Feature Writing.

What is the class?

Feature Writing is an upper-level writing class offered alongside Opinion Writing when I had it, so I ended up taking both. Feature Writing is centered on learning how to write feature-style articles, which are longer than the standard article, much more detailed and rooted more in a literary style of journalism as opposed to the hard constraints of the traditional journalistic style. Features can fit into a profile on a person, a long-form narrative article about a specific issue or story or an article about a specific time and place, but their uniting factor is that they are detailed, in-depth and much more free than a standard article.

Role in the history of EAT YOUR MAKEUP.

When I began Feature Writing after an admittedly rough time in Reporting, I wasn't sure what to expect going in there. But after I completed my first feature and got a near-perfect score on it, I knew I had found the area of journalism I would excel in. It was in this class where I fully embraced Gonzo Journalism (Hunter S. Thompson's signature style of first-person journalism that places the journalist at the center of the story) and began to experiment with my writing, producing five unique articles over the course of the class. These articles, as clunky as they are in hindsight, were one of the biggest parts of how I came into my own style of writing and combined with what I had learned in Opinion Writing, helped me write reviews that were both well-written and laid out my opinions in a coherent, concise way.