Week Seven — ANZAC holiday reading
Yep, there’s a holiday on Monday–but that doesn’t mean the pace slackens!
You’ve got some really interesting, different feature stories to reda this week. Given that you are startign to learn what feature writing is about, I want you to take notice of the writign style and approach of the articles.
One is based on an investigation–it has a hard news ‘hook’.
One is based on a ‘this is so crazy it just might work’ stunt. It also won a Pulitzer Prize.
One is an essay on the aftermath of a huge news event–it’s wokring ont he currency of a news event to take a different angle.
What is the writer’s approach in each of these stories? What writing strategies have they used to engage you as the reader? Did they work? What sort of investigation did each journalist have to do to write their story?