Tuesday, your first feature story (Assignment #3) was
due. I will grade these and have them ready to return to you during the next
class meeting.
Feature
profiles are a bit different from news profiles. News profiles are usually more
biographical in nature. Feature profiles, on the other hand, tend to be about
the everyday, unsung heroes…human interest stories that capture personalities
by painting word pictures.
Everyone
has a story to tell, but not everyone is anxious to tell it. It’s your job to
draw the story out and find what makes that person fascinating. Good profiles
reveal feelings, expose attitudes, and capture habits and mannerisms. Feature
profiles should be as entertaining as they are informative.
Profiles are due this coming Thursday (Feb. 15), so be sure
to decide on whom you will be writing about and make an appointment to
interview him or her.
Tuesday, we will focus on interviewing techniques. In
preparation, please read pages 78 to 85 on interviewing, quotations and
attributions.
Note: class was cancelled Thursday (Feb. 8).
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