Writing Feature Articles

by Brendan Hennessy

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.

Genres: Writing, Journalism

432 pages, Paperback

First published November 5, 1996

Reviews

[Steve Goodyear · Rating 1 out of 5]

This wasn't my cup of tea--even though he mentions tea or tea metaphors frequently in the book. He gets to the point quickly and directly, but I found he had too many extraneous points. He often throws in points with too casual of a style that throws the flow off and makes it awkward to read. Overall, I think the book could be tightened up to about half its content and not lose anything.

I was hoping his would have more of a genre analysis and detailed look at the actual writing, but it fell far short of anything I was hoping to get out of the read. It has a few good points, but it is very much an absolute beginner's book.

[Mohsen]

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