COM 408 - Feature Writing and Freelancing

Description:
Students will learn the skills needed to conceive, report and write a wide range of feature stories for newspapers, magazines, and online publications, as well as how to succeed as a freelance writer.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: COM 226.

Credits: (5)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Research and generate feature story ideas and develop unique angles
Conduct effective interviews for feature stories.
Use observation as a reporting tool to capture scenes and anecdotes to make stories more vivid to the reader.
Use narrative techniques to construct narrative stories.
Write features about places.
Write profiles, both long and short.
Write features based on issues and trends.
Find markets for their work and effectively pitch stories to those markets.

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
5/6/19

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:
Winter Locations: Ellensburg