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Writing Feature Articles, Third Edition (Focal Press Journalism S.) [Paperback]

Brendan Hennessy A graduate of Edinburgh University. (Author)
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0240514718 978-0240514710 December 16, 1996 3
This book is aimed at everybody who wants to write feature articles - including students on journalism courses; practising journalists, staff or freelance; people in trades and professions who have the need or occasion to write articles and are not sure how to go about it; people in PR and advertising; and people looking for a new hobby.


Writing Feature Articles has proved invaluable, not only to students on journalism courses in the UK and overseas, but also to journalists extending their range, and to freelance and aspiring writers. Examples have been updated for this edition, and new information included on word processing.

A best-selling guide to writing articles for a variety of media.
Provides practical and in-depth guidance to successful writing and publishing.
Provides practical assignments to enhance teaching/learning.


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"My 'Bible'! This was my primary reference source when I was self-teaching myself to become a writer in 1996/7. I have subsequently had over 12,000 words and 260 pictures published in 20 UK leisure and lifestyle magazines seen by approximately 2.5 million readers."
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"One of the better books on feature writing. I would recommend this to intermediate level writers - those who are not complete beginners, but not seasoned professionals either. They will benefit most."
Reader review, Amazon.co.uk

"The best book ever on article writing."
James Gracie, Writer's Monthly

Book Description

The feature writers' bible - a complete revision of a classic book --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 440 pages
  • Publisher: Focal Press; 3 edition (December 16, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0240514718
  • ISBN-13: 978-0240514710
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,672,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have resource for writers, March 23, 2006
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This is the best book I have found for practical guidance on developing feature articles and marketing them to a wide variety of publications; the author presents information in a way that is easy to follow and a pleasure to read. Excellent resource!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Dated, patronising, clumsy, April 12, 2010
Some 160 pages into Hennessy's mag op, I am seized ever-more violently by the urge to lob it into a nearby wall.

Despite the supposed revision in 2006 the book is now heavily dated. The brief, rather patronising consideration he gives to the internet (uppercased as 'The Internet') says it all: fusty, outmoded, potentially still hankering after moveable-type. As you'd imagine, his patter about 'meta-search engines' and 'internet directories' is useless.

Where it hasn't dated, Hennessy retains a rare gift for stating the terminally obvious. The whole book seems to be a litany of the sort of axioms that one only need be a sentient human being - not a seasoned feature writer - to grasp (like 'ask creative questions'; 'be precise when pitching by telephone'). It's all then hacked together in Hennessy's inimitably humourless, dry-as-dust style. He uses irritatingly folksy made-up case studies which are again mainly facets of common-sense, to the extent that the overall feel is one of heavy padding: paragraphs could be condensed into lines, chapters into pages. Fatally, he has tried to be 'thorough', perhaps more pointedly, 'methodical' in surveying the subject, but that approach has merely translated into being boring and long-winded.

Every sentence is a tedious battle to the end.
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Inside This Book (learn more)
First Sentence:
Are you curious about your fellows, about the human condition? Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
topical peg, writing feature articles, publicity writing, target publication, service columns, specialist writers, news peg, query letter
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Guardian, Ski Hols, Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, Daily Mirror, Press Gazette, Private Eye, The Independent, New York, News of the World, Reader's Digest, British Gas, Daily Express, John Major, Focal Press, Sunday Express, United States, Freelance Market News, Penguin Books, Rose Jones, Soviet Union, The Oldie, British Telecom, Building Today, Marie Claire
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