FEATURE STORIES CAN BE FOUND EVERY WHERE. DISCUSS

FEATURE STORIES CAN BE FOUND EVERY WHERE DISCUSSES.

Feature stories are journalistic style of arranging relevant information into an interesting and lively story. It is design to entertain and educate certain readers of situation, an event or an aspect of life.

When writing feature stories, the writer comment on the background and should use rich language and some techniques such as personification, metaphor and irony, meaning feature stories are nonfiction.

Feature stories can be found everywhere but the writer should be original, the idea chosen should be of interest to the write. This will help in gathering more information about the idea chosen.

Feature stories can be found everywhere such as natural occurrences, rainfall, earthquake, volcanicity, tip off, press release\Statement ,court ,political parties, police station, from the internet, from research institution etc.

By critical observation into natural occurrences such as rainfall, earthquake, volcanicity, a writer can develop a feature story. The feature story should tell the readers how this natural occurrence occurs, the advantages and the disadvantages.

: In the case of rainfall, the writer should let the readers or the listeners know the amount of rain, the season of the rain and destruction that occurred.

Tipoff: information from a friend or from a knowledgeable person that the writer considers being useful to him or her can be use as feature story example: The mention of the damage of a housing project on water way.

Press statement, a press statement or release from press organizations working on project or on issues relating to the environment. The writer must ask question as to whether the press release or statement is of interest to him or her.

The court, the court is another source of feature story. The activities inside the court and how the Judges give their Judgment can be of interest to a writer to be use as feature story.

Political parties play a major role in the society, how they are form and how they contest for an election. A writer can study through their activities and develop a feature story.

Example: The Akuffo Addo’s flagbearrah and Alan cash factor.
In all these sources, the writer should consider if the idea is researchable, that is if the writer can have access to the right information. This will help the readers or listeners have satisfaction after reading or listening to the feature story.