Creative manners:
writing feature articles
Feature story: its concept and nature
▸ A feature story is an interesting article that
focuses on certain people, places, events, or
subject matter.
▸ A writer is “free as a bird.”
▸ Feature writing breaks the box of rules where
news writing is incarcerated.
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Feature story: its concept and nature
▸ A feature story is like a spotlight in a
concert.
▸ Writing a feature story is a war of
creativity on the use of language.
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Characteristics of
feature stories
Variety of subject matter
▸ A feature story can take any topic under the
sun.
▸ The reader’s interest on such topic depends on
the writer’s creativity using the language.
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Variety of tones
▸ A writer must use variety of dramatic tone.
Ex. A creepy story
Exciting narration
Suspense drama
Angry letter
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Variety of form and style
▸ A feature writer may use acrostic or
literary techniques in crafting stories, as
long as the content is factual.
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Well-organized
▸ A feature story is actually an essay.
▸ It still follows the rules of thumb in
effective writing.
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Strikes keynotes in a first sentence
▸ Intrigue the readers at the beginning.
▸ The first sentence summarizes the
important details like the straight news.
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May or may not be timely
▸ Feature story may skip immediacy.
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Qualities of a well-
written feature story
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▸ Well-researched
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▸catchy
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▸descriptive
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▸exciting
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▸reflective
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▸emotional
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▸engaging
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▸neutral
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Hard news and feature story contrasted
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News story
Starts with a Should
lead Should be follow the
composed of timely. inverted
5 W’s and H. triangle.
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News story
Written in Meant to
Focuses on
inform and
the theme of third straight to
the story. person. the point.
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feature story
It can be
Focuses on Does not first or
who, what, to be second
and why. current. person
POV.
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This is a slide title
▸ Here you have a list of items
▸ And some text
▸ But remember not to overload your slides with
content
Your audience will listen to you or read the content, but
won’t do both.
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Big concept
Bring the attention of your audience over a key
concept using icons or illustrations
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You can also split your content
White Black
Is the color of milk and fresh Is the color of coal, ebony, and of
snow, the color produced by the outer space. It is the darkest
combination of all the colors of color, the result of the absence of
the visible spectrum. or complete absorption of light.
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In two or three columns
Yellow Blue Red
Is the color of gold, butter Is the colour of the clear Is the color of blood, and
and ripe lemons. In the sky and the deep sea. It is because of this it has
spectrum of visible light, located between violet historically been
yellow is found between and green on the optical associated with sacrifice,
green and orange. spectrum. danger and courage.
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A picture is worth a thousand words
A complex idea can be
conveyed with just a single
still image, namely making it
possible to absorb large
amounts of data quickly.
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And tables to compare data
A B C
Yellow 10 20 7
Blue 30 15 10
Orange 5 24 16
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That’s a lot of money
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And a lot of users
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Our process is easy
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Let’s review some concepts
Yellow Blue Red
Is the color of gold, butter and ripe Is the colour of the clear sky and the Is the color of blood, and because of
lemons. In the spectrum of visible light, deep sea. It is located between violet this it has historically been associated
yellow is found between green and and green on the optical spectrum. with sacrifice, danger and courage.
orange.
Yellow Blue Red
Is the color of gold, butter and ripe Is the colour of the clear sky and the Is the color of blood, and because of
lemons. In the spectrum of visible light, deep sea. It is located between violet this it has historically been associated
yellow is found between green and and green on the optical spectrum. with sacrifice, danger and courage.
orange.
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Mobile project
Show and explain your web,
app or software projects Place your screenshot here
using these gadget
templates.
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Tablet project
Show and explain your web,
app or software projects Place your screenshot here
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templates.
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Desktop project
Show and explain your Place your screenshot here
web, app or software
projects using these
gadget templates.
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