Centre for Online Education - DCE- 02: Feature Writing

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DCE- 02: Feature Writing
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Overview

Equips you with the skills and knowledge to write engaging and informative feature articles for various publications

Duration	16 weeks
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Mode of learning	Online
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Credential	Certificate

DCE- 02: Feature Writing
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Highlights

Earn a diploma from IGNOU
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DCE- 02: Feature Writing
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Course details

Who should do this course?

Professionals working in media organizations or freelance journalists aiming to improve their feature writing abilities for newspapers, magazines, websites, or broadcast outlets
Editors responsible for overseeing feature articles and content creators looking to produce engaging and compelling feature stories for their platforms

What are the course deliverables?

Learn how feature writing differs from news reporting and focuses on in-depth exploration of a topic, personality, or event, often with a creative and engaging style
Explore various feature writing categories, such as personality profiles, travel writing, human interest stories, investigative features, and reviews
Learn how to find unique and interesting angles on current events or topics of general interest
Learn how to structure your feature articles like compelling narratives, using techniques like hooks, strong leads, and captivating details to hold your reader's attention
Gain the ability to gather information effectively through research and conduct interviews that provide depth and insight to your features

More about this course

Any feature writer must be aware of his/her reader's interests as well as the demands of the publication for which s/he is writing
In this course, you will receive guidance on how to write book reviews, travel articles and interviews. You will also learn to handle sensitive human issues such as writing about women

DCE- 02: Feature Writing
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Swayam
Curriculum

Week–1

Identifying Significant Topics

Week–2

Investigation and personal Interview

Week–3

Familiarity with allied subject matter

Week–4

Writing about women, drawing conclusions

Week–5

Reviewer’s integrity

Week–6

Acquaintance with other works on the subject

Week–7

Assessment of a book under review

Week–8

Evaluative judgement

Week–9

Background material

Week–10

Locating an appropriate subject

Week–11

Technique of travel writing

Week–12

Allied material-photographs and sketches

Week–13

Preliminaries

Week–14

Preparing questions

Week–15

Use of interview equipment

Week–16

Editing and organization

DCE- 02: Feature Writing
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Swayam
Faculty details

Dr. Rajesh Kumar

Rajesh Kumar, PhD., an alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, has taught for almost two decades in a college in University of Delhi, New Delhi before joining the faculty of English, SOH, IGNOU. He has a PhD in English Literature on “Dalit Writings and Aboriginal Writings: Convergences & Divergences” and an MPhil in English Literature on “The dialectics of Australian Aboriginal Identity in Aboriginal Women’s Autobiographies” from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is a recipient of UGC Research Award (2016-18) during which he worked on a project on “Santali Dance-Songs of Jharkhand: Contextualizing Art & Culture’. He has also been an Associate (2018-20) at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Rashtrapati Niwas, Shimla. He has authored four books: Santal Folk-Dance Songs: Contextualizing Art &Culture; Dalits Vs Aboriginal Australians: Convergences& Divergences; Of Dalit and Australian Aboriginal Writings & Culture; Australian Aboriginal Autobiographies: Reading Identity, Aboriginality and Belongingness; and edited one Volume: Literaria: An International Journal of New Literature across the World, special issue on Literatures of Margin, Bahri Publications: New Delhi.vol.2, no.1, Jan-Jun 2012. ISSN:2229-4600. He has published many scholarly articles in national and international journals on various subjects and issues relating to literatures of margin and presented several papers in national and International Conferences. His areas of interest include Culture St