Feature Stories
Another name for feature style writing is this.
What is soft news?
A piece of writing that represents the view of the newspaper is called this.
What is an editorial?
These are the two kinds of information that need to be checked while editing for errors.
What are facts and grammar?
Journalists must avoid using this form of voice in their writing. (Hint: 1st, 2nd or 3rd person)
What is 2nd voice?
A great way to evaluate the clarity of your writing,
What is taking off your journalist hat and putting on your reader's glasses?
Far deeper research than that of a hard news piece is usually conducted in this kind of story.
What is a feature story?
A piece of writing by a citizen that is in response to a current event.
What is a letter-to-the-editor?
This practice is considered a great way to make the most out of your editing process.
What is taking some time away after writing, but before editing?
Feature stories can vary in length with as many as up to this many words.
What is 5,000?
This kind of opinion piece may be written in 1st person and does not generally require a lot of research.
What is a column?
Apart from the timing of a feature story, these are the three characteristics included in writing these articles.
What are personal, in-depth, and descriptive?
Attacking a person instead of addressing the person's opposing opinion is considered this type of logical fallacy.
What is ad hominem?
These are the 3 types of editing, listed in order.
What are editing for ideas, editing for style, and editing for errors?
Telling an anecdote is an example of this kind of feature story lead.
What is a mini-story lead?
In an opinion piece, arguing a stance without including sufficient evidence is called this kind of logical fallacy.
What is a hasty conclusion?
This type of lead delays the introduction of the main character or main event to build suspense.
What is a withheld-lead?
Reducing the outcomes to only two possible opinions when others are also possible is considered this kind of logical fallacy.
What is false dilemma?
A great "hint" that is provided in your book as a way to ensure you never misspell a name or job title.
What is asking for a business card?
While you are in the research step of writing an opinion piece, building a sound argument includes these three things.
What are researching the facts, weighing the options, and predicting outcomes?
The key to keeping your writing precise.
What is using the exact word to convey meaning?
Crafting the length of your feature story's lead is in proportion to the length of this.
What is the length of the whole story?
List 4 of the 8 characteristics of an opinion piece.
What are controversial, current, conversational, creative, concise, credible, convincing, and/or compelling?
This is the best way to incorporate a long direct quote into your article.
What is writing it indirectly or paring it down to the most important sentence or two and summarizing the rest?
In an opinion piece, a journalist's overall point would best be made by putting their strongest point here.
What is at the end for a grand finale?
Aside from checking your math, this is something you should do to incorporate math well into your writing.
What is simplifying the meaning by giving examples of how they might affect a particular situation?