Course details

Name: ENWR - 317

Title: FEATURE WRITING

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2013

Credits: 3

Description:
Journalism Elective, but open to all (with prerequisite of News Reporting, or instructor\'s permission if not).

Prerequisite: News Reporting MUST have been taken PRIOR to this course, not at the same time. Contact professor in advance of registering if you don\'t have this, and occasionally it can be waived if student has appropriate other experience. This writing-intensive course will introduce journalism students to the art of short feature writing, those stories that enliven newspapers by presenting the \"human interest\" side of the news. Various types of feature stories will be written including the profile, \"evergreen\", travel, neighborhood and the challenging and critical news-feature. We also will do an investigative piece (\"take-out\") on a campus social issue. Students will further develop interviewing, fact-gathering and organizational skills learned in News Reporting. All stories will require actual, in-person reporting at off-campus locations selected by students. Such creative writing techniques as spare description, dialogue, portraying of character, pacing and climax will be taught, although all will be based on real facts and situations. Students will be encouraged to develop their own styles and approaches, though within the constraints of daily reporting deadline pressures, limited length, and with meticulous regard for factual accuracy. Writing will be shared with the class.

Last updated on 2012-10-18 By Hollander Ron (hollanderr)

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 1:00 pm To 2:15 pm

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Teaching Faculty: Hollander Ron (hollanderr)

Is course canceled: No