Feature story

A feature story is a piece of non-fiction writing about news covering a single topic in detail.

[2] Unlike news reports that mainly focus in factual evidence, feature stories tend to be subjective.

Features vary in style, focus, and structure but overall, maintain an entertaining tone rather than strictly informative.

Like literature, the feature story relies upon creativity and subjectivity to make an emotional connection with the readers.

[3] Unlike straight news, the feature story serves the purpose of entertaining the readers, in addition to informing them.

[4] Feature stories are usually written in an active style, with an emphasis on lively, entertaining prose.

While the distinction between published features and news is often clear, when approached conceptually there are few hard boundaries between the two.

[10] Characteristics that attribute to feature stories include exploring a topic or issue that is of importance to the writer(s).

- Benton Patterson 1986 [6]The Pavilion describes this structure as a "roller coaster" effect where the reader is purposely prepared for the focus statement and taken along a path describing characteristics, complications/conflicts, and then gently given the resolution with descriptions at the very end .

The body of article can be broken down into smaller sections that allow the readers to identify complications and digest the resolution proposed by the writer.