Three little words smushed together, but that's the first hit I found when I goggled for "quotations in features stories." It led to a website which explained that feature stories -- and that's what ZU Mirror is all about -- "can range from people to places, technology to trends, and local color to contemporary culture; but at the heart of all feature stories is human interest." So what's in a "feature story"?
*Feature stories are descriptive and full of detail.
*Feature stories generally have a strong narrative line (translation: tell a story).
*Feature stories have a strong lead that grabs readers and makes them want to read on.
*Feature stories include quotations from the person(s) involved.
*Feature stories combine facts and opinion with a focus on the human interest side of the story. While they can report the news, the news content is not of primary importance.
*Feature stories both educate and entertain. They can include colorful detail as well as humor.
*Feature stories contain the voice of the writer (that means your personality can come across).
*Feature stories can be organized in a variety of ways(Ex: as it happened or as a narrative --once upon a time).
*Feature stories often put the "meat" on the "skeletal bones" of a news story.
--- Courtesy Readwritethink.org.
What I just did was "attribution," giving credit to the source of the information.
So how much human interest is in the story you're working on?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
We are glad you found what you were looking for at ReadWriteThink. Let us know if you have ideas for other lesson plans or assignments. Thanks - lisa
Lisa Storm Fink
Project Manager
ReadWriteThink
I just finished writing the fashion show story, it has aspects of a feature story. I tried to send it through groupwise, but as usual its not working!
Thanks Dr. J for the points
Its all true what you said about feature stories, I wrote one feature story about breast cancer in one of my courses and it was focusing on a strong lead that would grab the reader's attention and in the 2nd paragraph I mentioned whats our feature of this breast cancer what can we do to persuade people to enjoy reading our story, For e.x
To speak with some of these brave women who suffered from breast cancer is to feel sadness, wonder, and amazement at their strength, character, and courage.
I truly believe what you have mentioned about feature stories.. i think i have to show this to my friends in the writing class :D
Amzain
It's really important to know the differences between news story, interview and the feature story. changing in the order or the language can make a different story.
Post a Comment