Feature Writing: A Practical Introduction / Edition 1

by Susan Pape, Susan Featherstone

Overview

This book provides a practical and richly informative introduction to feature writing and the broader context in which features journalists operate. As well as covering the key elements and distinctive features that constitute good feature writing, Feature Writing: A Practical Introduction also offers a rich resource of real life examples, case studies, and exercises. Authors Susan Pape and Sue Featherstone have drawn on their considerable shared experience to provide a solid and engaging grounding in the principles and practice of feature writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412908009
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/27/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

Susan has been a journalist for more than 30 years and has worked for regional and national newspapers and magazines, and in regional television. She has strong links with the regional media and with the National Council for the Training of Journalists – with whom she has worked as an assessor. She is also a former judge of the Yorkshire Press Awards. Susan is Course Leader in Postgraduate Print and Magazine Journalism.

The two books she co-authored are written in a practical, how-to style and designed to appeal to journalism students and trainee journalists.

Susan has acted as External Examiner at Darlington College - part of Teesside University - and has been an external member on programme approval and validation panels for Glasgow Caledonian University and Sheffield Hallam University.

Table of Contents

What is a feature?
Sourcing the feature
Interviewing
What features should contain
The difference between news and features
Language and structure
Different types of features
Writing personal columns
Writing reviews
Specialist features
Commissioning features
Why feature writers become feature writers