Features

Features. JOURNALISM WRITING. Essay. Opinion. Article.

a story that's longer than a standard news story and written in a different style. Features can vary widely, from news up to arts..

Feature / feature article/ feature story. “Soft news” human interest story.

Human Interest. FEATURES. focus on an issue as it impacts a person or a group of people..

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a piece of writing that methodically analyses and evaluates a topic or issue. An essay is designed to get your academic opinion on a particular matter..

Essay. Expository. Persuasive. Analytical. Argumentative.

Type of argument in which you give reasons for your opinions and preferences.

uvlNG HAIR COLOUR - WORTH DYEING FOR? a dye. The Magazine Of the Year • MARCH • Vol. l, No. I p. So MY COUNTRY, HIGHT LEFT? An editor of the Gallup poll, analyzing public opinion trends, explains a sharp s By William A. Lydgate THERE have been four outstand• ing trends of public opinion in the United States since end Of the war: (I) a stiffening atti- tude toward Russia. (2) rising fear Of another war, (3) a strongly developing sentiment for laws to control unions and regulate strikes, and (4) a swing to the right politically. Those trends have a vital bearing on the future. Public opinion is a mighty, sometimes a brutal, force. It puts governments in and out of office, starts and stops wars, sets the tone of morality, makes and breaks' heroes. What m?ople think today largely determines what they will do tomorrow. The takers, such as Gallup, Elmo Roper, and various state and local polls, regularly take the na- tion's pulse and tell us how we feel. Right now it takes only two words to describe how we feel: horribly disillusioned. The average American never doubted we would win the war: but he did wonder whether we would win the INace. He's not wondering any more. He's sure now that we are not winning the rkace, as things stand today. He started Out after day being optimistic amut the future. Polls found a large majority Of votet* saying there was no likeli• hood of another major war in our lifetime—only 38 per cent were gloomy enough to believe there would m. Everywhere there was confidence that Russia would co• operate with us in fashioning a world order under which civiliæd nations could move forward to new achievements, free from the curM2 Of fascism and the threat OidMagazineArt icies.com.

News article discusses current news of either general interest or specific topic.

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Straight News. Soft News. Straight news = hard news.

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Choose one of the journalism writing types. Next Week Assignment.

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