Writing Feature Articles [Paperback]

Hennessy's classic text tells you everything you need to know about writing successful features. You will learn how to formulate and develop ideas and how to shape them to fit different markets.

Now in its fourth edition, Writing Feature Articles has been fully revised and updated to take into account the changing requirements of journalism and media courses. You will also discover how to exploit new technology for both researching and writing online.

Learn step-by-step how to plan, research and write articles for a wide variety of 'popular', 'quality' and specialist publications. Discover more and make the advice stick by completing the tasks and reading the keen analysis of extracts from the best of today's writing.

Packed with inspirational advice in a friendly, highly readable style, this guide is a must-have for practising and aspiring journalists and writers.Getting organized; From idea to publication; The world of ideas; Studying the print market; Subjects and treatments; The commissioning and the editing; Ways of finding out; Researching and writing online; Creating the best order; Making a coherent whole; Developing writing techniques; The style for the purpose; Illustrating with impact; Writing publicity; Interview features and profiles; The regular columnist; The reviewer; The specialists; Selling overseas; Law and ethics

If you want to set yourself up as an freelance writer of feature articles then here is a book that will give you plenty of solid, professional advice. - Writing Magazine

The best edition so far, I've bought the previous two editions of this book and they were good, this one is by far the best. Excellent!
Customer review, Amazon.co.uk, November 11, 2005


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