A feature story is a type of journalism focused on human interest that aims to entertain, inform, instruct, or relate to human feelings. It should be factual, use concrete language, and include striking statements, quotations, episodes, or dialogues to engage readers. A news feature story is based on a recent event and emphasizes a certain point, while an information feature tells readers about a topic through interviews or research. A personality sketch profiles people who have attained success. A human interest story aims to elicit sympathy or interest by focusing on people and how they are affected by certain issues, problems, or achievements.
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.
This document discusses the key characteristics and components of feature articles. It notes that feature articles aim to entertain while potentially instructing or advising readers. They can vary in length and may or may not be timely. Feature articles typically begin with a novelty lead and use descriptive writing styles and quotes to engage readers. The document provides examples of opening and closing techniques for feature articles and lists qualities of effective feature writers such as being keen observers and having the ability to find interesting angles in everyday events.
1. The document provides information about copyreading and editing for a school-based journalism training workshop in Sarangani Division.
2. It discusses the types of editing including copyreading and proofreading. Copyreading is done on draft manuscripts before printing while proofreading is done on printed materials.
3. The document outlines the various functions of a copy reader including checking facts, editing for grammar and style, improving news value, writing headlines, and using copyediting marks for corrections.
A feature story is a news story written like a piece of short fiction that focuses on human interest. It emphasizes facts that evoke emotion in readers and profiles interesting people. Good feature writing requires both rigorous reporting and creative storytelling. Writers must find a compelling angle, use vivid details, and choose a voice that matches the tone and content. Effective feature leads draw readers in through techniques like narrative, description, striking statements, or novelty approaches like historical allusions. Strong organization and alternating quotes with transitions throughout helps maintain reader engagement.
Hello feature writers! This powerpoint presentation will give us an overview about feature writing. Included also here are the topics that you may use in creating your own feature article.
How to Write Effective Feature ArticlesJerry Noveno
This personal experience feature tells the story of the author's childhood memories sitting on her grandmother's lap on rainy days, listening to stories of her grandmother's struggles raising six children with little education after her husband died. The grandmother persevered in financing all the children's education despite neighbors mocking the effort. All six children succeeded in obtaining college degrees, with three becoming teachers, one a journalist and author, one an accountant, and one an engineer. The author takes pride in continuing the family tradition of academic excellence.
The document discusses the basics of copyediting and provides guidelines for editors. It explains that copyediting involves fact-checking, grammar editing, formatting stories consistently, and using standard symbols. The responsibilities of a copy editor include using a pencil for edits, typing "-30-" at story ends, and preparing headlines to summarize stories in a concise manner. Proper headline writing follows specific rules around grammar, style, and vocabulary to effectively communicate to readers.
This document provides information on feature writing, including the differences between hard news and soft news. It discusses the structure of feature stories and how they differ from traditional news stories. Feature writing combines factual reporting with creative writing techniques. The document outlines the key elements of feature writing, including developing the lead/introduction, body, and conclusion. It also provides examples of different types of feature topics and leads, and steps for developing a successful feature story from prewriting to proofreading.
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.
This document discusses the key characteristics and components of feature articles. It notes that feature articles aim to entertain while potentially instructing or advising readers. They can vary in length and may or may not be timely. Feature articles typically begin with a novelty lead and use descriptive writing styles and quotes to engage readers. The document provides examples of opening and closing techniques for feature articles and lists qualities of effective feature writers such as being keen observers and having the ability to find interesting angles in everyday events.
1. The document provides information about copyreading and editing for a school-based journalism training workshop in Sarangani Division.
2. It discusses the types of editing including copyreading and proofreading. Copyreading is done on draft manuscripts before printing while proofreading is done on printed materials.
3. The document outlines the various functions of a copy reader including checking facts, editing for grammar and style, improving news value, writing headlines, and using copyediting marks for corrections.
A feature story is a news story written like a piece of short fiction that focuses on human interest. It emphasizes facts that evoke emotion in readers and profiles interesting people. Good feature writing requires both rigorous reporting and creative storytelling. Writers must find a compelling angle, use vivid details, and choose a voice that matches the tone and content. Effective feature leads draw readers in through techniques like narrative, description, striking statements, or novelty approaches like historical allusions. Strong organization and alternating quotes with transitions throughout helps maintain reader engagement.
Hello feature writers! This powerpoint presentation will give us an overview about feature writing. Included also here are the topics that you may use in creating your own feature article.
How to Write Effective Feature ArticlesJerry Noveno
This personal experience feature tells the story of the author's childhood memories sitting on her grandmother's lap on rainy days, listening to stories of her grandmother's struggles raising six children with little education after her husband died. The grandmother persevered in financing all the children's education despite neighbors mocking the effort. All six children succeeded in obtaining college degrees, with three becoming teachers, one a journalist and author, one an accountant, and one an engineer. The author takes pride in continuing the family tradition of academic excellence.
The document discusses the basics of copyediting and provides guidelines for editors. It explains that copyediting involves fact-checking, grammar editing, formatting stories consistently, and using standard symbols. The responsibilities of a copy editor include using a pencil for edits, typing "-30-" at story ends, and preparing headlines to summarize stories in a concise manner. Proper headline writing follows specific rules around grammar, style, and vocabulary to effectively communicate to readers.
This document provides information on feature writing, including the differences between hard news and soft news. It discusses the structure of feature stories and how they differ from traditional news stories. Feature writing combines factual reporting with creative writing techniques. The document outlines the key elements of feature writing, including developing the lead/introduction, body, and conclusion. It also provides examples of different types of feature topics and leads, and steps for developing a successful feature story from prewriting to proofreading.
