2. ITS CONCEPTS AND NATURE
FEATURE STORY:
• A feature story is an interesting article that focuses
on certain people, places, events, or subject matters
like career, relationships, money, health, lifestyle,
among others
• a writer is “ free as a bird” in crafting his ideas, in
weaving his ideas and in presenting his ideas.
3. • Feature articles are
longer, more in-depth and
more elaborate than hard
news stories.
• They make use of the
upright triagle style
rather than the inverted
triangle approach most of
the time.
• Feature sories are lodge
under the umbrella of
journalism, whose
foundations are facts,
facts and facts.
• Hence, feature stories are
not opinion essays or
editorials and shoud not
be confused with creative
writing or works of fiction.
4. • A feature story primarily
banks on special human
interest that may or may
not be closely tied to a
recent news event.
• It goes into great detail
regarding concepts and
ideas of specific market of
interest.
5. TAKE THIS COMPARISON
A feature story is like a spotlight in a concert hall. Everyone in the
concert hall may become the subject. Once the spotlight strikes a
member of the audience, he or she becomes distinct and eventually
grabs the attention of everyone.
According to Okoye(2012), a feature story is an in-depth
and factual write-up on a topical issue which seeks to give
comprehension information in a more captivating and
relaxed style than straight news.
6. Reuters Handbook of Journalism says that feature story is “
...an insight into a trend or an issue or personality. It
enlightens the reader about that trend, issue or personality in
abroad context. It uses specific examples to illustrate that
trend or issue and puts them in a broad framework that
allows the social, ecomics, corporate and/or political
implications to shine through, whether sectoral, natonal or
global”
7. A feature article, therefore, relates to so many forms and subjects.
• It’s forms include narrative stories, poems, essays tales, anecdotes
and others.
• It’s subjects, on the other hand, may include love, hatred, jealousy,
emotions, war, friendship, and other human forms and
experiences.
• With its diverse form, many campus papers believe that feature
page is the same with literary page. That is why there are campus
papers which have a section titled as “literary/feature” page.
8. • It must be clear to both beginning and developing
campus papers that literary and features are NOT
similar.
9. FEATURE STORIES
CHARACTERISTICS OF
01
02
Variety of subject matter
Variety of tones
The kindling of the reader’s interest on such a
topic primarily depends on the writer’s creativity
on using the language.
The feature writer may use variety of dynamic tone, say a
creepy story, exciting narration, suspensive drama, angry
letter, morbid experience and the like.
10. 03
04
Variety of form and style
Feature stories may use any form and any style depending
on the writer’s judicious judgement to capture easily the
reader’s attention.
Well-organized
A feature story is actually an essay. Therefore, it
follows a general format of having an
introduction, body and ending.
11. 05
06
Strikes keynotes in a first sentence
The secret of arousing reader’s attention is to intrigue him
at the beginning. That is why feature stories need to be
very striking at the first part.
May or may not be timely
Unlike news articles, feature stories may skip immediacy
because it is up for the writer’s dexterous use of the
language to make antiquated subject rise from the tomb
and capture the attention of the current readers.
12. FEATURE FLOURISHES IN :
1.
3.
4.
5.
2.
COLOR
FANCY
WIT AND HUMOR
ANECDOTES
QOUTATIONS
13. QUALITIES OF A WELL-
WRITTEN FEATURE STORY
Well- researched
Catchy
Descriptive
Exciting
Reflective
Emotional
Engaging
Neutral
Thorough
If defining news were a hard task for many writers due to its many perspectives, feature stories would be less difficult. Many writers agree on the concepts and nature of feature stories.
first bullet after reading- because it is so elaborative
second bullet- Again, redundant as it may, feature writing breaks the box of rules where writing is incarcerated.
first bullet before reading- With such a concept in mind, you may think that...
third bullet before reading- However, as a writer, you must still keep in mind that...
In conclusion, writing a feature is a war of creativity on the use of language. It is so stylistic that it entails a writer’s constant reading and interminable practice.
no.1 before reading- as discussed previously, a feature story can take any topic under the sun.
no.2 - since feature stories are meant to entertain other han to inform...
no. 3 after reading- one may use acrostics or literary techniques in crafting stories, as long as the content is factual
no.4 after reading- its contents, like all other pieces of writing, should be logically arranged such that a smooth flow of ideas is attained. hence, it still follows the rules of thumb in effective writing
no.5 after reading- it does not neccesarily mean, though, that the first sentence summarizes the important details in the first sentence like in the straight news, if one does this, suspense is forfeited, excitement is lost.
overall, these qualities are crucial because they ensure that feature stories are captivating and impactful for readers,also it will enhance the ability to inform, entertain and evoke emotion within the audiences or readers
