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• Use anecdotes and direct quotes to add variety to your feature

• Pick a tense and stick to it! If you start off in the past tense, don’t switch to the present tense half way through

• Be active! By this, we mean write using the active voice rather than the passive voice as it is more dynamic and has more of an impact

• Don’t forget about your readers as you write.

• Use clichés sparingly - most people find them irritating!

• There’s more than one way to tell a story! Don’t restrict yourself to words, but rather think how you can tell parts of your story in pictures, illustrations and graphs

• Once you have a draft of your feature article, leave it alone for a while.

• Proofread your finished article to weed out any mistakes and errors.

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