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IA2003:03

Feature Writing

Townsville, Cairns

HECS Band 1

33 hours workshops (Townsville campus); 13 hours lectures, 20 hours tutorials (Cairns campus). Semester 2.

Staff:

Mr J Cokley (Townsville campus);

Mr N Uko (Cairns campus).

Students build upon the reporting and writing skills developed in level 1 as they learn to prepare feature articles of a standard suitable for publication. The subject uses news writing as a base from which to develop higher level skills of research and analysis, including as necessary statistical research, dealing with a diverse range of opinions, anecdotes, other published material and/or the reporter's own impressions, on the way to creating entertaining and informative feature articles.

Learning Objectives:

to prepare feature articles of a standard suitable for publication;

to develop higher level skills of research and analysis;

to develop an understanding of the responsibilities of the feature writer as an informed social commentator.

Assessment by tutorial participation (10%); regular written assignments (90%).