About a month ago, my teacher told us that we were going to write feature articles about a topic we already knew a lot about. It took me a long time to come up with a topic, but eventually I decided to do my feature article on art. At first I had a hard time thinking of a message because there was so much I could do, anyone can do art, or art is very unique, but I decided for my message I would do: there is so much more to art than you might think. I did this because I feel like when some people think of art they just think it is really boring but when you actually think about it, it can be fun. That is why I chose my message. 

I think the most effective thing I did was using examples and comparisons in my writing. For example, I described what it feels like to use watercolors. After I edited and revised my feature article, it was time to come up with my titles and subtitles, for me this was a more challenging part of the process to do. I chose to use alliteration because all the other titles and strategies didn’t work out for me. They didn’t work out for me because all of my other titles I created included my subtitle in them, so I decided to make my title Amazing Art, and I originally made my subtitle There is so much more to art than you may think, but then I realized that my subtitle was my message so I changed it to A hobby that so many people overlook.

I am most proud of how long I got it to be, because when I was writing my feature article I had a hard time coming up with how I was going to format it, and how it was going to look. Writing a feature article was a very different experience than writing a personal narrative because when I wrote my personal narrative I wrote a draft, edited, revised it, and I was done. But for the feature article I wrote my draft, and then I still had to make the format and make it a feature article, not an all about. 

When I was doing the format of the feature article, I first thought about how much text I had. I realized that I had so much text and had to have more text on a page than pictures and text features, so I settled on one to two pictures on a page. After that I had to figure out how to fit all my text, I finished it up and edited all my spelling and grammar. Overall this Feature article unit was a very different experience than personal narratives, and I think I did a good job writing my feature article!