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Professional Feature Writing Professional Feature Writingprovides the basics of news media feature writing and establishes a solid foundation for students and writers making feature writing their career. This fifth edition offers a thorough and up-to-date look at newspaper, magazine, newsletter, and online publications, with emphasis on daily newspapers and consumer magazines. It serves as a comprehensive introduction to feature writing, emphasizing writing skills, article types, and the collegiate and professional writing life. With a wide variety of perspectives and experiences of both young and experienced writers, editors, publishers, and professors, the text is filled with practical guidance for writing a wide variety of features. Emphasizing writing values to strengthen a new writer’s journalistic practices, author Bruce Garrison offers insights and expertise based on his own experience and the advice of professionals. He also includes lists of tips, observations, guidelines, sources, and story ideas, and gives a solid tour of the forms and approaches to feature writing. New for this edition are: • Updated examples of feature writing, integrated throughout the text • Profiles of young newspaper and magazine feature writers, highlighting their experiences and paths to success in the profession • Coverage of computer-based research tools for writers, including discussion of on-line computer-based research tools with specific focus on the World Wide Web • Discussion of online newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and original online publications and the role of feature writing for electronic publications • Each chapter includes excerpts and complete articles from the nation’s leading publications. Building on introductory writing and reporting skills, this text is appropriate for upper-division journalism students learning feature writing and advanced writing topics. It will also serve as a valuable resource for freelance writers. Dr. Bruce Garrison is Professor of Journalism at the University of Miami, where he teaches feature writing and travel writing. He supervises the National Parks Feature Writing Project and conducts research about new technologies in journalism. He also oversees an annual summer study-abroad feature writing course in the People’s Republic of China and the Shanghai Student Journalism Project. He has authored numerous books for the journalism discipline, including reporting, writing, and online journalism. Communication Series Jennings Bryant/Dolf Zillman, General Editors Selected titles in Journalism (Maxwell McCombs, Advisory Editor) include: Real Feature Writing, Second Edition Aamidor Communicating Uncertainty Media Coverage of News and Controversial Science Friedman/Dunwoody/Rogers Qualitative Research in Journalism Taking it to the Streets Iorio Twilight of Press Freedom The Rise of People’s Journalism Merrill/Gade/Blevens Public Journalism and Public Life, Second Edition Why Telling the News Is Not Enough Merritt Reviewing the Arts, Third Edition Titchener Professional Feature Writing Fifth Edition Bruce Garrison Please visit the companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415998970 First edition published 1989 Second edition published 1994 Third edition published 1999 Fourth edition published 2004 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. This edition published 2010 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library,2009. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. © 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004 Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. © 2010 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Garrison, Bruce, 1950–. Professional feature writing/by Bruce Garrison.—5th ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Feature writing. I. Title. PN4784.F37G37 2009 808(cid:2).06607—dc22 2009006694 ISBN 0-203-87284-3 Mastere-bookISBN ISBN10: 0–415–99898–0 (hbk) ISBN10: 0–415–99897–2 (pbk) ISBN10: 0–203–87284–3 (ebk) ISBN13: 978–0–415–99898–7 (hbk) ISBN13: 978–0–415–99897–0 (pbk) ISBN13: 978–0–203–87284–0 (ebk) Contents About the Author vii 10 Acknowledgments ix Entertainment Features and Critical Preface xi Writing 185 11 Part One Aftermath, Follow-Up, and Depth THE BASICS 1 Series Articles 216 1 12 Feature Writing Today 3 Travel Writing 229 2 13 Careers as Feature Writers and Service Features 256 Editors 16 14 3 Personal Experience Articles 275 Finding Good Feature Article Ideas 38 15 4 Humor in Feature Writing 289 Researching Feature Article Ideas 60 16 5 New Technology and Science Features 309 The Writing, Story Telling, and Editing Processes 81 Part Three THE COLLEGIATE AND Part Two PROFESSIONAL WRITER 331 TYPES OF FEATURE ARTICLES 105 17 6 Writing Feature Articles on Campus 333 Descriptive and Color Writing 107 18 7 Freelance Writing and Marketing 348 The Human-Interest Article 124 19 8 Surviving in the Freelance Business 372 Profiles and Personality Sketches 144 9 Appendix A Seasonal Features 168 World Wide Web Resources 391 vi Contents Appendix B Appendix E Pennsylvania Angler & Boater American Society of Journalists Guidelines for Contributors 393 and Authors Code of Ethics and Fair Practices 403 Appendix C Freelance Letters of Agreement of References 407 National Geographic Society 397 Index 418 Appendix D Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists 