This course is designed to introduce students to information-gathering, interviewing, computer-assisted reporting, and narrative techniques pertinent to feature writing. The course also explores how to target a feature story to a specific audience and how to submit feature articles for publication.

• 14 assignments (e-mail and online submission available)
• no exam
• Required textbooks: Bragg, Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg, 2000. ISBN 0-375-72552-0 Goldstein, The Associated Press Stylebook, current edition. Hay, The Essential Feature: Writing for Magazines and Newspapers, 1990. ISBN 0-231-06887-5 Writer's Market, current edition. A dictionary and a thesaurus.
• Course Materials: MC 4382L study guide
• Instructor: Susan Weill, Ph.D.
• Tuition:
  
• Print-based: $483
• Online: $513 (This cost includes the online course fee.)

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To access the course website, contact the Office of Correspondence Studies. A $10-per-credit-hour online fee applies. Those taking MC 4382L online need not purchase the MC 4382L study guide.