ABSTRACT

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.

part |239 pages

Practising the skills

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter |6 pages

Getting organized

chapter |25 pages

From idea to publication

chapter |18 pages

The world of ideas

chapter |20 pages

Studying the print market

chapter |18 pages

Subjects and treatments

chapter |27 pages

Ways of finding out

chapter |15 pages

Creating the best order

chapter |23 pages

Making a coherent whole

chapter |10 pages

The style for the purpose

chapter |15 pages

Illustrating with impact

part |126 pages

Expanding your horizons

chapter |12 pages

Writing publicity

chapter |19 pages

The regular columnist

chapter |29 pages

The reviewer

chapter |21 pages

The specialists

chapter |6 pages

Selling overseas

chapter |4 pages

Law and ethics