Writing Feature Articles, 4th Edition

Preface

This book aims to help not only students on journalism and media studies courses, but also anybody at any stage of life who wants to get into journalism, whether staff or freelance, and practising journalists who want to extend their range. The emphasis is on aspects still neglected in books on writing skills. Those aspects are: first, the need to have something to say, and second, the need to adapt content to different audiences. To put it another way, I have concentrated on how to find good ideas and how to develop them in different ways. I have therefore commented on extracts from a wide spectrum of published articles.

How to use this book

I suggest reading it straight through and then referring to specific chapters as necessary. ...