Welcome To The Features Department: Response

After reading 2 articles from the “Welcome To The Features Department”, my view of feature writing was changed. For example, Donald Murray was very intriguing in the way he explained how feature writers need to predict the news that’ll happen “days, weeks, months, and years ahead”. Not only that, he explained that the lead is not only the most important thing in a feature story, but rather the conclusion as well. That the ending gives a sense of completion to the story. Christopher Scanlan also gave a different approach when he wrote the story “A Day in the Life of a Feature Writer” ; as to what a writer thinks, does, and eventually writes. I found them both very helpful and appealing.