Feature

Featured is a light writing.

Featured is a creative writing that is primarily designed to inform while entertaining about an event, situation or aspect of one's life.Wiliamson (1975)

Featured is the complete essay lempang nonfiction is not news in the mediamassuncertain length, presented a living as a disclosure of the power of creativity, sometimes with a touch of subjectivity of the author of the events, situations, aspects of life with an emphasis on humane appeal for the purpose of inform, entertain, educate and convince the reader. Andi Baso Mappatoto (1992) ,

Mc. Kinney, further reinforce the more typical sense of composition (feature) as an inscription that are beyond the straight news writing that is where the main handle from 5W and 1H ignored.

Assegaf concluded that the essay is not subject to the typical technical writing and presentation of the facts such as news and is lightly hinted by providing entertainment. (Assegaf f, 1991:55) .

The particular feature lies in the element

creativity (in its creation),

informative (content),

entertaining (writing).

Thus if a writer is able to meet the criteria mentioned above, it is certain he could write this feature.

Assegaf quoted Wolseley opinion that dividing the distinctive bouquet of the six types namely:

typical essay that is historical,

typical essay biography / character,

typical essay travel / travelog,

typical essay that is teaching expertise "how to do it",

essay is typical of scientific / science.

According to Ahmad Bahar (1995),

Featured divided in three parts:

First, the news feature .

News feature is closely related to the particular event that actual. The presentation revealed various causes of events or things

that affect the emergence of the incident.

So in a news feature that is necessary is what (what) and how (how) the occurrence of such events. Meanwhile, why (why) these events do not need dicerita about. For example, on 4 November 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was killed by a student named Yigal Amir.

Second, the feature of knowledge .

Posts like this are usually presented with enough weight. Feature writing is characterized by the depth of discussion and objectivity of the views expressed. So that kind of feature of this knowledge will contain data and information adequately. In simple terms can be explained that the feature of knowledge not only explain the question why (why) and how (how) an event that occurred. This feature supplements banyakdimuat in variousletterreputable newspapers and magazines or in a special rubric.

Third, human interest features .

That kind of feature that tells more situations that happen to people by presenting papers that touch and flicked or tingling feeling. Examples of such features include a story about someone who survived the plane crash or the sinking of Ferry, landslide-stricken families, about a man who earned the Kalpataru, and others.

Feature generally rely more on plot events, circumstances or events also process events, then the presentation must be clear and logical. Writing techniques that can be used isstylewriting such as writing short stories. Only difference, if it contains material of fiction short stories while in the typical essay contains the actual facts and real.