The Associated Press Guide to News Writing Chapter 11 Review


Whenever Apple releases a new iPhone the device is covered extensively and featured on many news sites and television. The new iPhone is being showcased by Apple and they go on and on about all the new features the phone can do. Much like the new product Apple produces with new features there is a type of news called features. In Rene J. Cappon’s The Associated Press Guide to News Writing Chapter 11: Features: A View from the Poet’s Corner, Cappon goes into detail on how to write a feature. This week we will be looking at the eleventh chapter in Cappon’s book.

In this chapter, Cappon talks about features, which are a news story that are less limited than hard news. Cappon explains a problem some writers have when writing features. This problem is that the writer spends too much time trying to decorate the story with fancy words rather than being straightforward. It is okay to be descriptive, but the problem is the overuse of adjectives and generalities often found in the writing of features.

This chapter focused on the many ways to write features and how to write a feature story properly. Cappon gives many examples throughout this chapter and a lot of tips on how to write features. In this chapter you could read Cappon’s passion for feature writing as he wrote a lot about his experience doing so in this chapter. Overall, this chapter was an interesting one. The chapter had a lot of information that could prove useful to future journalist.

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