Kraft 11: Outlining
Kraft 12: Writing it Out
My reading score: I read 100 percent of the assigned chapters carefully.
- Kraft (2019) says, “To outline or not outline is a continuing debate among writers, and there is truly not a correct answer” (p. 91).
- “Outlining your story may be the way to go for you, which would mean identifying the nut graph and then ordering the body by subject matter, so you can see how the parts and pieces fit together” (Kraft, 2019, p. 94).
- Kraft (2019) says that although news articles arrange their information by most important to least important, features are written to be read from beginning to end (p. 100).
- The best way to understand a feature’s structure is “understanding how all aspects of the story are tied together and contained within the hourglass framework” (Kraft, 2019, p. 101).
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“Outlining your story may be the way to go for you, which would mean identifying the nut graph and then ordering the body by subject matter, so you can see how the parts and pieces fit together” (Kraft, 2019, p. 94). This is good advice as the nut graph is the most important part of the story. By identifying the nut graph, the rest of the article will fit like puzzle pieces. A feature’s structure is different than a regular article—so an outline will prove helpful in crafting the feature. I will remember this when I write my feature. – Ellen Batty
References
Kraft, N. (2019). Writing fabulous features. The Ohio State University Pressbooks.
Ellen Batty 