A) What Is Your Reaction As a Reader? (Respond Thoughtfully in Complete Sentences)

Feature Story Worksheet If you have poor hand writing or prefer to type, download this document from the wiki (it’s linked from the schedule on the home page). Simply delete the lines for hand-written responses and type yours.

You will turn in this worksheet along with your assigned article(s). Remember, you may have two articles —one on the back and one on the front.

Part 1 Read the story as if you were reading it for pleasure rather than an assignment. a) What is your reaction as a reader? (respond thoughtfully in complete sentences)

Part 2 Re-read the story as a communication professional. a) Who do you think are the intended audiences? (Be specific)

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TURN OVER  b) What type(s) of feature story do you think this is? What makes it that (those) type(s)? Use your readings.

c) Directly on the article, circle transitions from one idea to the next. Keep in mind, this can be one word, a phrase, a sentence, or multiple sentences. d) Directly on the article, underline the engine paragraph or the “so what” paragraph. e) How does the article end …does it use one of the techniques from your reading (which one) or does it end in a different way? If it ends in a different way, do you think it was effective?

f) Evaluate the lead. What made it effective or ineffective? (Don’t identify the type of lead, just evaluate it.

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