This document provides information on writing feature articles. It defines a feature article as a human interest story that focuses on people, places, and events in great detail rather than being tied to recent news. Feature articles are more creative and in-depth than news articles. The document outlines the differences between news and feature articles and discusses the characteristics, types, and process for writing feature articles. It emphasizes that feature articles require a different thought process than news articles and are structured differently, focusing on narrative rather than the inverted pyramid structure of news articles.
This document provides guidance on writing feature stories. It explains that feature stories offer readers something different from standard news stories by including explanations, background, and the writer's impressions. Good feature stories display the qualities of surprise, strong storylines, and stylish writing. When planning a feature story, writers should determine the purpose and intended audience. The tone of writing allows flexibility in how the personality of the article is conveyed. Proper word choices and descriptive details, like sensory details, imagery, and conveyed feelings, help bring the writer's experience to life for readers. Strong feature writing also has a clear structure including an engaging introduction, cohesive body, and overall impression.
This document discusses how to write a column. It begins by defining a column as a regularly appearing article on a particular subject in a newspaper or magazine. It then lists different types of columns such as political, entertainment, humorous, health/educational, and advice columns. The document outlines that an effective column has a beginning, middle, and conclusion. The beginning should introduce the topic with an interesting point or current news item. The middle should back up any opinions with facts, examples, or quotations. The conclusion should relate back to the introduction and leave the reader with something to think about by summarizing the main opinion. Finally, it notes some properties of a good column, such as being factual, topical, and
The presentation is a brief introduction to news writing in campus publications. It tackles the theory of social responsibility and advocacy in journalism.
This document discusses the key characteristics and components of a feature story. It defines a feature story as an in-depth look at current issues and events that aims to explain why and how trends are occurring. The dominant purpose is to entertain readers. Good feature stories exhibit creativity, human interest, factual content, entertainment value, timelessness, and variety in tone and style. They are structured with an attention-grabbing lead, coherent body paragraphs, and impactful conclusion. Common types of feature stories include informative, human interest, trend, how-to, personality profiles, personal experiences, humorous, interpretive, seasonal, and travelogue stories.
This document provides an overview of feature writing. It discusses the differences between news and features, noting that features have more flexibility in structure and timeline. It then lists common feature story types like trends, human interest, profiles, how-to's, and behind-the-scenes pieces. The document provides tips for writing features, such as using a single person's perspective, focusing on an incident or anecdote, employing startling statements or dialogue, and using setting to establish theme. It also discusses incorporating facts, figures, quotes, analysis, atmosphere and description into features.
This document provides an overview of feature writing. It defines feature writing as an in-depth look at a person, situation, or place that is not breaking news. Feature stories make the familiar new and the new familiar by exploring overlooked or underappreciated topics. The primary purposes of feature writing are to entertain, explain, teach, suggest, examine, narrate, tickle, comment, and analyze trends. Various types of features are described, including news features, personality profiles, human interest stories, and investigative features. Guidelines for crafting effective feature stories discuss using short sentences and paragraphs, easy words, personal words, active verbs, transitions, quotes, and more. The thinking and writing process for features is also outlined.
This document provides guidance on structuring a feature article. It discusses including a strong lead paragraph to hook the reader, followed by a "nut graph" that summarizes the main point. The body should alternate between quotes and observations to tell the story. It can have a chronological, narrative, or other structure. The ending should tie back to the beginning or leave things unresolved. Proper structure helps turn interviews and facts into an engaging narrative that readers will enjoy.
The document provides guidance on writing compelling feature stories. It discusses focusing stories on individual people through their eyes or on specific incidents or settings to grab readers. It offers tips like using startling statements or dialogue in leads. Sample high school writing is critiqued and improved versions shown focusing more on people and anecdotes. The document also outlines the typical structure of feature stories, beginning with a lead paragraph to engage readers followed by a "billboard" to explain the topic.
The document provides guidance on science writing. It discusses that science writing is meant for a general audience to make science approachable. An effective science writer tells an interesting story that further investigates the world around us. Science writing is a conversation between writer and reader to communicate information in an enthusiastic way. The key aspects of science writing are clear communication, anticipating reader understanding, connecting scientists with the public, and reporting on topics that affect people's lives.
This document discusses guidelines for writing effective headlines. It defines what a headline is, its functions, and qualities of a good headline. It provides tips on headline writing such as using the subject-verb-object structure, active voice, shortest words, and downstyle formatting. It also discusses headline vocabulary, counts, schedules and other technical terms related to writing headlines that effectively summarize news stories.
This document provides an overview of editorial writing. It defines an editorial and its characteristics, including being factual, interesting, concise, and timely. It describes different types of editorials such as those that provide information, interpretation, argumentation, criticism, and persuasion. It also discusses commendation editorials and those for special occasions. The document outlines the typical structure of an editorial, including an engaging beginning, news peg, body to discuss the issue, and a conclusion. It concludes with tips for choosing topics and writing an effective editorial.
After establishing basic literacy in a student's first language, reading instruction should focus on developing sub-skills like decoding, skimming, scanning, and inferring through activities done before, during, and after reading. Writing instruction starts with developing fine motor skills and consolidating oral work, then provides frameworks to guide initial writing, with feedback that focuses first on content and then on correcting language aspects.
Hi, this is Jane, please feel free to make my presentation as your reference in learning the subject matter. may this help you understand feature writing even more.
you are free to give suggestions and comments.
