1. Describe the lead of the article. How are most readers likely to react to this introduction to the article? What, if any, curiosities will this lead help to arose?
2. A lead in a feature article of this type can help provide focus (or angle) on a particular aspect of a person's life. Does this lead accomplish this?
3. A feature on a person often serves to highlight and explain the specialness or uniqueness of a particular person's life. What special or unique aspects of the subject is featured.
4. Feature article about people generally incorporate many direct quotes from featured persons themselves. As a result, the reader has a sense of having spoken with the person him or herself. The quotes generally serve to reveal the person's specific thoughts or feelings, often kind of thoughts of feelings that people may not reveal to strangers in casual conversation. The quotes help to know person on deeper level.
5. This type of feature often includes description or concrete details to help the reader reach his own conclusion about the featured person and his or her life. For example, the writer may choose to describe the physical appearance of the person or their environment.
6. Personal profiles features are usually less objective than news stories, but more objective than opinion piece on an editorial page. Find one passage in the article (not a quote) that you think is completely objective- just facts.
7. The conclusion of this type of article may serve to leave the reader with some final impression of the person featured. Find atechnique to do that. If it doesn't have a final impression, than what does it do?
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