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Fall 2020 JOU 3304 9th Class Presentation September 21, 2020
- 1. JOU 3304 Sports Writing Professor Michael Rizzo Director, Journalism Program Division of Mass Communication Collins College of Professional Studies September 21, 2020
- 2. JOU 3304 Sports Writing Last Class - September 17 Feature stories
- 3. JOU 3304 Sports Writing Today Moe on features Start Baseball
- 4. Recap Features take audiences to places and show them people and things that they couldn’t reach on their own Give readers a story with something new and something they don’t know Be descriptive Provide characters and dialogue
- 5. The best feature stories tug at the heartstrings. Most feature stories: • stand alone • can run at any time but are often “hooked” to current news events • inform, educate or entertain • profile a person but can explore innovations, trends or issues.
- 6. The human interest angle fills readers’ natural curiosity about other people. We wonder: how does/did so-and-so think, feel, overcome obstacles, failed or succeeded? Features stir emotions in the reader by conveying emotional information about the subject.
- 7. The unusual makes features stand out as worthy of the reader’s time. Have you found a person or an aspect of the person out of the ordinary? Is what they did or what happened a rarity? Was it unusual enough to engage the reader?
- 8. Focus your feature on the person or topic, drawing the audience in with anecdotes, word pictures or an unusual circumstance. Features are NOT the place for summary leads. You’ll tell the 5Ws eventually but be creative in how you start your story.
- 10. Readers want a solid ending for a feature. The ending does not have to wrap up the plot but should connect back to lead. Like good books, readers are often disappointed if a feature ends without a conclusion that connects with the focus. How do you write it?
- 11. Like game stories, your ending can be another fact, a quote or even something that looks ahead. But consider adding something unexpected. Is there a surprise you can spring on the reader? Is there an “outrageous” anecdote to add? Is there something else that’s “amazing” to finish with?
- 15. Read all three of these features which are posted on BlackBoard. Choose the one you would name the winner of a contest on sports feature stories and explain why in one paragraph of no more than four sentences. Enter your decision and comments in BlackBoard.
- 17. For Thursday Sept. 24, 2020: Read Pages 123-136 of the textbook which is the chapter/section titled: BASEBALL