or parts: 1. Title – “come-on” head 2. Lead (feature lead) – 1st sentence or paragraph of the story 3. Body – development of the story HOW TO WRITE THE FEATURE
- 18. Startling statement “Hindi pa kami laos!” Thus exclaimed the young once; teachers, administrators, parents, community and barangay members as they set aside one special day during the school’s celebration of Foundation Day to have a share of festivities, and of course to display their hidden talents.
- 19. Narrative Opening Mrs. Adelfa Prado, a fourth year evening student sends herself and her six children to school, acting as mother and father at the same time. Every day, Mrs. Prado takes her tentative place between the half-time “tindera” tending her sari-sari store during the day and the half-time student studying at night.
- 20. Quoted Remarks “I earn while I learn.” She smiled at me as the interview reeled off. “How can you work, have a part-time job, and at the same time go to school,” I asked. “Well, it is easy,” she explained. “I don’t do all of these at the same time.”
- 21. Maxim/Aphorism “Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.” This quotation from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coloridge does not hold true any more. Today, even flood water can quench the thirst. How?
- 22. History or Background of the subject Islams throughout the world, including our Filipino Muslim brothers observe the holy month of Ramadan starting Sept. 17. Ramadan is the ninth lunar month of the Muslim calendar. It is observed by Muslims as the Lenten Season is commemorated by Christians.
- 23. Problems to be discussed in the article This is an answer to the rising cost of vegetables: raise your own.
- 24. ORGANIZATION OF IDEAS Following the laws of Progressive Reader Involvement: 1. Tease me. 2. Tell me what you are up to. 3. Prove it. 4. Help me remember it.
- 25. Sources of Feature Article Ideas (Seeds of Writing) 1. Topic File – collection of topics 2. File of Ideas – compilation, album 3. Interviews 4. Observation – have the nose for news and nose for features 5. Personal Experience 6. Printed Materials – books, newspapers, magazines 7. Rich media or multi-media
- 26. HOW TO WRITE the Feature
- 27. • Choose an interesting topic • Narrow down your subject to a specific area. • Give it a tentative title. • Make your outline. • Highlight the important things you wish to feature.
- 28. • Focus on the main or most important feature with the specific details. Use the data you have gathered. • Use devices such as figures of speech, idioms, quotations, surveys, statistics, interviews, anecdotes.
- 29. • Apply the principles of paragraph development: – Unity (paragraphs should be built around a topic sentence ) – Coherence (Orderly arrangement of ideas) – Emphasis (dominant play up of one idea or the balance treatment of all the aspects of the subject.
- 30. • Read what you have written. Pay attention to what must be deleted or added. • Rewrite your piece. • Give it a catchy title. • Make the final copy.
- 31. Human Interest Feature Article sample: George, he’s a hero! By Emilyn Martinez
- 32. IT IS “natural” for women to be lavanderas if that is the best thing that they can do for a living, but have you heard of a guy who does laundry to support his family? Well, there is such an unusual guy in our school.
- 33. George Francis, a 17-year-old junior, has taken on the difficult responsibility of providing for his little sister and brother. He is father and mother to them, since both his parents are deceased. His three other sisters have their own families. Fortunately, his youngest brother is cared for by an aunt.
- 34. To be able to feed his siblings and send them to school, George does the laundry of a family in Moriones. Saturdays he washes their week’s laundry and Sundays, he irons them, a back- breaking job that assures him P400 a week. And for schooldays, at 5 p.m., when his classes are over, he cleans the house of his amo for a monthly wage of P500. In one month, he earns a total of P2,100 which he says is enough for their food, daily baon and monthly rent of P300.
- 35. “I’ve been doing this for three years now,” he says. “Mahirap, pero nasanay na ako (It’s hard but I’m already used to it).” Despite his work, he manages to get good grades. And although he has so much to do, he does his share of the housework because he doesn’t want to tire out his brother and sister “I want them to concentrate on their studies,” he says.
- 36. George Francis is only one of our many students who must struggle daily in order to survive. If Rhona Mahilom, the girl from Negros who saved her younger sisters and brothers when their house caught fire, is a hero, George is a hero for saving his sister and brother from starvation, for giving them a home and family to afford them the security they badly need in their formative years. George’s touching story serves as an inspiration to us. We give you, George, a big round of applause. We are proud of you and may your tribe increase.
- 37. Ending the Feature article A summary of the whole article MAKINIG ka sa dalubhasa: ang paninigarilyo ay lubhang masama sa kalusugan. Maaring maturingan kang tunay na lalaki dahil sa paninigarilyo mo, subalit hindi tatagal ang buhay mo upang mapatunayan mo ang iyong pagkalalaki.
- 38. An announcement of the main point for the first time THEREFORE, a major part of the development communications effort should be directed at strengthening the character of the people and developing in them moral values, particularly by self-discipline, self-reliance, strength of character, and fortitude.
- 39. A question left in the reader’s mind ANG KAMAY ng makabagong Pilipino ay handang marumihan. Pinaiikoit niya ang gulong ng pangkaunlaran. Iwina-wagayway niya ang bandila ng kalayaan—kalayaan laban sa paghihikahos, at kalayaan sa kamangmangan.
- 40. Suggested results or significance LET US conserve our forests now if we want to save the future of our country and of our children. A forecast or prophecy IN SIX-AND-A-HALF centuries from now, if population explosion would not be checked, there would be one person standing on every square foot of land on earth. By that time, people would be devouring one another for there would be no more space for plants to grow.
- 41. A repetition of the introduction ASKED if he had formal training in photography, Lovely Sepe finally answered, “Ah, it is now the reverse. It is here where I learn as I earn, not earn as I learn.” (the lead of the feature article is, “I learn while I earn).
- 42. An appropriate quotation NESTOR claims that he is poor. But when asked why he gave his last centavo to the old man, he answered: “Not what we give, but what we share For the gift, without the giver is bare, Who gives himself with his alms feeds three Himself, his hungering neighbor and me.”
- 43. WRITESHOP: 1. Think of an unusual person, place or thing or idea encountered – something that is bizarre or extraordinary. Write an oddity. 2. Think about an interesting hobby or collection then feature its beauty, significance or value. 3. Recall an unforgettable trip, travel or experience. Feature it in such a way as to entertain your readers.