An editorial cartoon is an illustration that uses techniques like exaggeration, symbolism, labeling, analogy, and irony to critique current events and personalities. They aim to question authority and draw attention to social and political issues through satire and hyperbole. Political cartoons originated in the 1700s in Britain and gained popularity during historical events like the French Revolution. They provide historians with insights into past attitudes and values. Effective cartoons employ persuasive techniques to express an opinion on an issue in a simple but insightful way.
1) Features are longer form articles that provide context and humanize news stories by adding color, educating readers, and entertaining. They often recap major news from a previous news cycle.
2) Common types of features include personality profiles, human interest stories, trend stories, in-depth analyses, and backgrounders.
3) Feature writers use narrative storytelling techniques like chronology, first-person perspectives, and ending where the lead began to engage readers. Thorough research and a clear focus or theme are important for effective feature writing.
This document defines key parts and pages of a newspaper including the front page, editorial page, feature page, and literary page. It describes common elements of newspaper pages like nameplates, headlines, bylines, columns, photos, and captions. It also discusses principles of excellent newspaper layout design such as unity, balance, emphasis, proportion, movement, and contrast. Layout is described as the arrangement of text, graphics, and photos on a page. The document outlines best practices and issues to avoid in layout like tombstoning, bad breaks, separating related content, and disproportionate or excessive emphasis.
This document provides guidance on writing feature stories. It discusses that feature stories focus on people, places, events or subjects in an elaborate way. It notes that feature stories can cover a variety of topics and tones and should be well-organized, engaging and use techniques like quotes, anecdotes and descriptions. The document also outlines the stages of writing a feature story, including pre-writing, writing and post-writing, and provides tips for crafting introductions, bodies, conclusions and titles for feature stories.
Feature writing aims to humanize, educate, entertain and illuminate rather than just report news. It explains or analyzes past news, profiles people, documents trends, or provides how-to guides. Features are longer than news stories and do not follow the inverted pyramid structure. They hook readers through vivid details, quotes and background throughout the story. Choosing a theme asks if the story has been done, is interesting, and has emotional appeal. The lead may not summarize but sets a mood through vivid paragraphs. Later, a "nut graph" explains the story's significance. Dialogue, voice and background information bring the story to life while a central thread connects its beginning, middle and end.
This document provides information on writing feature articles. It defines a feature article as a human interest story that focuses on people, places, and events in great detail rather than being tied to recent news. Feature articles are more creative and in-depth than news articles. The document outlines the differences between news and feature articles and discusses the characteristics, types, and process for writing feature articles. It emphasizes that feature articles require a different thought process than news articles and are structured differently, focusing on narrative rather than the inverted pyramid structure of news articles.
This document provides guidance on writing feature stories. It explains that feature stories offer readers something different from standard news stories by including explanations, background, and the writer's impressions. Good feature stories display the qualities of surprise, strong storylines, and stylish writing. When planning a feature story, writers should determine the purpose and intended audience. The tone of writing allows flexibility in how the personality of the article is conveyed. Proper word choices and descriptive details, like sensory details, imagery, and conveyed feelings, help bring the writer's experience to life for readers. Strong feature writing also has a clear structure including an engaging introduction, cohesive body, and overall impression.
This document discusses how to write a column. It begins by defining a column as a regularly appearing article on a particular subject in a newspaper or magazine. It then lists different types of columns such as political, entertainment, humorous, health/educational, and advice columns. The document outlines that an effective column has a beginning, middle, and conclusion. The beginning should introduce the topic with an interesting point or current news item. The middle should back up any opinions with facts, examples, or quotations. The conclusion should relate back to the introduction and leave the reader with something to think about by summarizing the main opinion. Finally, it notes some properties of a good column, such as being factual, topical, and
The presentation is a brief introduction to news writing in campus publications. It tackles the theory of social responsibility and advocacy in journalism.
This document discusses the key characteristics and components of a feature story. It defines a feature story as an in-depth look at current issues and events that aims to explain why and how trends are occurring. The dominant purpose is to entertain readers. Good feature stories exhibit creativity, human interest, factual content, entertainment value, timelessness, and variety in tone and style. They are structured with an attention-grabbing lead, coherent body paragraphs, and impactful conclusion. Common types of feature stories include informative, human interest, trend, how-to, personality profiles, personal experiences, humorous, interpretive, seasonal, and travelogue stories.
This document provides an overview of feature writing. It discusses the differences between news and features, noting that features have more flexibility in structure and timeline. It then lists common feature story types like trends, human interest, profiles, how-to's, and behind-the-scenes pieces. The document provides tips for writing features, such as using a single person's perspective, focusing on an incident or anecdote, employing startling statements or dialogue, and using setting to establish theme. It also discusses incorporating facts, figures, quotes, analysis, atmosphere and description into features.
This document provides an overview of feature writing. It defines feature writing as an in-depth look at a person, situation, or place that is not breaking news. Feature stories make the familiar new and the new familiar by exploring overlooked or underappreciated topics. The primary purposes of feature writing are to entertain, explain, teach, suggest, examine, narrate, tickle, comment, and analyze trends. Various types of features are described, including news features, personality profiles, human interest stories, and investigative features. Guidelines for crafting effective feature stories discuss using short sentences and paragraphs, easy words, personal words, active verbs, transitions, quotes, and more. The thinking and writing process for features is also outlined.
