Feature Article
A news article that balances reporting with storytelling.
What is a feature article?
This helps you graphically organize the relationship between ideas.
A strategy where you leave an unknown source and open new sources to see what they’re saying about the unknown source.
What is lateral reading?
A periodical that’s usually printed on glossy paper and that's published at regular intervals: monthly, weekly, etc.
What is a magazine?
The goal of this is to pique the reader's interest.
What is a lead?
In a Google Search, this operator tells which terms to remove from the search.
What is a minus sign?
Give an example of confirmation bias.
Jill loves Coca-Cola. In her article about the best soft drinks on the market, she only uses information from coca-cola.com.
A pitch to an editor that tries to get the editor interested in your writing.
What is a query letter?
A central idea explored or an insight proposed by a work.
What is a theme?
Credentials---an aspect of a person’s background that indicates that they’re an expert on a topic---is part of this framework.
What is the CAPS framework? (first criteria)
Explain the "Project" technique we learned during this unit for Digging Deeper into an event. (Feature Article Analysis: Digging Deeper handout, Week 21)
Look beyond an event at its impact and criticism.
A list of cited sources where you summarize, evaluate, and reflect on each source.
What is an annotated bibliography?
How is a feature article structured like a narrative?
Generally, a feature article uses a narrative arc with exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and a resolution.
How does Development of Action help you identify an interesting story?
It helps you locate a story with an interesting event, along with a discussion of its impact and challenges.
When using Google Search, how do you simplify a research question to ensure that you get fewer and more relevant sources?
Select key words or phrases that are as specific as possible.
When someone takes pieces from an original text or rephrases an author’s words without providing an attribution or quotation marks.
What is mosaic plagiarism?