400 About the Author Dr. Bruce Garrison is a professor in the Journalism Program of the School of Communication at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. He teaches graduate and undergraduate level journalism and mass communication courses. Among them is a class focusing on feature writing and another on travel writing. He is a long-time resident of Miami. Garrison has written full-time for daily newspapers, occasionally serves as a freelance travel writer, and has taken on freelance assignments for industry magazines. He has worked as a reporter, feature writer, and/or copy editor for the Lexington Herald-Leader,Hattiesburg (MS) American, Knoxville News-Sentinel, Dallas Morning News, Milwaukee Journal, The Patriot Ledgerof Quincy, MA,The Miami News, and The Miami Herald. He has supervised and edited about forty special feature writing sections and projects for the daily Key West Citizen since 1990. He has written features for newspaper industry magazines and newsletters, such as Editor & Publisher, Coach’s Corner, Publisher’s Auxiliary, and various annual publications of the Associated Press Managing Editors organization. He is a former Fulbright lecturer in the People’s Republic of China and has also conducted writing workshops in England, India, and Sri Lanka. He supervises a World Wide Web feature writing project about the American national parks, Our National Parks, at http://com.miami.edu/parks. The site, created in 2003, contains more than 350 story-and-photo packages written by undergraduate students about national parks across the United States. He also travels with students for study-abroad feature writing and photography projects each year in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing, other cities of the People’s Republic of China, and Bangkok, Thailand (http://com.miami.edu/china). Garrison is author or co-author of several other books about journalism and mass communication, including a co-authored book with the late Michael B. Salwen and UM colleague Paul Driscoll, Online News and the Public (2005). He has also written Computer- Assisted Reporting (2nd ed., 1998), Successful Strategies for Computer-Assisted Reporting (1996), Sports Reporting (1993, 2nd ed.), Professional News Reporting (1992), Advanced Reporting: Skills for the Professional (1992), Professional News Writing (1990), and, co- authored with Michael B. Salwen, Latin American Journalism(1991). Acknowledgments As with the first four editions, I received a lot of help to finish this project. Gratitude is owed to many people who provided assistance, and I want to mention a few of them here. First, and I often neglect mentioning it to them, I offer my sincerest thanks to my students, who have always been willing to lend a hand. They inspire me to keep this book fresh and interesting. I also thank Dean Sam Grogg, for his assistance in providing the support of the School of Communication at the University of Miami. Furthermore, my appreciation is offered to these individuals who contributed to this fifth edition: University of Miami graduate students Yu Liu, Ibis Nieves, and Kaitlyn Lavender made significant contributions by assisting with research and other necessary time-consuming activities. Colleague Dr. Robert Hosmon, associate dean in the School of Communication at the University of Miami, for his insightful comments and contributions to the discussion about restaurant and food criticism. The Miami Heraldtravel editor Jane Wooldridge for her extensive comments and advice about travel feature writing. Miami Modern Luxury magazine senior editor Melissa Cantor for her contributions about freelance writing and working with freelance writers as a magazine editor. Lesley Abravanel, Miami Herald celebrity and nightlife columnist, for her tips about covering the rich and famous. Washington PostIraq correspondent Ernesto Londono for his discussion of writing features about war and conflict in the Middle East. Recent M.A. graduate Kaitlyn Lavender for discussing her efforts to become a freelance feature writer. Miami Heraldbusiness editor Lisa Gibbs for discussing her work with freelance writers and her own magazine and newspaper feature writing. Food Network Magazine staff writer and recent graduate Danielle McNally for descrip- tions of her developing new career in New York and her work founding a college campus magazine. Miami Heraldsportswriter Michelle Kaufman for her how-to tips and suggestions about feature writing. Miami newspaper and magazine freelance writer Annie Vazquez, of Miami, for her insights about her writing, working as a teacher full-time and writing, and selling her writing part-time. New Hampshire freelance writer Vincent Daniello for his sound suggestions to writers about marketing and selling stories to editors. Mary Rajkumar, an editor in charge of international enterprise reporting and special projects for The Associated Press, for her thoughts and comments from an editor’s perspective about working with freelance writers and stringers.

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Professional Feature Writing provides the basics of news media feature writing and establishes a solid foundation for students and writers making feature writing their career. This fifth edition offers a thorough and up-to-date look at newspaper, magazine, newsletter, and online publications, with e
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