This document provides guidance on structuring a feature article. It discusses including a strong lead paragraph to hook the reader, followed by a "nut graph" that summarizes the main point. The body should alternate between quotes and observations to tell the story. It can have a chronological, narrative, or other structure. The ending should tie back to the beginning or leave things unresolved. Proper structure helps turn interviews and facts into an engaging narrative that readers will enjoy.
The document provides guidance on writing compelling feature stories. It discusses focusing stories on individual people through their eyes or on specific incidents or settings to grab readers. It offers tips like using startling statements or dialogue in leads. Sample high school writing is critiqued and improved versions shown focusing more on people and anecdotes. The document also outlines the typical structure of feature stories, beginning with a lead paragraph to engage readers followed by a "billboard" to explain the topic.
The document provides guidance on science writing. It discusses that science writing is meant for a general audience to make science approachable. An effective science writer tells an interesting story that further investigates the world around us. Science writing is a conversation between writer and reader to communicate information in an enthusiastic way. The key aspects of science writing are clear communication, anticipating reader understanding, connecting scientists with the public, and reporting on topics that affect people's lives.
This document discusses guidelines for writing effective headlines. It defines what a headline is, its functions, and qualities of a good headline. It provides tips on headline writing such as using the subject-verb-object structure, active voice, shortest words, and downstyle formatting. It also discusses headline vocabulary, counts, schedules and other technical terms related to writing headlines that effectively summarize news stories.
This document provides an overview of editorial writing. It defines an editorial and its characteristics, including being factual, interesting, concise, and timely. It describes different types of editorials such as those that provide information, interpretation, argumentation, criticism, and persuasion. It also discusses commendation editorials and those for special occasions. The document outlines the typical structure of an editorial, including an engaging beginning, news peg, body to discuss the issue, and a conclusion. It concludes with tips for choosing topics and writing an effective editorial.
After establishing basic literacy in a student's first language, reading instruction should focus on developing sub-skills like decoding, skimming, scanning, and inferring through activities done before, during, and after reading. Writing instruction starts with developing fine motor skills and consolidating oral work, then provides frameworks to guide initial writing, with feedback that focuses first on content and then on correcting language aspects.
Hi, this is Jane, please feel free to make my presentation as your reference in learning the subject matter. may this help you understand feature writing even more.
you are free to give suggestions and comments.
An editorial cartoon is an illustration that uses techniques like exaggeration, symbolism, labeling, analogy, and irony to critique current events and personalities. They aim to question authority and draw attention to social and political issues through satire and hyperbole. Political cartoons originated in the 1700s in Britain and gained popularity during historical events like the French Revolution. They provide historians with insights into past attitudes and values. Effective cartoons employ persuasive techniques to express an opinion on an issue in a simple but insightful way.
1) Features are longer form articles that provide context and humanize news stories by adding color, educating readers, and entertaining. They often recap major news from a previous news cycle.
2) Common types of features include personality profiles, human interest stories, trend stories, in-depth analyses, and backgrounders.
3) Feature writers use narrative storytelling techniques like chronology, first-person perspectives, and ending where the lead began to engage readers. Thorough research and a clear focus or theme are important for effective feature writing.
This document defines key parts and pages of a newspaper including the front page, editorial page, feature page, and literary page. It describes common elements of newspaper pages like nameplates, headlines, bylines, columns, photos, and captions. It also discusses principles of excellent newspaper layout design such as unity, balance, emphasis, proportion, movement, and contrast. Layout is described as the arrangement of text, graphics, and photos on a page. The document outlines best practices and issues to avoid in layout like tombstoning, bad breaks, separating related content, and disproportionate or excessive emphasis.
This document provides guidance on writing feature stories. It discusses that feature stories focus on people, places, events or subjects in an elaborate way. It notes that feature stories can cover a variety of topics and tones and should be well-organized, engaging and use techniques like quotes, anecdotes and descriptions. The document also outlines the stages of writing a feature story, including pre-writing, writing and post-writing, and provides tips for crafting introductions, bodies, conclusions and titles for feature stories.
Feature writing aims to humanize, educate, entertain and illuminate rather than just report news. It explains or analyzes past news, profiles people, documents trends, or provides how-to guides. Features are longer than news stories and do not follow the inverted pyramid structure. They hook readers through vivid details, quotes and background throughout the story. Choosing a theme asks if the story has been done, is interesting, and has emotional appeal. The lead may not summarize but sets a mood through vivid paragraphs. Later, a "nut graph" explains the story's significance. Dialogue, voice and background information bring the story to life while a central thread connects its beginning, middle and end.
The document provides information on writing effective headlines, feature stories, and news leads. It discusses using active voice and strong verbs in headlines. It lists example headline vocabulary. It defines what a news lead is and gives 6 rules for writing news leads, such as including the most newsworthy what, where, when in the first sentence. It lists topics for feature stories such as narratives, backgrounds, and personalities. It discusses the structure of feature stories and news stories.
This document provides an overview of feature writing. It discusses that feature writing aims to humanize stories, educate readers, and illuminate issues. Feature stories can be about profiles, trends, or "how to" guides. They do not need to follow the traditional inverted pyramid structure and can include observations, details, and background information throughout. When writing features, journalists should choose themes that are interesting to readers and have emotional appeal, and use techniques like strong leads, nut graphs to explain significance, dialogue, and voice to engage audiences.
