Feature Writing
DPI 840M
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Description
This intensive module provides a thorough grounding in the techniques of journalistic feature writing: researching, reporting, interviewing, writing — and revising. We investigate where good feature ideas come from; we explore how to conceptualize, organize, and structure those ideas through journalistic narrative; and we experiment in a collaborative workshop environment with several journalistic forms — the profile, the reported essay, the “issue” story, the “trend” piece. Students will gain proficiency in the techniques of journalistic feature writing, skills that are relevant to other forms of nonfiction storytelling, too, including academic and policy writing.
Course Notes
Every Communications Program course assumes a fluency with the English language. Attendance at first class required. Using AI to write assignments is not permitted in Communications Program writing courses; please refer to the syllabus for specific AI policies.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
