Intr与oduction to Feature Writing 英语新闻采写.ppt

Introduction to Feature Writing ;What is a feature story?特稿/通讯 ;What is a good profile story? ;访潮汕麻风病康复村：这里的一天和一辈子没有太大差别;2011年11月26日，普宁麻风病康复村，林和阿伯吃力地用残存手掌托着竹篮里的劈柴(单朴/摄);What is a good profile? ;Observing, interviewing, and notetaking are all techniques commonly used by investigative reporters, social scientists, and naturalists. It shares many features with autobiographical and biographical writing—you can use narrative, anecdote, description Once you’ve acquired your materials, the challenge is to analyze and synthesize what you’ve gathered, and to give it shape in an article that worth peoples attention. ;Profile如何开头;Okawachi’s speech fires up talks on racial discrimination in Albany;When she was 14, Jewel Okawachi and her family were rounded up with several other Japanese families in Albany, ordered to take just what they could carry, and sent to a concentration camp in Arizona during World War II. Now at the age of 79, Okawachi is a City Councilmember of Albany, has served once as Albany’s mayor and won a number of honors for her service to the city where she has lived for nearly eight decades.;Albanys Ｎewly-elected Ｖice Ｍayor; Newly-elected Vice Mayor Joanne Wile lives with her partner Nancy, four dogs and 16 birds in a one-story house in Albany. 62-year-old Wile was a social worker for decades. She also sees herself as an environmentalist, a community activist and a lesbian who is ready to “battle any form of discrimination”.;How to write the beginning of a profile? ;导语： On weekdays, 69-year-old Osha Neumann works as a defense attorney 律师 for homeless people at a Berkeley law center. On weekends, he changes into his torn jacket and builds brilliant sculptures at the Albany Bulb, a former landfill 垃圾场 that pokes a mile into the San Francisco Bay.;Neumann has created a number of impressive sculptures at the Bulb in the past ten years, using styrofoam泡沫, driftwood浮木 and scrap metal 废铁collected at the waterfront. One of them, a female statue called the Wat