This document provides guidance on how to write an effective editorial. It explains that an editorial takes a stance on an issue and offers a solution to a problem. It outlines the typical structure of an intro, three supporting reasons, a rebuttal to opposing views, a proposed solution, and a concluding recap. The document also notes common mistakes like not taking a clear position, using too many rhetorical questions, relying too heavily on quotes, going off-topic, or making personal attacks rather than credible arguments. The key is to make an interesting introduction, provide strong evidence, use active voice, offer balanced perspectives with a reasonable solution.
1. Scientists must clearly explain their work to both policymakers and the public in order to gain support and funding.
2. If scientists do not communicate the purpose and benefits of their research, others will not understand its importance.
3. The Technology Transfer Act aims to facilitate moving research from labs to the market by inspiring universities to conduct commercially viable studies and helping scientists commercialize their work.
The document provides an overview of feature stories and their characteristics. It defines a feature story as an in-depth article that explores issues behind news stories by focusing on background events, people, or circumstances rather than breaking news. It describes various types of feature stories and their key characteristics, such as variety in subject matter and tone, and being more descriptive and entertaining than news articles. The document also outlines best practices for writing feature stories, such as choosing interesting topics, using vivid language and quotes, and ensuring the conclusion ties together the full story.
The document provides guidance on writing editorials. It discusses the objectives and functions of editorials, as well as principles and types of editorials. The writing process is also outlined, including prewriting, drafting the introduction, body, and conclusion, and revising. Tips are provided such as choosing a simple style, using sound reasoning, and focusing on one point.
Types of news writing leads include:
- Summary leads that provide the central issue and allow readers to grasp the story from the lead.
- Question leads that use provocative questions to engage readers if directly relevant to them.
- Punchy or capsule leads that summarize the article in a short, blunt statement.
- Quotation leads that use an important quote from a source which is then explained in the article.
- Contrast leads that compare extremes to grab readers' attention.
This document discusses what constitutes news and provides guidance for writing news stories. It defines news as a report of recent events published in newspapers or broadcast on television. When deciding what qualifies as newsworthy, reporters should consider what is novel about the story and why readers should care. There are different types of news stories, including soft news that can wait for publication and features providing an in-depth profile. Stories are judged based on newsworthiness criteria like immediacy, prominence and human interest. Effective news writing adheres to qualities like objectivity, accuracy and fairness. Stories follow an inverted pyramid structure with the most essential details in the lead paragraph and additional context in subsequent paragraphs. Reporters are advised to use active voice, conc
This document provides guidance on writing feature articles. It discusses that feature articles add human interest and color to previously reported news in a more free-flowing way than straight news articles. It identifies types of feature articles such as personality profiles and in-depth issues stories. The document also outlines different types of introductions that can be used in feature articles, including anecdotal, contrast, quote, and question leads. It stresses including background information and quotes to engage readers.
Here is a 7-paragraph news story based on the interviews:
A fatal vehicular accident occurred along Dagupan Street in Cabiao, Nueva Ecija at around 10 in the morning today.
According to eyewitnesses, a red car speeding along Recto Avenue failed to stop at the intersection with Dagupan Street and collided with an oncoming cargo truck. Policeman Renato Aguila, who responded to the scene, said the driver of the truck claimed he lost his brakes and swerved left in an attempt to avoid hitting a pedestrian.
In the impact, the front side of the car was severely damaged. The passenger, later identified as 55-year-old Crisanta
Communicating effectively and consistently with students can help them feel at ease during their learning experience and provide the instructor with a communication trail to track the course's progress. This workshop will take you through constructing an engaging course container to facilitate effective communication.
How to Make a Field Mandatory in Odoo 17Celine George
In Odoo, making a field required can be done through both Python code and XML views. When you set the required attribute to True in Python code, it makes the field required across all views where it's used. Conversely, when you set the required attribute in XML views, it makes the field required only in the context of that particular view.
Temple of Asclepius in Thrace. Excavation resultsKrassimira Luka
The temple and the sanctuary around were dedicated to Asklepios Zmidrenus. This name has been known since 1875 when an inscription dedicated to him was discovered in Rome. The inscription is dated in 227 AD and was left by soldiers originating from the city of Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv).
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His expertise extends across a diverse spectrum of reporting, database, and web development applications, underpinned by an exceptional grasp of data storage and virtualization technologies. His proficiency in application testing, database administration, and data cleansing ensures seamless execution of complex projects.
What sets Denis apart is his comprehensive understanding of Business and Systems Analysis technologies, honed through involvement in all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). From meticulous requirements gathering to precise analysis, innovative design, rigorous development, thorough testing, and successful implementation, he has consistently delivered exceptional results.
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LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
core of India. Mirzapur, with its varied terrains and abundant biodiversity, offers an optimal
environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
more evident. A crucial element of this impact is the alteration of vegetation cover, which plays a
significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
these activities. As the most crucial natural resource, its utilization by humans results in different
'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
land.
The utilization of land is impacted by human needs and environmental factors. In countries
like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
centuries, evolving its structure over time and space. In the present era, these changes have
accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
cover is essential for various planning and management tasks related to the Earth's surface,
providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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Changes in vegetation cover refer to variations in the distribution, composition, and overall
structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
occur natural.
How to Setup Warehouse & Location in Odoo 17 InventoryCeline George
In this slide, we'll explore how to set up warehouses and locations in Odoo 17 Inventory. This will help us manage our stock effectively, track inventory levels, and streamline warehouse operations.
2. Feature Story
• It is defined by Hobenberg as a “writeup that
is based on that mysterious ingredient in
journalism called HUMAN INTEREST – an
event that appeals to us because we can
relate to it”.
• It is also called “soft news” w/c is more
concerned with human interest”.
