Summary :

- What Is Writing " Feature "

Daniel R. Williamson in his book " Feature Writing for Newspaper " mentions that thefeature is a creative story, sometimes subjective designed to entertain and inform readers about an event, situation or aspect of life.

According Septiawan Santana, techniques and writing features is something unexpected and not selurus regular news writing. What the author is faced by a daze looking for news value of an event to be appointed into the feature .

Williamson said the elements that have feature is the creativity, subjectivity, informative, entertaining and not limited by time. Writing feature also must be original and descriptive. So, it could be in a writing features there are a lot of information. However, the difference is that the writing must be submitted with an interesting style of writing style or otherwise of interest with information that is not too much.

Edward J. Friedlander and John Lee reveal two things that cause the nature of the originalfeatures. First, the original is formed because the presentation is not limited and the second is due to charge the content that contains the values of human interest as the value of news that will be sold to the public.

Writing feature descriptive because it also tends to differ from the regular news that its strength lies in the objectivity, these stories feature precisely weighted to how to arouse the reader's imagination of what is raised in a literary theme.

Featured newspapers or magazines is one type of writing features which have two characteristics, namely following the news headlines that appear in the pages of major newspapers and major events contained in the paper and author who is pressed deadline . This type is also calleda sidebar, the text which supports or behind the headlines. Both are the types of features are made with the characteristics of timeless meaning of writing does not follow quickly the newspaper had reported the incident. Journalists can be more relaxed in writing his work with the consequences of his work was detailed and more stylish features in its delivery.

Activities of journalism as an art of writing also developed through his work on literary style of writing features . Within this scope, the literature used to develop a form of writing news and views. In the news , literature is used as a tool for the development of the factual side of human interest and views used as a suggestion to entice readers with an easy writing style, fluid and simple.

In essence, literary style make the feature a new force for the mass media to other media mensiasati a faster delivery of information.

Historically, Feature initially just be a form of writing that reveals other points of view of the fact that news is not likely to be discussed in-depth in straight news . Then in development, thefeature makes the mystery of humanity in an event to inspire and awaken the reader.

Septiawan Santana mengimpikasikan use of literary journalism reporting line of thinking makes the report feature has another penetrating power. This is because the feature is based on the idea to facilitate the reader in the know and identify an issue or event.

- Feature Writing Skills (Writing Skills Feature)

Conditions that must be owned by the author features, among others:

- The ability to capture reader interest

- Joy and faithful to write about the human story

- Have the ability to stir, stimulating, exciting and entertaining readers emotions.

Then, sensory acuity shaped 'curiosity' is also absolutely owned by a journalist. Strength observed, the habit is not simply accept what he saw and the desire to explore questions that have no answers in either event is a good base as well.

In one incident, a lot of human interest that can be appointed as a theme writing feature is good. Septiawan translate these values into categories: something strange, unusual and unnatural; mystery, natural disaster or calamity, romance and sex, adventure and heroism, the competition, small children, teenagers, parents, fauna, hobbies and recreation, business, household activities and professional life, social welfare, success, and happiness.

Feature has other powers in relation to the news story . Feature news can be a tool that can support the power of writing. This is reflected when the authors point out the targets and effects jurnalismenya writing. Generally, the feature took the position and lift the stories of "seasonal" such as: party people, the local character sketch, anniversary celebrations and others.

Charnley (1965) reveals the story features can not be obtained from places that are formal. Examples are the events that had been predictable and incidence pattern format.

Material human interest news items will not exceed the news story . The material may only be able to go beyond the news story when the feature is used as a technique of presenting the news in the investigative and interpretive narration. Therein lies the function of literary excellence in relation to the development of news reporting. Where the development of "news-feature story" so not only focused on delivering objective news, but also focused on news presentation techniques.

Feature and closely related articles. This is reflected in the form of feature articles as one type of article views in journalistic writing. Septiawan opinion journalism develop the structure of writing up to reach a depth of 'intimacy' certain. In the writing sections but the overall shape only forward models that already exist.

Its uniqueness actually looks in the creativity of journalists in developing parts-per part of his writings. Journalists will develop a part-perbagian using injection results in the creation of literary rules and a sense of emotive writing the article a feature that reveals the human side must shuffle the reader to read what he wrote.

Feature is also familiar with the emotions or sentiments of humanity. In certain calculations, the report featured more playing the "humanity" in a way to attract, focus, and give a touch of pleasure to some readers. Attention humanity be excited by the stories of love, hate, curiosity, fear, humor, or themes strange that "why not".

The structure of " Feature "

The structure features consist of lead , body and closing. However, Roy Paul Nelson in the book " feature and Article "link relations between features with the study of literary journalism in sections but the journalistic writing. According to him, the influence of literature has adopted the structure of the writing of features into a sequence of elements of the title, lead , body and closing.

In writing, the title is the initial towing reader's interest. Readers are curious when I read the title of a strange will try to start reading leads her. Titles vary with headlines news. Titles do not need to follow a set of rules that bind headlines . The feature title is not in the form of summary writing.The interests of the title in the feature only as penggugah readers and attract attention of readers.

The title is divided into various types, including:

- Title from the point of view of content

For example : 6.5 Unemployed in West Java,

- Title of how to

For example : Smart For Time, What Way?

- Title 5W +1 H

For example : WHO = Ian Antono More Like Sedan, what = Education Fund also Enjoyed Corruptor, WHERE = Fire in New Market, Pls = Year 2000, the Millennium Mobile Century,why = Religious Issues Often of Interest Powers cite this as a tool, how = Arterial Stiff? Eat To-To

- Title superlative

example : Diane Olivia, Women's prettiest Universe

- The title asks

For example : Wear Glasses So tacky?

- Title from the point of view of form

For example : Nyoblos Sih Easy, which is important money ...?

Things that need to be considered in making the title, namely:

rhythm (rhyme), humor, pooling of contrast and irony, the category of the Take Off (a kind of parody of book titles, advertising slogans, TV programs or other popular expressions), blurb(the term for the row sentence statement placed before or after the title serves to explain the title, not to confirm it again.

In writing the feature , the lead became a standard for writing news and features . Lead is made to entice the reader to follow, smooth narrative and presentation of the story.

The types of leads , including: Lead summary, Lead humor, Lead narrative, Leaddescriptive, Lead quote, Lead question, Lead surprising question, Lead surprises, Lead generalization,Lead informative, Lead appoint directly, Lead teaser, Lead puzzles, Lead comparison, Lead art, and the last Lead compound.

After writing the lead, then we create a body of writing. This is a reference in making bodies for writing is to keep the reader does not get bored and use of quotations.

Quote gave explanations that reveal various things authentic reports on various subjects.Each quote shall represent the people who express it artukulasi expertise. Here's how to compose posts in the body :

- Paragraph beginning with strong materials to encourage readers

- Using conjunctive economically. Including ordinary definition as much as possible

- polish the difficult and tedious with human interst.

- Excerpts expert

- Simple in analogy

- Describe the statistical material

- Background

Besides the point that a writer should pay attention to unity, coherence and emphasis of his writings.

Next, the cover becomes a most important in a post feature . Authors should be able to summarize the key points in the final or present new facts as the end of the story.

The types of cover, namely:

summary, the climax, cut back / flash back , a thread model, narrative,

descriptions, combined (informative, summary and surprise), and without

settlement.