Feature Writing
✨✨✨WEEK 1✨✨✨
Class Introductions
System of Computing Grades
| Midterm Grade | 10% Class Participation |
| 50% Output and Activities | |
| 40% Midterm Examination | |
| Tentative Grade | 10% Class Participation |
| 50% Output and Activities | |
| 40% Final Exam/Project | |
| Final Grade | 33% Midterm Grade |
| 67% Tentative Grade |
Course Requirements
🖊️ Active participation in class.
🖊️ Passing grade in examinations (short quizzes, midterm, and final exams).
🖊️ Submission of assignments and papers.
Some reminders:
🖊️ I give a grade of 5 for anyone I catch committing academic dishonesty including cheating in exams, plagiarizing, and recycling a work you submitted in previous or other classes.
🖊️ I give surprise quizzes.
✨✨✨WEEK 2✨✨✨
🖊️ Introduction to Feature Writing
🖊️🖊️ Feature Writing Defined
🖊️🖊️ Elements of Feature Writing
🖊️🖊️ Functions of Feature Story
🖊️🖊️ Features and Hard News Compared
🖊️🖊️ The Market and Audience for Feature Stories
✨✨✨WEEK 3✨✨✨
Qualities of a Good Feature Writer
Characteristics of a Good Feature Article
Types of Feature Articles/Stories
✨✨✨WEEK 4✨✨✨
The Anatomy of a Feature Story
Finding, Researching, and Reporting Topics Part I
> Finding Good Topics
> Reporting for Narrative: 10 Overlapping Rules
✨✨✨WEEK 5✨✨✨
Finding, Researching, and Reporting Topics Part II
> To Tape of Not To Tape
> Interviewing
> The Psychology of Interview
> Participatory Reporting
> Being There
> Not Always Being There
> Reporting Across Cultures
> Reporting on Your Own
✨✨✨ASSIGNMENTS✨✨✨
Assignment – Interview
Assignment – Interview (alternative)
✨✨✨March 6-10, 2023✨✨✨
The Interview – Journalism for Filipinos Chapter 13 [Must use BU email to open]
Interviewing Principles and Practices
> News Interview
> Principles of Interviewing
> Types of Questions
> Interview Ground Rules
> The Profile
> Using and Abusing Quotes
> Anonymous and Confidential
Mehdi Hasan: ‘Most people ask the question and move on. I don’t’
Karmina Constantino in focus: “When there’s an opportunity to make things right, you take it.”
STONE SKIPPING IS A LOST ART. KURT STEINER WANTS THE WORLD TO FIND IT.
✨✨✨March 13-15, 2023✨✨✨
UPLOAD ASSIGNMENT HERE
✨✨✨DATES TO REMEMBER✨✨✨
March 8, 2023 – Submission of Midterm Project – Interview women in journalism and be able to write a profile feature about them. Include the video or audio file of the interview and the feature story. [To be submitted via Google Forms.]
March 20, 2023 – Midterm Exams (Journ 2A)
March 22, 2023 – Midterm Exams (Journ 2B)
✨✨✨IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER✨✨✨
ON OR BEFORE MAY 16, 2023 – SUBMIT W/ NO DEDUCTIONS
MAY 17-23, 2023 – SUBMIT W/ DEDUCTIONS PER DAY
BEYOND MAY 23, 2023 – WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED
✨✨✨FURTHER READING✨✨✨
Pulitzer Winner (2004): Julia Keller’s color story on the Utica tornado in 2004
Pulitzer Winner (1994): First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas, 10
Pulitzer Winner (1979): Mrs. Kelly’s Monster