Feature Writing
Explore the role of a feature writer and the key ingredients to use in your own writing to create a stand-out feature article.
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How it works
Feature Writing
Learn how to write a feature article
This four-week course will help you explore the feature landscape to help you understand the crucial difference between a news story and a feature.
You’ll learn how feature writers get their ideas as you discover the importance of research and valuable sources. With this understanding, you’ll put what you have learned into practice and complete an exercise to get the ideas flowing for your own feature.
Explore the vital ingredients for first-class feature articles
Delving into the key components of a feature article, you’ll learn the best techniques for interviewing people to help take your ideas and turn them into long-form pieces.
You’ll think about the value of originality and some of the ethical dilemmas you could face as a feature writer.
You’ll also examine different types of features to understand their common principles before being guided through a practical exercise to help you learn key structural tips.
Discover the art of writing an opinion piece
Finally, you’ll explore the opinionated side of journalism – reviews, opinion columns, and news-based blogs.
By the end of this course, you’ll understand the ethical and legal difficulties you could face when producing opinion pieces.
What topics will you cover?
- Exploring features and where they appear
- Idea generation
- Interviews
- Feature construction, including narrative storytelling
- Research and pitching
- Opinion columns, reviews and blogs
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explore features and where they appear
- Discuss idea-generation
- Explain how to prepare to interview people for features
- Describe feature construction, including narrative storytelling
- Investigate ideas for features
- Produce a pitch for a feature idea
- Explore opinion columns, reviews and blogs
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for aspiring writers or journalists with an interest in media reporting.
If you’d like to develop your understanding further, you may be interested in these courses. They’re from the same provider and share overall learning outcomes:
Who developed the course?
The University of Kent
The University of Kent, the UK’s European university, is one of the country’s most dynamic universities. Established in 1965, it now has 19,850 students studying at its various campuses.
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Choose the best way to learn for you!
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$349.99 for one year
Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
- Access to this course
- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Buy this course
$134/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
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Free
Sample the course materials
- Access expires 21 May 2024
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