3. Purposes
• To entertain
• To inform
• To instruct
• To relate to man’s inner feelings
4. Tips on Feature Writing
1. Be careful on your choice of subject.
2. The feature article should be factual, realistic
and credible.
3. Make ideas concrete, clear and simple.
4. Use striking statements both in the opening and
closing paragraphs, quotations, episodes,
anecdotes, dialogues, etc. to set the mood of
the story.
5. Use simple language to be understood better.
6. Keep the most important parts – the opening
and the closing paragraphs – interesting and
appealing to the readers.
5. News Feature Story
• It is based on a recent event.
• It aims to emphasize a certain point.
Tips on how to make a good news feature:
1. Find a topic that’s doable.
2. Find real people.
3. Get plenty of facts & stats.
4. Get the expert view.
5. Get the big picture.
6. Hard but Blessed Life
Written by: Mildred Julia Gonzales
BINAN, LAGUNA -- “Ma, we have a surprise for you,” Angelica exclaimed as she entered their home with her
younger brother Angelo. Both just arrived from school. Melinda, who was busy cooking, turned to see
them. “I am top 4 in our class! While Angelo is first honor,” Angelica said. Angelica, 14 years old, is currently
in 2nd year highschool in Jacobo Z. Gonzales Memorial High School, while Angelo, 10 years old, is a grade 3
student in Pagkakaisa Elementary School. Melinda showered her children with hugs and kisses. Aside from
Angelo and Angela, Melinda has two other children named Jefferson and Wilson who are also performing well
in school. Silently, she prayed, “thank you Lord for my diligent and bright children and for Pantawid Pamilya
for supporting our children’s school needs.”
For Melinda, life was bearable. Her husband, Nolasco, earned minimum wage at a factory and have enough
money to provide the basic needs of her four children. “We were poor then but we have enough money to
ensure that my children never had to skip a meal,” recalled Melinda. But the financial crisis that hit the country
in 2008 caused the factories to retrench and leave hundreds of workers including Nolasco without a job. To
deal with their financial crisis, Nolasco tried buying and selling scrap materials, while Melinda began
accepting laundry jobs. Anna, who was graduating high school at the time, was forced to stop schooling and
help Melinda in her laundry work. Now, without any stable source of income, their children’s education and
future were under peril.
Fortunately, they were chosen as one of the beneficiaries of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program in 2009. “I
really wouldn’t know what to do without the program. The cash grants help us provide for my children’s health
and education needs,” she said.
Melinda joyfully relayed.“There was a point when we almost succumb to self pity. Our earnings were never
enough no matter how hard we work. We even considered stopping Angelo and Angelica from schooling. Our
hope returned when we found out about the Pantawid Pamilya. Now, we promised to keep our children in
school despite our economic crisis,”
7. Pantawid Pamilya encourages their children to study harder. “I always tell them that it is because of Pantawid
Pamilya that they get to continue their education. Thus, they should not waste this opportunity and fulfill their
co-responsibility to the program, that is to never be absent in class,” shared Melinda.
Melinda receives P1,100 per month for the health and education needs of her children. The households’
counterpart to the program is their compliance to its conditions which include attendance of parents to family
development sessions, availing of regular health check-ups in health centers and for children to maintain a
school/daycare attendance rate of at least 85%.
Angelica’s dream is to be a teacher, while Angelo aims to be computer engineer. Melinda is grateful that
Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program gave her the opportunity to continue the education to her children and
hope that someday, they will be able to achieve their dreams. “I never heard of a computer engineer when I
was young because children grow old to be like their fathers, a driver or a worker. But now, whenever I hear
my children talk about their dreams. I feel that, maybe, through Pantawid Pamilya, those dreams can be
realized.”
The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program is a conditional cash transfer program that aims to improve the
quality of life of the poor by investing in their human capital. Currently, there are 4,450 household
beneficiaries in Laguna and 2,212,055 registered household beneficiaries nationwide. The objectives and
conditions of Pantawid Pamilya are anchored to meeting the Millennium Development Goals, namely,
eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, achievement of universal primary education, promotion of gender
equality, reduction of child mortality and improvement of maternal health.###(Pantawid Pamilya Social
Marketing Unit)
10. Good Guy Gone Better
Written by: Anjenelle Amante
At his best, he showers me with a myriad of things I call “favorites”, blurts out an oddly humorous punch
line and tells me hilarious stories about his escapades. At his worst, he’s nothing short of becoming an
ogre— his sneering voice and alarming appearance never fail to give me the chills.
“Learn to fight for yourself”, he would always say whenever some naughty kids try to make fun of me at
primary school. He’s always been the tough guy his classmates dreaded having to fight with. At the
same extent, however, he’s an example of what student delinquents are. Not that he’s done much harm
to his teachers and peers. He’s just more interested in playing basketball and mastering the skills of
online gaming than doing school stuff which he considered rubbish.
“Studying isn’t just my thing”, he just shrugged his shoulders when I asked why he didn’t even bother to
review his lessons. “I ought to be famous someday. Shooting the ball at crucial situations and bringing
home the most valuable player award.” He added with a surreal look on his face.
I admired the confidence with which he said those words. With his oozing determination, I was
convinced his dream would meet reality.
It was unfortunate that we had to be separated after he finished second year high school. He went to a
private secondary school somewhere in Alitagtag (a place which was an alien to me, really).
We didn’t actually lose touch. He would visit me in Lipa whenever he had time. But then, his occasional
visits had gone from seldom to never. I guess we were both busy with our studies. It was a good thing
that technological advances made communication between two people apart possible.
