Feature Writing

Singapore University of Social Sciences

Feature Writing (COM353)

Applications Open: 01 October 2024

Applications Close: 15 November 2024

Next Available Intake: January 2025

Course Types: Modular Undergraduate Course

Language: English

Duration: 6 months

Fees: $1392 View More Details on Fees

Area of Interest: Humanities and Social Sciences

Schemes: Alumni Continuing Education (ACE)

Funding: To be confirmed

School/Department: School of Humanities & Behavioural Sciences

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Synopsis

If you ask the question "how and why" things happen, then you probably like reading feature stories in newspapers and magazines. A feature takes an in-depth look at what’s going on behind the news. It may be a profile of a person or a group; an athlete, a performer, a politician, or a community worker or a team, a theatre group or a political organization.

Level: 3
Credit Units: 5
Presentation Pattern: EVERY JAN
E-Learning: BLENDED - Learning is done MAINLY online using interactive study materials in Canvas. Students receive guidance and support from online instructors via discussion forums and emails. This is supplemented with SOME face-to-face sessions. If the course has an exam component, this will be administered on-campus.

Topics

Introduction
Feature stories - feature writing
Research and Interview
Review - Writing preparation
Feature writing for newspapers
Feature writing for magazines

Learning Outcome

Write feature stories and news articles
Propose conceptual frameworks of feature writing for finished stories
Apply appropriate style and structure to developing the feature writing
Use genre-appropriate techniques of feature writing to enhance the effectiveness of the story
Design various types of features
Construct the story development process for features
Discuss issues pertaining to the feature writing to improve effectiveness of writing in the professional workplace