This document provides guidance on writing feature stories for campus journalism. It discusses different types of feature stories such as personality profiles, experiences, descriptions, and how-to guides. It also offers suggestions for introducing and ending feature stories, including using rhetorical questions, startling statements, or narratives. The document outlines qualities of a good feature writer and steps for writing a feature article, such as choosing a subject and developing the lead, body, and conclusion.

1. CAMPUS JOURNALISM
Sara Jessica L. Carillo

2. What should be written in Feature story?
Personalities/ character sketch
- Usually Short
- Emphasize more on the person.
Experience and Adventure
- Featurettes
- First person point of view

3. Description
- Simple words / concrete words
- Factual and Original
Narratives
- Historical
- Not always adventure and experiences

4. Backgrounders
- Background of a certain event
Developmental feature article
- Developmental
What to Do and How to Do
- Usually explains a process

5. How to Introduce the Feature Article?
Rhetorical Questions
Example:
- Who says age is a hindrance to Education?
Startling Statement
Example:
- “Hindi kami Bato!”

6. Narrative Opening
Example:
- Mrs. Alicia Banal, a third-year evening students
sends herself and her 13 children to school, acting as
a mother and a father at the same time.
Quoted Marks
Example:
- “ I learn while I earn”. She smiled despite of the
negative issues thrown to her outside and inside her
work in show business.

7. An old Maxim, an Aphorism or “Salawikain”
Examples:
- “ Trees, trees everywhere, but no fresh air to breathe”
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…

8. Problems to be discussed in the article or the facts to
be established
Example:
- There is an answer on the rising cost of vegetables:
raise your own.

9. Ending a Feature Article
A summary of whole article
Example:
Take it from the experts: Smoking is definitely
harmful to health. Smoking makes you manly, but
you may not live long enough to be one.

10. An announcement of the Main Point for the first
time
Example:
Therefore, a major part of the development
communication effort should be directed at
strengthening the character of the people.

11. A question left in the reader’s mind
Example:
The hands of the new Filipino toil for the love of
creation. They …
Do you have these kinds of hands?

12. Suggested results or significance
Example:
Let us conserve our forests now if we want to
save the future of our country and of our children.

13. A forecast or prophecy
Example:
In six and a half centuries for now, if the
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 no be more
space for plants to grow.

14. A repetition of introduction
Example:
Asked if he had any formal training in
photography Donato Arellano finally answered, “Ah,
it is now the reverse. It is here where I enjoy while I
earn, not I earn while I enjoy.

15. An appropriate quotation
Example:
Ana claims that she is poor. But when
asked why she gave her last centavo to the old woman,
she 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.”

16. Qualities of a Good Feature Writer
1. Able to write
2. Creative
3. Has Keen Interest in Life
4. Realizes that in every event there could be possible
feature story.
5. Willing to probe for feature stories beneath the
surface of everyday events
6. Intellectually curious
7. Keen Observer

17. Steps in writing a Feature Article
1) Pick your Subject
2) Limit Subject to specific areas
3) Write a tentative title
4) Spot light the main things you aim to do in
the feature
5) Pinpoint the highlights with specific details
6) Use the device and situations which will
hold the reader’s interest

18. 6) Use the device and situations which will
hold the reader’s interest
7) Decide on your title
8) Prepare copy

19. Writing Feature
A. Lead
 News Summary Lead
 Distinctive Incident
 Quotation
 Short sentence
 Question Lead
 Analogy Lead
 Picture Lead
 Janus- Faced lead

20. Writing Feature
B. Body
 3 Principles
1. Unity
2. Coherence
3. Emphasis
C. Conclusion
 Climax or Highest point
 Cutback or flashback to the introduction