We finally got reunited during my first year in college. When I saw him again, I could sense that his lively
spirit and caring nature did not fade with time. He would still laugh crazily with the corniest joke, eat his
burger in two minutes flat, pour two tablespoons of sugar into his coffee and play basketball till his body
couldn’t take any more torture.
11. He has improved a lot. He began showing interest in his studies. Taking up BS Hotel and Restaurant
Management, he started taking control of his life (and doing a pretty good job at it). Learning to cook a
variety of delectable dishes was just a bonus; plus having the opportunity to visit astonishing places
which brought him so much satisfaction.
“I really think this is my calling. For some time I went astray and ended up lost. This is high time I
redeem all faults.” He uttered this profoundly in one of those rare times I caught him looking very
serious and staring blankly at nothingness. He certainly learned a lot of things. He even risked doing the
unthinkable and grabbing unique opportunities for personal enrichment while preparing for his future
career.
Well, he might have changed a great deal, but for me, he’s still the same old him— only better.
At this point, I can very well say that he’s on the right track and has really established proper
momentum. He did not become a basketball player in the professional league, by the way. He will never
be, sad to say. His height speaks for it. But he succeeded in drawing out what’s possible from the
complex maze of impossibilities. That’s what’s so amazing about him.
Now, he has also found his set of friends— a group where he really fit in. They labeled him mamay
(probably because he’s the oldest in their circle). His classmates? They call him Andrew. Relatives
identify him as AJ. His girlfriend tagged him with different mushy endearments. He’s Mr. Amante to his
professors and will forever be my mom’s totoy. But simply, he is the perfect kuya to his darling little
sister— me.
12. Human Interest Story
• It is a story that basically appeals to the
emotions.
• It aims to show the subject’s oddity, or its
practical, emotional or entertainment value.
• It presents people and their problems,
concerns, or achievements in a way that
brings about interest or sympathy in the
reader or viewer.
13. R&B singer Usher wins primary custody of sons
Written by: Jonathan Landrum Jr.
ATLANTA (AP) - Grammy-winning R&B singer Usher on Friday was awarded primary physical custody of
his two sons, ending a long legal fight with his ex-wife. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Bensonetta
Tipton Lane ruled that the singer, 33, will have primary custody of 4-year-old Usher Raymond V and 3
year-old Naviyd Ely Raymond, according to Cherrise Boone, spokeswoman for the court clerk’s office.
His custody will start Sept. 1.
Boone said Usher and his ex-wife Tameka Foster Raymond will have joint legal custody. The type of
visitation hasn’t been determined yet for Tameka Raymond.
Usher’s lawyer, Ivory Brown, did not immediately return a call on Friday. Lisa West, a lawyer for Tameka
Raymond, did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
Usher, whose real name is Usher Raymond IV, married Tameka Raymond in 2007. They divorced two
years later. He said the couple had been separated since July 2008 and claimed there was “no
reasonable hope of reconciliation” and the marriage was “irretrievably broken.”
In May, Usher testified that Tameka Raymond spit at and tried to fight with his girlfriend during one visit
and that his ex-wife hit him during the dispute. He said he didn’t press charges because: “I didn’t want
the boys to know that their father put their mother in jail,” he said.
Tameka Raymond’s attorney claimed that Usher provoked her client and that his account is exaggerated.
The custody decision comes after Tameka Raymond’s 11-year-old son Kile Glover died last month after
he was critically injured in a boating accident. The boy was run over July 6 by a personal watercraft on
Lake Lanier, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Lake Lanier is about 40 miles
northeast of Atlanta.
14. Trend Stories
• These kinds of feature story examine people,
things or organizations and latest fads that
create impact to society.
Tips on making a good trend story:
1. Make it current.
2. Find what is buzz-worthy.
3. Keep it fun.
4. Make sure it’s real.
15. The Latest Trend: Trend Stories
Written by: Daniel Watson
Jack Shafer of Slate Magazine has seen it all.
Just in the last few months: fashionable chicks on bicycles, criminals wearing Yankees caps, flat
chest pride, Chinese hymenoplasties, drivers buzzed on meds, marijuana cuisine, Pakistanis
Impersonating Indians, Christian fight clubs, and dudes with cats.
Shafer is the false trend policeman and he uncovers these trends in his weekly offering “Press
Box.” He is a long-time journalist who explores the ethical violations and shortfalls of the
mainstream media.
“I devote time to them in my column because they piss me off,” he replied bluntly during a recent
email exchange. Trend stories are hot. And so is lazy journalism. They engage our very nature. The
human desire to fit in, to be like everyone else, to be told what to do next.
After the caveman’s fur-skin, “You had cats in ancient Egypt, central heating in ancient Rome, and
the woad that was worn by the Iceni,” wrote Simon O’Hagan in the Independent. “Trends were
everywhere, and then people discovered that they couldn't live without them.”
Reporters love them “because they’re lazy,” Shafer said. In the last decade, they’ve become all
the rage.
In an ironic twist, trend stories are the newest trend, and the media is much to blame.
It started at the turn of the century. According to Radosh.net, a Nexis database search for “trend”
in the headline produced fewer than 4,000 articles in 1990. In 1997, more than 14,000 appeared.
16. For every good trend story, there are dozens that are baseless, without statistics to back them up. Of a
recent Associated Press story titled “DOJ Report Says Child Porn on the Rise,” Shafer points out the
trend story actually undermines itself. “The number of offenders accessing the images and videos and
the quantity of images and videos being traded is unknown,” the article states.
It’s a classic example of what Poynter.org terms “a common red flag in trend stories.” A claim in the nut
graph recanted or qualified later in the story.
“’Weasel words’ — some, few, often, seems, likely — are red flags,” the article states.
But why? Why has the media taken up this love affair, often violating its own ethical tenants for the ease
and access of an unsubstantiated report?
Daniel Radosh of Radosh.net proposes “the general transformation of the media.” Due to the Internet’s
demand for immediacy, daily newspapers have to “redefine themselves.” The breaking news story is for
the 24-hour TV reports and Internet blogs. Newspapers and magazines have “the marginally longer
attention span necessary to track trends,” Radosh writes.
Another part of the problem lies within the very concept of the trend: “today’s star,” “the latest craze,”
“so yesterday.”
The media is encouraged to jump the gun. To call the shot. But the media does its audience a disservice
when it rushes to judgment without seeking proof.
Concept stories, such as the trend story, don’t require many sources, or much news development — just
a peculiar observation from an editor who announces during a news meeting that two Thai restaurants
opened up near his house and it warrants a story.
Often, the sighting of a celebrity buying soup is enough to splash trend headlines all over the front
page, and if not there, the lifestyle section.
“Truth and information that’s verifiable,” make for a good trend story, Shafer said toPoynter.
17. Yet, when the truth is unmasked, without hard facts to correct, newspapers rarely run a correction on
trend stories.
It’s one thing for a newspaper to run a “what’s hot/what’s not” column, where a columnist might
hypothesize on an observation. It’s quite another when the New York Times runs “Crime Blotter Has a
Regular: Yankees Caps” on Page One, yet produces little to no hard evidence the connection exists
between the Yankees and crime.
The fortune telling is better left to trend-spotters. “Trend-spotting — the art and science of identifying
new trends and predicting future trends — is a booming industry filled by a swelling rank of new
professionals who go by a grab bag of titles,” wrote Tom Maurstad in aDallas Morning News article
charting the explosion at the turn of the century.
It’s the stock market. It’s gambling. It’s tarot cards. Their findings are hit and miss. “One of the many
challenges confronting any aspiring trend-spotter is separating all the meaningless fads from the
meaningful expressions of some underlying trend,” wrote Maurstad.
If trendsetters, who devote their careers to exploring the misty field of trends, often get it wrong, how
can reporters expect to always get it right?
“Seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues,” is the duty of
journalists, reads the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics. Trend stories should offer no
reprieve.
18. Humurous Feature
• It entertains the reader with a story that is full
of wit and humor.
20. Powers of the Harp
Written by: Ashley Powers
When I was 10 years old, I walked into a church in Frederick at Christmas time and saw a group of
harpists performing Christmas music on the altar. Right there, well, that’s where it all began.
I had already learned how to play the flute and the trumpet by then, but I knew at that very moment
that I wanted, at some point in my life, to play the harp.
Seven years later, on December 31, 2008, I turned 17. And on the day that I became able to legally
watch rated R movies, my dad gave me a 36 stringed lever harp. My immediate reaction: “OH MY
GOD!” I then pulled out my cell phone and immediately texted Mr. Briggs to tell him to sign me up
for “dorkestra.” I already knew that we were going to tackle Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony this
year, and I had been planning on playing trumpet for it. I was upset that the beautiful harp piece of
the music was not going to be played. So when that stringed instrument that is larger than me
became mine, Mr. Briggs gave me the music and I began a war.
Okay, so it wasn’t quite a war, but it was a battle.
To put things in perspective, The New York Philharmonic plays Mahler’s Second. The BSO may tackle
it. Sometimes, a college symphony orchestra goes for it. High school bands, well that just doesn’t
happen.
21. Granted, we did only play the fourth and fifth movements, but we only started it second
semester and this undertaking was a great enough challenge.
Some questioned Mr. Briggs’ sanity for actually assigning this. After looking at the music, I could
see where the critics were coming from. I lost sleep at night as I tried to figure out how exactly to
play 28 notes in one and a half beats and 11 notes at once with only ten fingers.
When I arrived at my first harp lesson, I was told that you only use eight of your fingers to play
the harp anyway. I couldn’t play “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on the harp if you asked me to, but I can
play Mahler’s Second Symphony. I dove into music that was normally for professional harpists,
knowing nothing and learning everything about technique, a crucial part of playing the harp. But I
didn’t give up. Such was the attitude of those who played this piece. While no one else
learned a totally new instrument for Mahler like I did, everyone had to push themselves way past
their limits. I have to say it paid off. Minutes before the performance, I hauled my harp on stage in a
formal dress (not such an easy feat, let me tell you), sat down, and began to tune all 36 strings, one
by one. I was nervous, so it took longer than usual. In the end, I had no need to be. While I played, it
felt just as it did when there wasn’t a packed audience in front of me. The thing about grand pieces
of music, like Mahler’s Second Symphony, is that when you’re playing
it, you really become part of the music. Everything else is forgotten but the notes on the page.
Exhilaration doesn’t quite describe it, but it comes close. By the time the final note was played, I was
grinning, and the energy on stage was tangible.
Now that it’s all over, we’re sad to see it go, but already looking forward to the next musical
experience. The new challenge is to top that, to take things to a new level. Maybe next year the
music department will play all five movements.
As for me? Well, I’m learning “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”
22. How-to Feature Article
• It explains a process or method, usually
accompanied by illustration or photos.